The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-26
POOR CISNEROS.
She Will Not be Released From
Prison,
Although Hundreds Of Petitions
From Women Were
SENT OVER THE OCEAN
To the Queen Regent OF Spain
For Her Release.
One Of These Petitions Was
From Topeka.
SENT OVER THE OCEAN

New York, Aug. 26.-1n 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 clemency for the
young girl, Evangelina Cosseie Cisner-
os. incarcerated at Havana by the
Spanish military authorities, and who,
it was reported. was to be exiled to the
penal colony at Ceuta, Africa, the resi-
dent Spanish minister ,Dupuy de LONE,
has addressed the following letter to
Mrs. Davis, giving the official Spanish
version of the arrest of the young Gu
ban and the alleged reasons for her de-
tention and proposed trial:
Lenox, Mass, Aug. 24.-Mrs. Varina
Jefferson Davis, Narragansett Pier, r.
I.-Dear Madam Don Juan DuboSo,
first secretary of the royal Spanish le-
cation, who went to see you in my
name, has reported to me the conver-
sation he has had the honor of having
with you Saturday last.
/ have not failed to convey to her
majesty, the queen, through her min
lister of state, the Duke of Teutan, that
you had telegraphed to her majesty,
and I have also reported the noble
words you have expressed in your con-
versation.
Mr.. Duboso told you that when your
cablegram was received the queen and
the Spanish government had no knowl-
Cosscie Cisneros, and also that her
majesty had given orders as soon as it
was received to report to her the mer-
its of the case, and had been pleased to
command me to inform you, if your
message was true, that she had receiV-
ed it favorably and with all the regard
due to a lady so worthy of respect as
you are.
The information received from Cuba
by the Spanish government and laid
before her majesty and that has been
transmitted to me by cable, shows, in
my opinion, that the shameless con-
Spiracy to promote the interest of one
or more sensational papers is at the
bottom of the romance that has touch
ed your good heart
The facts show that Miss Evangelina
Cosscie Cisneros 1ured 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 of the
island. For that offense, far from be-
ing condemned and being ready to be
transported 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 American consul general or any
of the foreign consuls in Cuba willing
selves of the truth, and could have
been applied to by the papers, which
have started this sensation, if they
had really been prompted by a senti-
ment of humanity instead of having
been prompted by the desire of increas-
ing their circulation by their usual
slanderous methods.
The absolute falsehood of the press
publications in relation to the facts in
the case is not favorable certainly to
the exactitude of the consideration
with which the innocence of the ac-
cused person pretends to be proved
I have the honor of giving you the
above information by order of her mai
esty, and to inform you by her special
command, that she is well and favora-
bly, disposed to respond to your earnest
plea, and 1 am instructed to add that,
as the case stands, and before the trial
has been completed and a sentence i'm
posed, she is not allowed by the law to
interfere, but that instructions have
been communicated to the governor
general of Cuba to bring a speedy trial
and to grant Miss Cisneros all possible
consideration.
I am, Madam. very respectfully