The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-09
.SENORITA CASSIE CISNEROS.
Her Successful Escape Caused SEN
@-satioa In Havana.
SUPPOSED MANNER AND MEANS USED
Public Opinion Divided whether In
surgents or American sympnthiz-
crs Assisted Weylers' Prisoner.
Havana, october s.--The escape o, Senior

Havana, October S.--The escape OF Senior
ita Evangelina Cassie. otherwise Cassie
Cisneros. exclusively reported in q cable
gram to the Associated Press last night.
has caused quite sensation in Havana.
The investigation made by the author
tiles has developed number Of additional
facts In the case. 1t Is now asserted that
the young woman escaped between II
o'clock and midnight on Wednesday, over
the roof Of neghboring house. and
through it to the street below. On the
roof OF the adjoining house the authorities
found three planks. so as to make a
bridge, enabling a person to pass from
the roof OF the prison to the roof OF the
house referred to-
Senorlta Cassie must have been in con-
slant communication with those who en-
abled her to escape from the Casa de Ro-
cojidas, where she was imprisoned with
eleven other women.
Some of the details OF the young Cuban
girls escape are quite romantic. 1t ap-
pears that real estate agent named Mar
iano Fernandez. who was in charge of the
house, No. O'Farrell Lane, declares that
he recently rented that building TO two
we'll dressed young women. The latter
seemed 10 be highly respectable, and hired
the house tor two months, paying the
rent In advance. The building was poorly
furnished the principal room in 1t con-
tanning only an old table, washstand a
wardrobe. an antique sdeboard, six old
chairs and six plates. But the young wo-
n ba wit
the surroundings and little or no notice
of them was taken by the neighbors or
anybody else, in spite of tho fact that the
house was situated close to the prison in
which young Cuban girl, whose story
cause such sensation In the United
States, was confined. When the rooms at
No. l O'Farrell Lane were searched the
police, in addition to the articles already
described. found a bag OF lime, can of
paint and large brush, which mighe be
used for the application Of either lime or
paint. Inside the window through which
the girl escaped the police discovered n
bet sheet. This apartment. was a sleeping
room, which leads the authorities TO believe
that the sheet was used by the escaping
prisoner TO enve!op herself, with the object
OF deceiving her roommates. IL she was
unlucky enough to awaken them into the
belief that she was moving about in her
night clothes.
The companions of the young Cuban
woman, whom she left behind say that the
day before Senorta CASSIE escaped she
received package. believed to have con-
tanned druggod candies. in any case the
senorita, contrary to her usual custom,
did not at once distribute the candies to
her prison companions. The prisoners ex-
pressed the opinion that the sweets were
drusged. for they soon afterwards fell into
deep sleep and did not awaken through
out the night though tire filing o. the iron
bar of the scnorita's bedroom window must
have clused enough noise to have awakened
the prisoners under ordinary circumstances.
There is a diversion of opinion as to
whether the escape Of the senorta was
effected by Americans or by Cuban insur-
gents. The police are hard at work in
Vesugating the escape and all the Spanish
authorities along the coast have been com
municated with In the belief that an at
tempt may be made to embark the senorita
on some vessel leaving Cuba for the United
States or elsewhere Fernandez, the taller
In charge of the Casa de Rocojdas and
four employees of the government, who We're
on duty there, have been arrested and
are confined incommunicado, pending the
result of the investigation.