The times., 1897-08-22
AN APPEAL 10 CHRISTINA
Mrs. SOuthWOrth Calls Upon the
Queen TO Free Miss Cisner0s.
General EYeyler Denies That the
Young Woman Has Been Sem
tenced or Even Tried.

Among tht. prominent women who have
taken an acute interest in the piUiful story
OF seuorita Evangehna cisneros, the young
relative of the president of the Cuban
Republic, who has been sentenced to the
terrible African penal colony, is Mrs f.
D. T.. \. Southworth, the wen-known
novelist.
Mrs. southworth has cabled the foloy-
ing short message TO Queen Christina:
" Washington, August n, 1897
Her Majesty Christina, Queen Regent or
SPAN:
ia the name OF the Father, the Son and
holy Ghost, and OF an moJners, sisters ana
daughters or civilized countries, enTeat
you TO use your power 10 Tree Senorlta
EvangelIna Cisneros from the terrible tate
W r. i. L. N. .soUTHwoRTH.
Mrs. Ronthwortn is now almost eighty
years old. She lives very quietly at
Prospect Cottage" her home beyond
Geor eetown. high on the bluffs over
looking the Potomac and the blue Vir
ginia hills. In the warm sunny afternoons
she sits on her vine clad southern porch
watching the river flow by and the trees
beyond. She is very happy in her peace
ful life with her son III her old hone and
glad to have retired from all active pur-
suits She writes very little, and it is
almost never that the public sees her
name that was once SO prominent in
peoples minds attached to anything.
The terrible case of Senorita Cisneros,
however has appealed strongly warm
sympathy of her heart. She believes that
the young girl wiz escape, that such an
awful crime will not be permitted.
A reporter for The Times called at Pros
pect Cottage To see Mrs. Southworth yes
tsrdlay. She expressed her strong faith
that no harm VIII come to Senorita Cis-
neros.
Gen. Weyler has sent dispatch TO this
country denying that Senorita Cisneros
has been sentenced 10 imprisonment or
even that size las set been tried. He
says in his telegram:
For judicial reasons there is on trial
IN the preliminary stages a person named
EvangeIina COsSio CisnerUs, who, deceit
fully Turing 10 her house the military COM
uander OF the Isle of Pines, had men posted
secretly, who tied him and attempted TO
assassinate him. This case is in the pre-
Iirninary Stages, and has not yet been tried
by a competent tribunal, and consequently
no sentence has been passed nor approved
by me"
This story is mbelieved.
Reports from Cuba that are not TO be
gainsaid are to the effect that the beauti-
ful Cuban girl was arrested with her
father and sister on the charge of rebellion
and exiled a year ago to the Isle of Pines.
where they lived in the Gale Principal OF
4.
ernOr of the sic of Pines was the Spanish
Col. Jose Berriz, nephew Of the Spanish
prime minister. He saw the beautiful
girl and fell in love with her. He wrote
frequently to lei. and finally imposed a
condition worse than death ON the young
and delioately reared girl
A6sw ering one of his letters, she told
him 10 be at her houss on certain day.
Then size told her friends, and they Sc
creted themselves in her parlor on the day
the governor was 10 visit her, and he was
bound hand and foot.
Just then Tie patrol passed, and the
COloneTs cries We're heard. The soldiers
rushed into the house, and she, er father,
and nearly all her fnends were captured
They were thrown into prison. and then
Col. BerriZ, who had been an aide de-canp
20 Heyler. visited the general. reporting
he had discovered a conspiracy In the
Isle of Pines. Then the girl and her father
were taken TO Havana. She was sent to
the Casa de Rec95idas hous for abandoned
wonen) and her father 10 the Cabana
1t has been reported that the young
girl had heen eourt-martialed, and that the
verdict twenty years irnpr isonment in
Ceuta, where no woman has ever been
confined, and where her fate would be
worse than death had been Withheld TN
tll IL was approved by Gen. weyier.
According to Gen. Weyler's message. heI