The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-08-26
FULL TEXT OF HIS LETTER
To Mrs. jefferson DaFiS In Reply to Her
Appeal.
GUILTY OF SHAMELESS CONSPIRACY
In Attempting to Secure the Assassination of
a Spanish officer, is the Charge --Qneen
Regent Cannot ntercede For the
Girl Until She Is Tried.

6lrl Until she Is lred.
New York, Aug. 25.-In response to an
appeal cabled to the queen of Spain by
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. .Eliz beth Cady
Stanton and other notable women, urging
ciemency for the young girl, Evangeline
Cisneros incarcerated at Havana by the
military authorities, and who. it was re-
ported, was to be s.nt to the penal co.ony
in Africa, the resident Spanish minister,
Dupuy de Lome has addressed the fol-
lowing letters to Mrs. Davis, giving tile
official Spanish version of the arrest of
the young Cuban and the alleged reasons
for her detention and proposed trial:
"Lenox, Mass, Aug. 25.-To Mrs. VAR
ina Jefferson Davis. Narragansett Pier.
R. l.:
"Dear Madame-Don Juan Gu Bosu,
first secretary of the royal Spanish lega-
ton, who went to see you in my name.
has reported to me the conversation he
had the honor of having with you Satur-.
day last. 1 have not fai'ad 10 convey to
her majesty, the queen, through her min
lister of state the Duke of Tetuan, tha.
you had really telegra phed to htr majeg-
ty, and 1 have also supported the noble
words you have expressed in your COM
munication.
"Mr. Du Bosu told you that when your
telegram was received the Spanish govern
ment had no knowledge of the rase OF
Miss Cisneros, also that her majesty had
given instructions to me to look into the
merits of the casa and had been pleased
to order me to communicate to you that
if your message was true, taat she had
received it favorably and with all the re-
gard due to lady so worthy of respect
as you are.
1.-THE information received from Cuba
by the Spanish government and laid be-
fore her majesty, and that has baen trans
mittad to me by cable, shows. in my opin-
ion, that a shameless conspiracy to pro
mote the interests of one or more sensa-
tional papers is at the bottom of the ro-
nance that has touched your good heart.
1.-THE facts show that Miss Evangelna
Corso 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 proceed to
!. the 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 requi-
site of our law, asked a sentence to be
imposed on her and the case is not yet
ready to be fully disposed of.
..These facts are very easy to price
The American consul general, or any of
the general consuls in Cuba, willing. to
get etinformation, can convince ths mselves
of the truth and could have been applied
to by the papers which have started this
sensation If they had really been prompt-
ed by a sentiment of humanity instead Of
having been prompted by desire Of in
creasing their circulation by their usual
slanderous methods. The absolute false
hood of the press publicat tions in rela-
tion to concrete facts relating to the case
is not favorable certainly to the exacti-
tude of the considerations which the in
nocence Of the accused person pretends
to be proved.
81 have the honor of giving you the
above by order of her majesty and to
inform you by here special command that
she is well and favorably disposed to
correspond to your earnest plea and am
instructed to add that as the case stands
and before the trial has been completed
she is not allowed by law to interfere,
but that Instructions have been commu-
v,ioated "a tho rovernorS b. neral of Cs,,f,a
to bring o speedy. trial ard to grant Miss
Cisneros all possible consideration. rs
81 am. madame. very respectfully ycurz.
.RNRIoUE DUPuf DE LONE '.as'