The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-06
WEYLER'S CRUELTY.
Slaughter and Torture o.
Prisoners in Havana
Thrown to Sharks

HAVANA, Oct. 8, via Tampa, Fla,
Oct. 6, 1Ss6.-Since September % the rebels
remain in the outskirts OF GUIANA
taco, and the yibora beyond
Jesus del Monte, Havana SUI
burbs) firing at the forts of both places.
This is reported by Spanish officers, but
not published in the papers. The censor
ship is stricter than ever, a proof hat
things are not favorable to the Govern
ment. The Office of Chief of Police. cor
responding to Colonel Of the Army, has
cause no colonel of the army has been
willing to accept the Office unde the con
ditions of the dishonesty and cruelty inn
posed by Weyler. Awful crimes ere
committed every night by order Of La
Barrier and Governor Perrua, of the same
type as LIE Barrier. Every night at the
police headquarters, some prisoners. are
taken out and put on the books as re-
by one "colador'' police d~elegate), n
two policemen, and taken between ane
n three o'clock A. M. to a landing place
at the entrance ofsthe harbor, two blocks
from the police headquarters. Once there
the prisoners and the three policemen step
in a boat and start off; they don't land
anywhere, but after a while the officers
come back without the prisoners. This
action has been watched night after night.
From the first of September TO the 18th,
GO prisoners have disappeared in this
way, own OuISlQe OI2IHS MOTTO. Inc
two last ones were drowned September %.
They were an old man I'M a young man.
On stepping in the boat, the old mar
asked where they were bound to. The
young man said. Why don't YOU know?
We are going to be murdered"
The policeman gave the young man a
blow which knocked his eye out, slapped
and kicked him, then started and never
prisoners are taken out and drowned in
the same way. The reason why they are
taken out of the harbor is on account of
the immense number Of sharks which get
hold of the bodies and leave no trace.
The families of officers living in Moro
Castle and the Cabanas have made a COM
plant of the lamentations INK cries they
hear late in the night. The cries are attri-
out. On the 23d of September a fisherman
notified the police of the presence of two
dead bodies lying on the seashore near to
the Moro. These bodies were dressed like
country people, about fifty and twenty
years of age. The older one showed two
bullet wounds on the back. five bayonet
wounds in the stomach and chest and
throat. The young man had q bullet
wound in the loin and several bayonet
wounds in. the body and throat. Their
hands were tied behind their backs and
bodies seemed to have been in the water
for some time and pu~trefaction had be-
gun. The bodies were witnessed by a
number Of people who were driven away
DS Spanish SOluiCES. lie HOuHQS We're
made by Mauser bullets.
al Thursday night Brombin, Cara de
Guaya and Sooa, confined as suspects,
were taken from prison at night, carried
a few miles outside of Havana and shot
to death. These men were noted on the
police books as released.
! The news of the bomb loaded with four
teen pounds of dynamite. found under a
gas main was a fake. It wassa trick of
Chief OF Police La Barrier. so stupidity
managed that. the. truth was soon discov-
cred and every one made fun of it. Two
men have been arrested as having placed
La Barrera's dynamite bomb. They are
kept at the police station and tortured
to make them confess. The torture con-
sists of feeding them with dry Goldfish
and not allowing them any drink No
other food is allowed. and they die of
starvation if they refuse to eat the sailed
cod. This is given asApositive, and is said
70 have been the means employed by
Weyler in Barcelona, and never failed to
produce the desired effect.
Both parties, Spanish and rebels, are
burning sugar mills. Two weeks ago
were burned in Matanzas Prov
ince. In Havana Provinc all are being
IN Tapaste, near Havana, thirty Span
iards were overpowered and killed by the
rebels. Troops came too late to the res
cue. but entered the town ard killed
and unarmed people, among
them the Mayor, a Spaniard.
The Cuban leader Laso took the town
of Las Canas and burned most of 1t.