The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-26
Minister De Lome's Reply TO Mrs. JEFF
Queen Regent of Spain.
MISS CISNEROS A BAD WOMAN
SHE is ACCUSED OF LURFNG A PROM
INENT OFFICER TO HER HOUSE
In Order that He Might BE Assassi-
mated by Co-Conspirntors-.'Yc
journalism" Denounced.

NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-In response to an
appeal cabled to the Queen of Spain by Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton and other notable American women urg-
ing clemency for the young girl, Evangeline
Cossio Cisneros, incarcerated at Havana ny
the Spanish military authorities. and who
it was reported was to be eXiled to the
penal colony at Ceuta. Africa, the resident
Spanish minister Dupuy de LONE, has adj
dressed the following letter to Mrs. Davis.
giving the official Spanish version of the
arrest of the young Cuban and the alleged
reasons fo- her detention anu proposed
trial.
"Lenox Mass, Aug. "a
Mrs Narina jefferson Davis, Narragan-
sett Pier, X. L.:
Dear Madame--Don Juan du Boso, first
secretary OF the royal spanish leSauon.
S Mn0 TeporeS 10 See y99 1ne my aae
ton he has had the honor of having
with you SATURDAY iast. nave not tailed
to convey 10 ner Majesty, the Queen.
through her minister OF state, the Duke of
Tetuan, that YOU had really autographed 10
her Majesty, ana | nave also reported the
noble ~ords you have expressed in your
Mr. Du Boso told you that when your
cabiegram was received the Queen and the
Spanish government had no knowledge of
the arrest of Miss Evangeline Cossio Cis-
neros, and also tnat her Majesty had given
to her the merits of the case, and had been
pleased to command me TO inform YOU II
your message was true, that she had re-
ceived it favorably and with all the regard
due to a lady SO worthy of respect as you
are.
The information received from Cuba by
the Spanish government and laid before
her Majesty, and that has been transmitted
to me by cable, shows, in my opinion, that
shameless conspiracy 10 promote the m
terest of one or more sensa tional papers is
at the bottom of the romance that mas
touched your good heart The facts SHOW
that Miss Evangellna Cossio Clsneros lured
to her house the military commander OF the
Island of Pines. and had men concealed IN
it, who tried TO aSSaSSinate him in connec-
ton With an uprising of the prisoners of the
island. For that offense, Tar from being
condemned and being ready TO be trans
ported to a penal settlement in Africa, she
mas not vet been tried; the public prosecutor
has not yet presented the case for the gov
ernment; he mas not yet, as is requisite
of our law, asked sentence TO De lmpoSei
on her, and the case is not yet ready 10 pc
finally disposed of.
THESE facts are very easy to prove. The
American consul general or any OF the tor
egn consuls in Cuba willing TO get lntor-
nation can convince themselves of the truth
and could have been applied to by the pa
pers which started this sensation If they
had really been prompted by the sentiment
of humanity instead Of having peen
prompted by the desire of increasing their
circulation by their usual slanderous meth
DDS The absolute falsehood OF the press
publications. in relation to concrete facts
related with the case, is not favorable GER
tainly to the eXactitude of the cons1dera-
tions with which the innocence OF the ac-
cused person pretends to be proved.
II have the honor of giving you the above
information by order of her Majesty ana
to inform you by her special command,
that she is well and favorably disposed 10
respond to your earnest plea, and am in
structed to add that, as the case stands.
and before the trial has been completed,
and a sentence imposed, she is not allowed
by law to interfere, but that Instructions
have been communicated to the governor
to grant to Miss Cossio all possible consid-
Grafton. 1 am, madame, very respectfully
49, "ENRIOITE DuPIY DE LONE"