The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-11
BARRY WAS KILLED.
Adventures Of Pour Americans Who
Sought to Join Insurgents.
TWICE CAPTURED BY THE SPANIARDS
One Was Shot Down While At
tempting to Escape.
sWoRB ALLEGIANCE TO QUEEN
Forced to Sign a Paper Promising
to DO All They Could Against
the Republic of Cubn.

Philadelphia, Pa. January johannes
MaGuirc of this city. jeremiah Bonds Of
New York and Charles W. Allen OF Stam-
ford. Conn. have Just reached this city,
after thrilling experience In Cuba. In
tho course OF which william Barry Of
Now York. who had accompanied them,
was shot and killed by the Spauards.
On the 10th OF last September the trio
mentioned, IN company with Barry, start
cd for Cuba to join the forces OF the bell
lgerents. and arrived in Havana Sep
TENDER q. They fell in with Jose Ruiz,
Cuban patriot. who volunteered to guide
the narty to the retreat occupied BY the
Cuban commanders. They headed for tho
Pinar del Rio district and when near Ma
| riel. In tho Guauaja district. were SUR
lpriscd by body OF about nifty Spaniards.
| They wa,s then taken prisoners searched
! and finding parcrs creating suspicion on
fRuis they held consultation and de-
cided to XIII all tho prisoners The con-
vcrsation was carried on In Spanish but
Ruiz Interpreted their remarks for his
American friends,
which they had placed themselves. tho
quntctte decided to risk their lives In a
| vigorous effort 10 escape rather than to
wait and be shot MaGuirc rolled over TO
| Ruiz and the young Cuban used hs teeth
with such success that he soon had Ma
| Cures hands cut loose. MaGuire then
took n pcnknife and liberated his COM
panions. II was dark. but the moon
showed light sufficient TO illuminate the
| ground for some distance. With n rush
the i've men ran to the spot where they
noticed some rnachetcs, revolvers aud
belts full of ammunition. Then they at
tempted to get away. but the Spaniards
pursued firing n deadly volley after their
escaping prisonays. Barry fell, shot
! through the heart mt the first fire and
Bonds right arm was perforated by q
bullet. The other four succeeded In out
distanong their pursuers. They made
every effort to get back and recover Bar
rvs body, however, but were unsuccessful
and wore compelled to make their way
further into the mountainous regions Of
Pipar del Rio and after tortuous and
wearisome journey they arrived In the re-
I gion of San Cristobal
} a few days afterwards thcy were re-
captured by band of Spanish patriots
Their hands were tied behind their backs
and they were compelled to march for q
distance OF over 100 miles. when they were
thrown into prison. Tho mex day they
were forced again to march again until
late IN the afternoon. when they were put
into prison. and 40 they were marched
from prison to prison until Havana was
reached. Here they were thrown into Z
well guarded prison where they We're sep
arated
On December % the three Americans
were before some commanding officer
whose name they did not learn, but It
Is presumed by them that was General
Weycr. They were told Ruiz. the young
Cuban. bad committed suicide by shoot
ing himself with revolver which he had
anatchcd from one OF the guards. The
three friends said nothing, but they dis
credited the suicide story and were firmly
convinced that the young Cuban had been
murdered. The trio OF Americans were
offered their liberty and passage home II
they signed a paper swearing allegiance
to the queen Of Spain and promising 10 DO
all they could against the Cuban cause
in the United States. This they agreed
TO and the three men were released.