The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-15
MILITARY LED BY MONSTERS.
TWO CUBANs SLAIN IN COLD BLOOD
IN CIENFUEGOS.

c0I. Jnu Not Having Any Evidence
AGAINST Them Orders Them Kill
cd AnyVvay-Dragged From Prison
ot Night and ChOked TO Death.
Captain General WeyIer Appoints
Euu Military Governor of Matan-
Eas.
rorna. Fla, March 14.-The following
,stter addressed to the American press has
bsen received in this city By mail from Gu
ba. "If the government that unhappily
rlles the destinies of this unfortunate coun-
,rv should be true to the most rudimentary
rrinciples of justice and morality, Col.
mil. who has been recently appointed mil
,tsrv governor of Matanzas province,
should be in the galleys among criminals.
II Is but a short time since he was reliev-
od nv Gen. Martinez CamDos, of the mill
tarv command at Cienfuegos as he had not
once engaged any of the insurgent forces,
hut vented all his ferocious instincts
against innocent and inoffensive peasants.
I'm Yaguaramas, a small town near
Cienfuegos he arrested as suspected spies'
Mr.. Antonio Morejon, an honest and hard
working man, and Mr.. Ygnacio Chapi,
who is well advanced in years, and almost
hind. Not being able to prove the charge
against them as they We're innocent, he
ordered Mai. Mareno of the Barcelona
battalion, doing garrison duty at Yagu-
ramas. TO kill them with the machete and
have them buried Immediately. Maj Ma
reno answered that he was a gentleman
who had come to fight for the integrity of
his country, and not to commit murder.
This dfspleased the colonel sorely, but un-
fortunately a Volunteer sergeant with six
members were willing to execute the order
of the colonel and Morejon and Chapi were
murdered without pity.
''The order of Col JUN was executed IN
the most cruel manner II @ n9rrleS ,ns one me 5e
ways of Col. JUL, on being awakened at
2 o. clock in the morning and notlned Dy
the Volunteer chief OF guard that ne I1.l an9 q
Moreion had to go out anticipated Mhat
was 20 come and told his companion 70
cry out for help as soon as tney Woulo
he taken out of the fort They did so,
but those who were to execute the order
of Col JUL, we're neither moved or weak
ened in their purpose; on the contrary, at
the first screams of Chapi and MoreJon
they threw a lasso over their heads ana
pulled at it by the ends. In teW mo-
ments they fell TO the ground, choked TO
death. They were dragged on the eartn
without pity TO the place where they We're
buried. All this bloody scene was wit
messed by Col. JUL from a short distance.
providence has not willed that so much
iniquity should remain hidden forever
In the hurry, the grave where these two
innocent men were buried was not dug
deep enough and part of the rope with
which they were choked remained OUT
side. A neighbor looking for a lost COW
saw the rope took hold of it, and on pull
ing, discovered the heads of one of the vic
Tins. He was terror stricken and imme-
diately gave notice to the guard and the
judge. They then soon found out that
the men had been killed by order or Col
fhnrafnra
ended
'"The civil and military officials know
everything that has been related, but such
is the state of affairs on this island that
Gen. Weyler has no objection to appoint
ing this monster, Col. JUL military gov
ernor of Matanzas. Such deeds as enum-
The people of the towns of Matanzas,
with Col. JUL as governor and Gen. Aro-
las as leader of the troops, will suffer the
results of their pernicious and bloody in
stincts.
THAT the readers may know in part
who Gen. Arolas is, L will relate what
has happened in the Mercedes estate, near
Colon. 1t having come to his knowledge
that a small body of rebels was encamped
on the sugar estate of Mr.. Carrolla, Gen
Arolas went to engage them, but the
rebels, who were few in number, retreat
ed. Much veXed at not being able to dis
charge one shot at them, he made priso-
ners of three of the workmen, who were
out in the field herding the animals OF
the estate, and without any formality OF
trial, shot them. When the bodies were
taken to the Central, they were recog-
nized, and to cover his responsibility
somewhat Gen. Arolas said that when he
challenged them they ran off and at the
first discharge of musketry fell dead.
1T seems impossible that, being so neaI
the United States, so near the free, inno-
cent peasants can be butchered with i'm
punity. Not even in Armenia happens
what is being witnessed in Cuba. The his
tory of the Spanish dominion in the un-
fortunate island is a history of crime