The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-26
DU PUY DE LONE
TO MRS, DAVIS
The Spanish Minister Con-
veys Queens Message
Regarding Cisneros.
CLEMENCY FROM QUEEN
NO TRIAL YET AND THE CASE
is NOT READY TO BE
DISPOSED OF.
WILD STORY OF SENSATIONAL PAPERS
Earique Speaks of the Good Heart of Amer
ica's Grand Lady and Scores the Amer-
can Press for the Sensational Feature
that is Placed Above Desire
for News.

New 1ofk, Aug. Z0.--In response to
an appeal cabled to the Queen of Spain
by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, and other notable Amer
lean women, urging elemency for the
young girl Evangeline Cossie CisnerOs,
incarcersted at Havana by the Spanish
military authorities and who it was re-
ported was to be exiled to the penal col
ony at Gouta, Africa, the resident
Spanish minister, Dupuy de LONE, has
addressed the following letter to Mrs.
Davis, giving the official Spanish YER
sion of the arrest of the young Cuban
and the alleged reasons for her detention
and proposed trial:
"Lenox, Mass, Aug. "a. Mrs. Varina
Jefferson Davis, Narragansett Pier.
Dear Madam: Don Juan Du Boso, first
secretary of the royal Spanish legation,
who went to see you in my name, has
reported to me the conversation he has
had the honor Of having with you Sat
urday last.
majesty, the queen, through her minister
of State. the Duke of Tetuan, that you
had really telegraphed to Her Majesty
and I have also supported the noble
words you have expressed in your con-
versation.
''Mr. Du Boso told you that when your
Nv ha
the Spanish government had no knOwl-
edge Of the arrest of Miss Evangeline
Cossie Cisneros, and also that Her Ma
jesty had given orders, as soon as it was
received, to report to her the merits of
the case and had been pleased to COM
mand me to inform you, If your message
was true, that she had received it favor
ably and with all the regard due to a
lady so worthy of respect as you are.
'sThe information received from Cuba
by the Spanish government and laid be-
fore Her Majesty. and that has been
transmitted to me by cable shows, in my
opinion, that a shameless eonspiration to
promote the interest of one or more SEN
sational papers Is at the bottom Of the
romance that has touched your good
heart.
'The facts show that Miss Evangeline
Cossie Cisneros, lured to her house the
military commander of the Island OF
Pines, and had men concealed in it, who
tried to assassinate him in connection
with an uprising of the prisoners in the
island. For that offense, far from being
condemned and being ready to be trans
ported to penal settlement in Africa,
she has not yet been tried; the public
prosecutor has not yet presented the case
for the government; he has not yet, as is
a requisite of our law, asked a sentence
to be imposed on her, and the case is
not yet ready to be finally disposed Of
''These facts are very easy to prove.
"'The Consul General or any of the
foreign consuIs in Cuba willing to get
information can convince themselves Of
the truth. and could have been applied
TO by the papers which have started this
sensation, IL they had really been
prompted by a sentiment of humanity
instead of having been prompted by the
desire of increasing their circulation by
their usual slanderous methods.
'The absolute falsehood of the pres;
publications in relation to concrete facts
related with the case, is not favorable
certainly to the exactitude of the cOnsid-
erations with which the innocence of the
accused person pretends to be proved.
81 have the honor of giving you the
above information by order of Her Ma
iesty, and to inform you, by her special
command, that she is well and favorably
disposed TO correspond to your earnest
plea and I am instructed to add that, as
the case stands, and before the trial has
been completed. and a sentence imposed
she is not allowed by the law to interfere
but that Instructions have been commun
icated to the encouragement of Cuba
TO bring a speedy trial and to grant t.
Mss Cossie all possible consideration.
ST am, madam. very respectfully yours
"ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE"