St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-16
IN THE TROPICAL CLINE FROM
WHICH CHARLES l.. BRACk-
EFT RETURNS.
NOT LIVING IN LUXURY.
INTERESTING TALK REGARDING
THE LAND OF THE REVGLU-
TION.
LEAD BULLET-PRooF MYSTERY
Surrounding n Gathering at the
Sheriff's Ofiice-News of the
Mill City.

Charles L. Bracket, son of VIM
Bracket, who, with Ed Morse, has
been sojourning in Central America for
several months, arrived in the city
yesterday. Mr.. Bracket is in excel
lent health, and thinks highly of the
Southern country. He evidently knows
good deal more about the Guaranty
Loan man than he cares to tell the
newspapers, for in an interview yes
terday he talked all around the subject
of the missing financier without saying
much about him.
Both Menage and George Morse"
he said, have had the hardest kind
of a time since they became exiles
Neither of them had any money, and
they have had a rather sorry time
making a living. Mrs. Menage may
have brought her husband some money
from the disposal of their house in
Minneapolis, but beyond that he did
not have anything. I found Mrs. Men
age and her child living in the plainest
style in the city of Guatemala in
single room. 1 do not know just where
Menage is at present, and 1 am not
willing to tell you what has been his
manner of life Or his whereabouts
since he reached Guatemala These
stories about Menage and Morse hav-
ing extensive 'fincas,' as they call the
plantations down there, are absolutely
without foundation. George Morse has
made a living and nothing more, tax
ing little contracts or anything that
came his way that seemed to have a
few dollars in it,
In speaking of the revolutions, that
seem to be the national pastime of the
Latin republics, Mr.. Bracket said:
I'VE were down there while the
bloody revolution occurred which
drove the Ezeta brothers out of San
Salvador. They were two fiends, whom
nothing but a revolution could depose.
Carlos EZeta raised himself to the
presidency by treachery to President
Melendez, grand. old man, who had
made him everything he was in the
world. His brother, Antonio, who is
now in San Francisco, is an inhuman
monster, who committed such out
RACES on women and children that they
can scarce be mentioned. So deter
mined were the revoiutionists, and so
just their cause, that, under the leader
ship of Rafael Gutierrez, though con-
fronted by a splendid army Of Is, 900
men, they held the city of Santa Anna
with 1900 soldiers and made vain the
DOaSt OF EZeta that when the rebelllOuS
city had fallen he would surrender the
women to his followers, burn the city
to the ground, and on the ruins raise
a cross, with the inscription: Here
Stood Santa Anna He was defeated
after a heroic siege, in which the
women of the town carried rifles by
the side of their husbands, and, like
them, fought like fiends. The slaugh-
ter was horrible. Three thousand men
We're killed on the field of battle, and
for days the stencil of the dead bodies
that surrounded the beleaguered city
was such that it was impossible for
the living to eat. Antonio was COM
pletely beaten and took to fight,
though he had in his command all the
daredevil soldiers-of-fortune Amer
leans he could find in the country and
Honduras. One American in his serv-
ice led a charge of 800 men, but so
fierce was the fire of the revolutionists
that but $50 returned to their COM
rades. Both the Ezetas fled the coun-
try, Carlos taking with him immense
wealth.