San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-17
He Will STRANGE.
COWardly Assassin OF Pre-
mi0r CanOVaS.
HIS TRIAL BY MILITARY COURT
MARTIAL DID NOT LAST
VERY LONG
And He Showed The White Feather
When He Learned How He Was
To Die This Week By
The Use Of The
Carrot

New York, Aug. ia dispatch to
the Herald from Vegara, SPAN, gives
these details Of the trial of Angiollo,
the anarchist who shot Canovas and
who was sentenced to die by the gar
rote this week in Vegara prison:
The government suddenly determin-
ed to hurry the trial and execution of
Angiollo. kilograms from the war
Office were sent to yitoria and Sebas-
tan that obliged the members and
president of the court martial and the
public prosecutor to start from that
garrison in the middle of the night ar
irving at yergara about daylight. The
local authorities, also instructed,
hurried preparations. A strong guard
was posted around the courthouse.
Other precautions were taken. All
suspicious looking foreigners and
strangers We're closely watched, be-
cause the authorities of Vergara had
arrested on Saturday two Germans,
alleged workingmen on a tramp in
quest of work, but who had social
istic paper in their possession and
could not satisfactorily account for
their movements.
All the members of the court, ac-
cording to custom, first heard mass in
the principal yergara church. They
they proceeded in full uniform VITA
an escort to the hall of justice.
The court room was not large, but
was well lighted by several windows.
At the upper end with his back to the
wall, sat the president, the colonel of
artillery, Elicegui, a severe looking of
ficer having on his right six captains
of infantry and artillery, while the
prosecutor, Capt. Auditor, sat on the
right of the judges. Counsel for the
defendant, Lieutenant of Artillery
Gorria, sat on the left looking grave
under the difficult task assigned him
by the authorities, because the prls-
Oner refused to select counsel from a
list of six officers preferred to him.
Civil guards and soldiers with fixed
bayonets, stood at the doors. COmpar
atively few people were present ex-
cept officials, though everybody in
Vergara knew the trial was taking
place.
The priests again visited the prison
er early Sunday morning in vain
endeavor to shake his resolute obstin- |
acy.
When the prison officials informed |
him that he was wanted for trial, he
stood up as erect as his chains per-
mitted, made his toilet, had his cravat
tied and his coat cleaned and shouted |
out more than usual about his anar-
chistic ideas, though his jailors re-
minded him that he must behave him
self. With their assistance he was
speedily conveyed to a room near the
court where he was closely watched
by strong escort with loaded mus
kets and fixed bayonets, under a cap
tain.
When brought in Angiollo gazed de-
iantly around, closely scrutinizlng the
aces, as if looking for some one.
The court proceedings were conduct
ID rapidly. The disposition of the
witnesses and doctors post norton
were read, or rather num-
lied, by the clerk. The public prose-
.utor read his sternly worded case for .
he crown. based upon the prisoners
.onfession of premeditated murder,
lis treacherously lying in wait, his
erocity in carrying out the deed, an
antecedents and completely
n other crimes at Barcelona, finally
skiing the court to sentence him to