The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-26

until the Federal building was opened this morning. Then they were marched up from the Barge office.
 The men detained on the Bermuda were kept there until 10:S0 o'clock this morning, when the tugboats Edward M. Timmins and George L. Garlich brought them to the Barge office in the custody of the marshal and his men,
 As soon as Marshal Mccarthy got to the Barge office he ordered the release of the tugboat w. J. McCaldin. Neither of the tugboats nor the Bermuda was seized by the government officers. The term used Is detained"
 BERMUDA TO BE DETAINED"
 The Bermuda, for instance, will be de- tained until the authorities are satis- fled that the plans of the expedition have been frustrated, The ammunition and firearms, however, were seized and will be held,
 When the men from the Bermuda were landed at the Barge office, had they wished to do so 1t would have been an easy matter for them to have es- capped from custody.
 As soon as they had been rounded up in the building United States Dis trict Attorney Macfarlane prepared the papers to have the leaders taken before United States Commissioner Shields. The section under which the raid was made is No. 5,2S6, known as the Feder- al neutrality act, passed by congress on April ?, 1880.
 ONLY LEADERS TO BE PROSECUT-
 ED.
 ,s+, at farlane said that he intended to prose- cute only the leaders. This would in- clude about half dozen of those under arrest. The others. he said, would probably be discharged from custody. He was anxious to get rid of the men.
 $4,OOO IN COLD CAPTURED.
 When Marshal Mccarthy arrived he had four bags of gold amounting in all to $4 000 which had also been cap tured.
 BAGS OF SPANISH GOLD.
 Each of the four bags of gold was marked $1,O0O. The money was in Span ish soles and pesos. Tags on the bags showed that they had been put up by Handy & Harmon, brokers, at g Mas Sau street.
 The marshal also had nautical instru- ments which he had taken from the Bermuda. These included a boxed com pass and boxed seXtant, besides log book and bundle of charts. During the morning many friends of the Cuban prisoners and supporters of the Junta gathered in the corridors The door of the room in which the men were detained was kept open, and the crowd was permitted to look at the prisoners. The guard, however, would not allow anyone 10 talk to them.
 COST OF THE EXPEDITION. Among those in the corridor was A. C., Gonzalez, a lawyer, at 35 Broadway. He estimated that the expedition had cost about $1oO,OOO The Cubans, he said, were by no means discouraged by the present disappointment in carrying out their plans. There was no way, he said, of discovering who had given the information to the representatives of Spain.
 SPIES AMONG THE CUBANS. q am almost sure,'' he said, that there are at least half dozen Spanish spies in that room with the prisoners. No one can pick them out and their identity can only be learned by a chance incident or information from outside sources. The Cubans can play that game, too.'
 COMMANDER OF THE BERMUDA.
 The man who gave his name as Cap tain Hughes was supposed to be the captain of the Bermuda, and the Span iards were particularly interested in his capture. He is alleged to have been the owner of the Laurada, which is said to have successfully landed arms in the Island of Cuba,
 THE PRISONERS DISCHARGED. All of the prisoners at the Barge of- 1 flee and at the Federal building, except about ten were discharged from GUS tody at 12:30 o'clock. In the batch of Isixty-seven at the Federal building only | four were held for examination. | Those held at the Barge office were detained only until the marshal could decide upon one or two to be arraigned with the four in his office. l LEADERS HELD FOR EXAM1NA- TION.
 | The four leaders held for examination were General Garcia, Captain Hughes, IIl. IeulA etllu III. IT. Ilei iHdltltI.- Ilclt examination was set down for o'clock | this afternoon.
 l At the hearing before United States | Commissioner Shields this afternoon l General Garcia, Captain Hughes and Benjamin Guerra were each held in $1, 800 bail for examination on the 18th l inst
 | The Cubans were happy when told that they might go away. They were not permitted to see General Garcia or the others. Captain Brabazon, who was in charge of the Bermuda, was detain- | ed, but he declared that he knew noth- | ing about the expedition. He had been hired, he said, to sail the ship to Ja- maica
 1 After the Cubans had been let go Marshal Mccarthy authorized the fol- lowing statement made by Deputy Ken nedy, showing how the capture was made, and that the authorities were acting under orders from Secretary Ol- ney at Washington:
 l THE MARSHAL'S STORY OF THE
 CAPTURE 1 "On February 21,' Kennedy said, "the marshal received an intimation that the supporters of the Junta were about to fit up an expedition bound for Cuba. An Investigation was made and the re- port found to be true. On February 2 Attorney General Olney telegraphed that the Bermuda, lying off Liberty