Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-27
NO ClEMENCY
Yet Granted in Case of Evan
geIina Cossio Cisneros.
De LONE Addresses Letter to Women
Working in Her Behalf.
Some Hope that Queen Will Pardon Her After
Sentence is Imposed.

New York, Aug. 25.--In response to
a nappeal cdbled to the Queen Of Spain
by Mrs jefferson Davis. Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton. and other notable
American women. urging clenency fof
the young girl fvangelina Cosslo
CiSaeros, incarcerated at Havana, by
tine Spanish military authorities, ana
who reported. was 10 be exilcd to the
penal colony at Ceuta. Africa, the res
idens Spanish minister. Dupuy DE-
Lone, mas adaftssed a letter Ia Mrs.
DAVIS. giving the official Spanish ver-
sion OF the arrest OF the young Cuban.
and the alleged reason for her desen-
ton and prepared trials IN part as fol-
loNS:
The information received from Cuba
,y thc Spanish government ana laid
before Her Majesty. and that has beeu
transmitted 10 me by cable. shows. in
my opinion. that a shameless cUnspIra-
tion to promote the interest OF one o.
more sensational papers is at the
J0ttU Of the romance that has
touched your good heart.
The facts show that Miss EVangelina
Cossio Cisneros ured To her house the
military commander of the Island Of
Pines. and had men concealed in it,,
who tried to assassinate him in con-
ncrtion with an uprising of the prison
ers in the island. For that offense. far
from being condemned. and being
ready to be transported to penal set
Element 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 requisite of our
law. asked a sentence to be imposed
on her. and the case is not yet ready to
be finally disposed of.
II have the honor OF giving you the
above information by order of Her
Majesty. and TO inform you by her
| special command. that she is well and
faYurabIy disposed to correspond to
your earnest plea. and | am instructed
to add that the case stands. and before
the trial has been completed and a SEN
tencc imposed. she is not allowed by
the law to interfere, but that instruc-
tons have been communicated to the
governor general of Cuba To bring a
speedy trial. and to grant TO Miss Cos
sio Cisneros all possible consideration. :"
Tn, case of Evaugclina CoSsio Cisneros
confined the the Cassa de Ricojidas.
| where the vHeSt women of Havana are
placed. has aroused great sympathy
among American women. If found guilty
of the charges preferred. she must expi-
ate the sentence pronounced upon her.
which, said the military judge under
whose jurisdiction the case Is called. will
be from 10 to 20 years Of Punishment. or
omothins worse. Cen Lee interested
himself in the girls behalf. and he called
upon Gen. Ahumada. but 10 no avail.
col. Beriis. the military governor of
the Isle of Pines. went TO Miss CiSneroS
room at night and was seized by her
friends Miss Cisncros went to the island
to he near her father, a Cuban political
exile. Col. Berris charged that the girl
had lurcd him TO her room to deliver him
to the iusurgcnt prisoners for ASA ssina-
ton, whereas, it is claimed that the men
who came in response to the girls cries
FOR help had the Spanish officer bound
prisoner for two hours, and in that time
did not harm him.