The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-02
MINISTER DE LOME'S RESPONSE
TO APPEAL OF MRS. JEFFER-
SON DAVIS AND OTHERS.
SPANISH VERSION Of THE CASE
1t Is TO the Effect That SenOrita Cis-
neros Plotted Against the Life
of the Governor of the
Isle of Pines.


an appeal cabled to the queen of Spain
by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and other notable Ameri-
can women, urging clemency for the
young girl, Evangelne Cisneros, incar-
cerated by the Spanish at Havana and
who, it was reported, was to be exiled to
the penal colony of Ceuta, Africa, the
resident Spanish minister, Senior Dupuy
de LONE, has addressed the following let
ter to Mrs. Davis, giving the official
Spanish version of the arrest of the young
Cuban and the alleged reasons of her
detention and proposed trial:
"Lenox, Mass, Aug. 24.-Mrs. Va
rina Jefferson Davis, Narragansett Pier,
J.. L.: Dear Madame-Don Juan du
Buso. first secretary of the royal Spanish
legation, who went to see you in my
name. has reported to me the CONVERSE
ton he has had the honor OF having
with you Saturday last.
Il have not failed to convey to her
majesty, the queen, through her minis
ter of state, the Duke of Tetuan, that
you had really telegraphed to her
majesty, and / have also reported the
noble words you have expressed in your
conversation.
Mr.. Du Bose told you that when
your cablegram was received the queen
and the Spanish government had no
knowledge of the arrest of Miss Evan
geline Cossie Cisneros, and also that her
majesty had given orders as soon as it
was received to report to her the merits
of the case, and had been pleased to
command me to inform you, If your mes
sage was true, that she had received 1t
favOrably and with all the regard due to
lady so worthy of respect as you are.
THE information received from Cuba
by the Spanish government and laid be-
fore her majesty, and that which has
been transmitted to me by cable, shows,
in my opinion, that shameless con-
spiracy to promote the interest OF one
or more sensational newspapers is at
the bottom of the romance that has
! touched your good heart.
1.-The facts show that Miss Evangelint
Cossie Cisneros lured to her house the
military commander of the Isle of Pines
| and had men concealed in it who tried
| to assassinate him in connection with an
uprising of prisoners in the island. Fol
| that offensc, far from being condemned
and being ready to be transported 10
| penal settlement in Africa, she has moi
yet been tried; the public prosecutor has
| not yet presented the case for the gov
ernment: he has not yet. as is a requi
| site of our law. asked a sentence to b'
! imposed on her, and the case is not yc
| ready TO be finally disposed of.
"'These facts are very easy to prove
The American consul general or any o
the foreign consuls in Cuba willing t.
get information can convince themselvc
of the truth and could have been ap
piled to by the papers which have startc'
this sensation if they had not really bee
prompted by the desire of increasin;
their circulation by their usual SANDER
Gus methods
''rhc absolute falsehood of the pres
publications in relation to concrete fact
related with the case is not favOrabl
certainly to the eXactitude of the con
siderations with which the innocence o
the accused person prctends to be proved
81 have the honor of giving You tn
above information by order of he
majesty and to inform You by he
special command that she is well an
favorably disposed to respond to you
earnest plea. and am instructed to ad
that as the case stands. and before tn
trial has been completed and a ser
tencc imposed. she is not allowed by til
law to interfere. but that instruction
have been communicated to the gOve'
nor general of Cuba to bring Il speed
trial and to grant Miss Cisncros all p),
sible considcra ton.
Il am, madame, very respectful
yours,
ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE"