The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-12
WHERE is SHE?
The Herald Declares That
EVangeIina CisnerOs
Is Now Safe in the City of New
York.
JOURNAL DENIES 1T.
DiIigent Search Fails to Dis
cover Her.
Cubans Parade in Honor of Her
DeliVerance.
DENIES 1T.

New York, Oct. 12.-The Herald says:
'Senorita Evangeline Cosio y Cisneros,
the Cuban girl who escaped from Casa de
Recojidas in Havana on Wednesday night
last, arrived in this city yesterday morn
ing. American friends accompanied her
from New Orleans. On reaching Jersey
City Miss Cisneros was taken in a closed
carriage to the headquarters of the Cuban
sympathizers in this city, where she was
joyfully received. After a short recep-
ton she was taken away and no one was
allowed to see her until last evening.
"A special edition of the local Cuban
newspaper was published. asking all loyal
Cubans to assemble al the office of the
junta at o'clock to join in a torchlight
parade in honor of the young woman's
delivery"
All the employees of the New York Jour
nal, and particularly the people having
charge of the Senorita Cisneros matter,
emphatically denied that the young wo-
man was in the city. and a tour of all
the rooms in the Journal office proved the
falsity of the rumor that she was secreted
there. 1t was stated at the Journal Of
flee that all rumors concerning the pres
ence of Miss Cisneros in the city are un-
authorized and untrue.
Washington, Oct. Estate department
officials make light of the prospect of
any international trouble following the
escape of Miss Cisneros. They say that,
presumtng the girl and her rescuer have
reached the United States, they cannot
be surrendered, even if claimed by the
Spanish authorities. The case is covered
by two principles of law that are never
deviated from, according to the state de-
partment people. AS far as concerns
Miss Cisneros, she being a political refu-
lou Ia
surrendered, and there is no clause in the
Spanish extradition treaty that would
serve as a basis for a claim for her sur
render. The circumstances under which
she may have reached the United States
cannot affect the force of this doctrine
AS for the Journal agent who secured
the escape of the girl, his case is express
ly covered in the following article of the
extradition treaty between Spain and the
United States, concluded in 1871:
article 8. Neither of the contracting
parties shall be bound to deliver up it's
own citizens or subjects under the supu-
lations of this contract"
This treaty was amended in 1882 but
this particular article 3 was not touched
and remains in full force. Moreover, it
has been the general policy of the United
States to refuse to deliver up its own cltl-
zens to a foreign state, even when they
were accused of crime in such state.
At the last session of congress, Presi-
dent Cleveland sent to the senate draft
of two treaties and submitted them for
it's approval These were the extradition
treaties with the Argentine confederation
and with the Orange Free State In each
case an article was inserted permitting
the surrender of a citizen of a state to
another state upon the charging of crime
These articles We're inserted by express
direction of the president. When the
treaties were taken up in the senate the
new form was discovered and the senate
,,e7,v promptly cut out the two articles.
President Cleveland was so firmly con-
vfnced of the value of the articles. and
so determined in his opinion that his
country could no longer be permitted TO
shield criminals, even though they were
Americans that he refused the negotla-
+ions. although neither of the contract
ing parties cared particularly for the re-
tention of the articles.