New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-07
r1ED CUBA IN BOYS ATTIRE
,ss CECIL CHARLES ESCAPED SPANISH
SPIES IN A SMALL BOAT
ARRIVED HERE ON THE CITY OF WASHING
roN-HER STORY OF THE CRUEL TREAT
MrNr TO WHICH PRISONERS ARE
sURJEcrED-CoNsUL BRICE
ALSO A PASSENGER.

ALSO PASSENGER.
.uong the passengers who arrived on Weones
a.. =, the Ward Line steamship CITY OF "asnihs
ss wsre Miss Cecil Charles and AlexahoeI -
w.. ,oa United States Consul at Matanzas they
pi''' ,,o,,od at Hoffman Island, as they did not
". occImaiization papers, ana came up W '"o
',, Yesterday. Miss Charles Is slehoer' viva
q" .x,ous-looking woman, who arrived mere
Wv, limited wardrobe. as she left |uoa 'a'"e'
1T She went TO the disturbed 'saho a"o"'
,asr months ago for the purpose OF "'"e''"h
''"''e ,er a hook which she is writing about
Cuba ,,s ,,,o,. no,estation
'"e - .t,oo hut finally the Spanish authorizes
W. -. - watch her as they belieVeo she was
~ 49,, d,sratches to American newspapers re
.,,. Miss charles stopped at ho'ei oh o'.e o"'
80. ~ havana hut the actions oil 'he spies oe
~. such that following me ho'ice Vi
cam ~ oorrespondent she decided to seek other
i@Pe, cn. arst visited Cabanas Prison, secur-
qua hv subterfuga The treatment the
's s-s ,acelyed there, she SAID yesterday Soo'i
pr'so"' 49,. vas horrible. The men are crowded
~ wore In "A cell only 2 by 20 feet. where INC
A =. a,nost beyond human endurance.
~ ,h. prisoners there she saw several Oh 'ne
Amo"e ~ .N Inflated Competitor expedition
fnen'' ho~da whose brother arrived here somH
o. 40. owen Milton. the newspaper corIrsP"""
49, v-p,i.u, Knlea and Elias f5eo'a' Inc i"e'.
~ 49,, on short rations. and. as she expressed
=. ,o.,rs6 10 be dying on ther lee'' MISS
=, - or. nos emphatic in her description OF INC
ou,-ares Miss Charles also saw Julio
,l.r,,,,, IN prison. but he had cell 10 hinse'
'",'s ,ro.,ed with some degree Of consideration
sh .hen went 10 the city OF MatanZas "here
.A,rss are according TO her description IN a nor
r,hla condition. The streets were niieu WIN ,'''
,oads of the dead bodieI OF Pacincos' many Vi ''e
h,dv decompossl. and they were aIo"eo " 'e
vain unburied for days AT time 1hs was uo"o'
80 ci,,zens or rather subjects OF the ,siano MISS
Charles said that the entire island was III hoi
ribls condition. and thai the hall hao never oee"
80, r-or, Natarzas she went 20 Havana and re-
,,rned 10 The hotel where she had 5een sr
s,s~,ng In Havana. she declared people We W. e
6,,ing bv me scores from yellow leVeT' siHa atPuN
ard other diseases arising from the terribly one"-
tjre condition Of the streets . - hor ond
Tho Snanjsh spies again began 10 worry ner anu.
ge,inr an inkng OF the fact that theY Weie -
- arrest her. The young woman dohheu d Suit 49, -
boys clothes and leaving me ho.tl pS ;. ~ wash
made her way in n small boat 10 the Sltv Oh snf n
ii-r.o, yrbirI was lying In the harbor, ana sue
cce3ed IN getting aboard by means OF rope IauHe, T.
eNe remained concealed on the s'eahtSnp shn pxnant a
y,r, SrS \ few other things that she could carry
win her In small bundle Miss Charles reSa,us US
her escape as narrow ore. and cohel a'u,s vi, ~
herself that she got away at All. pagsase W =. ~,
iagrage she Went 10 No 324 East Thirteenth-st; !;
where she will remain until she mas az
SOM what and purchased new wardrooe' c,ho
According 10 her account the peOpie vi
rbo are not in oren rebellion so terrorzed .l
f. i pracically impossible 70 get an! t, 1igb
from them Tho Spaniards nave o,,rs geons
Consul Rrce came home sixty days ieeTe o.
absence and will go at once 70 ms nome. ~ ~.
ford Iowa Mr. Brice intimated ma. ne "ouId o,Id no.
- ,s" r4e dsr,ared tho situation in Cuba 10 be ex-
tremely serious.