The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-25
CUBAN ATROCITIES.
British Refugee in New York
Brings Tales Of Cruelty.
Rapine and Murder.

NEW YORK, Nov. %, 1sss.-wnliam
Brown. a subject of Great Britain. re-
Gently released from Cuban prison.
where he had spent month for the al
legged offence of shouting in the streets
OF Havana "Cuban Libre," and who was
week ago expelled by order of Captain
General Weyler. arrived here today on
the steamship City of washington. To
a reporter CT the United Associated
Presses Brown said today that his treat
ment by the Spanish authorities was
brutal IN the extreme. He declared that
i ne had not had papers proving MIN 10
yet been liberated He thought from
Spain. . Aos' W
Mr.. Brown declared that M nolifical
prisoner in Cuba knew what he was arr
rested for until he had been in a prison
Ssli Ior some time As to his own case
H Hs uoes not remember having given the
Spanlards any just cause for his arrest
ana incarceration The fact that he Is
Brltish subject, he thinks, saved him
faom 4, e. peing shot to death. He had been
route to England, his home. Mr.. Brnwn
5aiked freely regarding Spanish cuelties
Some of his stories are almost incredible
ne sag tnat man named Honore
L1alle had been arrested at the instigafion
OF q personal enemy. particular friend
oI t5eneral Weyler, and although he wa:
eecIdreu innocent of the charge truuaped
up against him by jury, ne IS still hel5
a prisoner and his case has been referred
70 Madrid. General Weyler showed. his
qlspleasure of the court that declared
as,5e as1l5le innocent by sending them into the
nele as a punishment Mr. Laine is a
rrenchInan and is trying to get his case
ment. t,- = =
He declared that Wevler has had NAM,
foreigners arrested, whose cases have. new
er seen the light of day because of the
spanish system of keeping their arrest
ana confnement secret The poor Cu-
pan, SAID Brown, gets short shift IT
IS sufficient to know that he is a synl-
pathizer IN the cause to condemn him.
HIS trial is farce. His conviction is
an absolute certainty, and by the first
steamer he is sent to Chafarina or some
other penal colony.
Here is q story related by a prisoner
row confined in the Heptoron Prison.
Colonel Molina, in one Of his recent
raids while endeavoring to locate the in
surgent hospital. met a 14-year boy
Carlos Hernanda. He demanded from the
boy did not know. Col Molina struck
him on the head with his revolver caus-
ing the blood to flow. A repetition of the
question eliciting the same reply resulted
IN the boy s eye being forced from It's
socket by a blow from the Spanish Off
GERS pistol Not satisfied with this. he
struck the boy again, killing him. and
undoubtedly reported gallant victory
This same butcher Molina murdered a
Whoie family the same day, Gonzalez by
name, for refusing TO inform him of the
direction taken by the insurgents These
acts OF murder and of cruelty are in
marked contrast to the Christian spirit
shown and practiced by General Calix to
Garcia, the insurgent chief, who sent the
wounded Spaniard prisoners captured
from Cuaiularo Puerto PrinceDi
La Lucha" in its edition of November
q informs the people of Cuba that Colonel
Fendeviela surprised and destroyed a rebel
hospital at Campo FFlorida. There were
eighteen beds undoubtedly occupied at
the time, and as there was no mention OF
prisoners it is believed that the sick were
| murdered. Reliable information from
q party who had Just re-
turned from the Pinar del Rio
district. was received few days ago in
Havana. 1t states that the reign of death
and pillage was well under way there,
men, women and children being outraged
and shot down in their homes or wher-
ever found. Most of them were pacificos
their only offense being that they did not
bend quickly enough to Weyler's soldiers
by removing into the towns where they
were almost sure to Starve to death as
Spain's Captain General was known to
have no facilities for housing and feeding
them. This has all occurred since Weyler
took the field. 1t looks as If he wished to
have boe1ntiful revenge for having been
driven from his comfortable quarters in