The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-30
MORE ABOUT CROSBY
Records Own story, Including a Letter
From Gomez to Mckinney

From Gomez to Mckinney
Chicago, March 29-The Record TO-
morrow will say:
Mr.. c. E. Crosby, whose letters 10 the
Record have appeared over the sigma
ture Don Carlos Joined the army OF
General Gomez early in February. fav-
ing made his way through the Spanish
lines after secretly communicating with
the rebel governor Of the province OF
Santa Clara, and receiving from him an
armed escort TO the headquarters of the
| CUBAN commander. He was present at
number OF the recent engagements az
| which there was hard fighting. 4 letter
| from the Records Havana correspond
ent, Crittenden Marriott, gives the in
formation that some of Mr.. Cros5y's cor
respondence has fallen into the hands OF
the Spaniards on its way through the
lines, and the Spanish authorities have
been trying 10 seize him, descriptions
of his personal appearance being sent
broadcast through the province of Santa
Clara. His last dispatch was received
March "a, having been written in the
camp of General Gomez, near Arroyo
BlancO, where he is now reported 10
have been killed.
By the same courier doubtless was
sent the important letter of General
Maxine Gomez, 20 President Mckinley,
published below.
Mr.. Crosby's copy Of this letter reached
the Record office yesterday. having come
by mail, as it was the desire of the Gu
ban commander that it should not be
had horn
hands OF President Mckinley.
If Mr.. Crosby has really paid with
his life for his courage and enterprise,
the Recorder readers gain from him,
as an earnest of his abolity as CORES
pendent, knowledge of the remarkab BILE
letter which was sent by General Gomez
10 President Cleveland, and which Ell
Their went astray or was kept secret by
its recipient, as well as of this late COM
munication, which probably arrived at |
the White House last night:
in the Field Near Sancti Espiritu,
March 1, 1897.
The Honorable William Mckinley, |
President of the United States Of |
America:
''Sir:-General Weyler has arrived in |
this district Of Sancti Espirtu, with q
army. He comes not to fight |
nor to oppose his strength to the forces
with which I defend these parts, but as
a sanguinary and cruel general, who
will avoid combats and spread crime and
desolation everywhere. He comes tn
murder the peasants in the fields; to kill
the children, and to drive our prosecuted
and outraged women TO the woods, leav-
ing their homes to be burned, their
hearths violated and their gardens de-
stroyed. This is how General Weyler
Dacifies Sancti Espiritu, or wherever he
may be. Then he authorizes those who
ask him for bread for their children.
and alienation for their mlseries, to go
1ut into the country and 10 steal and de-
;troy whatever they may find.
with this, permit me to send you a
,opy of letter which 1 had the honor
o send your predecessor in Office, Mr..
Grover Cleveland 1t is the hope that il
nay move you 10 sacred action that in
luces me to take up my pen TO trouble
Tou.
"Sancti Espiritu. Feb. 9, 1897.
Mr.. Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States:
''Sr:-Permit a man whose soul is
orn within him by the contemplation OF
'Eutterable crimes to raise his voice TO
lie supreme chief of a people, free, Gull
waited and powerful.
do not, beg, regard this action as
n inopportune act of officialism. You
ourself authorized il when you conced-
i TO me a place in your mast message
0 congress.
Even more, 1 beg you, do not regard
; as request for Intervention in our
fairs. We Cubans have thrown our c
elves into this war, confident in our 9
trength. The wisdom of the American G
eople should alone decide what course l
{ action you should take. q
Il will not speak of the Cubans in l
rms. No; raise my voice only in tn.
anne of unarmed Americans, victims of 2
frightful cruelty. I raise it in the o
anne of weakness and of innocence sac 7
ficed, with forgetfulness of the elemen /
airy principles Humanity, and the {
cernal maXims of Christian morality (