The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-09
ESCAPE OF cISNEROs
Flight of the Patriot Girl Causes a Sensa.
ilon In Havana.
AIDED BY TWO NICE YOUNG MEN,
attendants Put 10 Sleep With
Doctored Candy Filing Tho win.
dow Bnrs Failed to Disturb Their
slumbers-Jaiicr ana Assistants
Confined Incolnmunicado.
Havana, Oct. s, 1897.

Havana. Oct 8, 1897
The escape of Senorita Evangelina
Ccssio otherwise Cossto Cisneras, has
caused quite q sensation in Havana.
The investigation made by the author
rites has developed n number Of addi-
rional facts in the case. 1t is now as
serted THAT the young woman escaped
between IL O'Clock and midn!gh. q.
Nv ednesday over the roof Of 4 neigh
boring house and through it to the
street below. O'Ferrall lane, AMI not
into the street where the police found
hand ladder.
Onthe roof of the adjoining house the
authorities found three planks, each
ABOUT three feet long AMI IS inchas
vide, Joined together by strong hinges,
SO as TO serve as "a bridge, enabling
Il person to pass from the roof Of the
prison ITO the roof of the house -rferred
TO. The authorities also found on ti,e
roof Smith & Wesson revolver OF large
callDre, with Its six chambers loadel.
and new knotted rope, which lad evi-
dently been used as u life line or guild
ing rope 10 enable the escaping prisoner
70 cross the plank bridge which had
been extended by her accomplices from
ahe house near the Casa de Recojidas to
tne roof OF that prison. The revolver.
The knotted rope and the port able bridge
as well as the other discoveries made by
one police. show that the escape or
oenolEa Cossio was long and carefully
Planned. She must have been In con-
stant communication with those who
enabled her to escape from the Casa de
RlroJidas, where she was imprisoned
with eleven other women.
Some of the details of the >-o,no Gu
pan escape are quite romantic 1T an
pears thut real estate agent named
mariana Fernandez. who was in charge
OF fme mouse No. l O'Farrell lane. de-
clares that he recently rented that
building to two we'll dressed young
men. The latter seemed to be hiehlV
respe ctable, hired the mouse for .tS.,
onths, and paid the rent in advance.
Ine building was poorly furnished, >tha
principal room In 1t containing only an
old table, wash stand n wardrobe. an
antique sideboard, six old chairs. six
plates and two cots. But the Young
men seemed TO be pleased with
nhelr surroundings and little or no no,
tlce was taken by the neiEhbors or
by anybody else. in spite OF The facl
mat the house was situated close TO tho
prison in which a young Cuban girl
whose Story caused such sensation in
the United States, was confined.
When the rooms of No | o,t.,rrou
iane were searched, the police, IN addi-
uion TO the articles already Described
round can OF paint. Il bag Of lime. and
a large brush, which might he used for
Fhe application OF either lime or rcfni
Inside the window through whic, Sea-
orita Cossio escaped the police discov
ered a bed sheet. and. as this aparcmant
was her sleeping room the authorities
are inclined TO believe the sheet wos
used by the escaping prisoner y envcl-
op herself, with the object of dcc:i living
nef room mates. if she was ,InIurl,,
enough to awaken them, into the bc
lief that She was moving alb out In her
night clothes
line quamer OF the prison which was
occupied by Scnorfta Cossio is known
as uhe New Hall, for the reason that II
va Vas constructed only seven months ago
1T was set apart for the use of poIitiral |
prisoners. and was quite comror,oblc
compared with other Spanish prisons
me companions Of the young Cuban
woman whom she left behind saw th,r
the day before Senorita Cossio esconn1
sne received a package, believed to have
contained drugged candies. In any
case, the Senorta contrary to her usual
CUSTOM Old not at once distribute rne
cdiules 10 her prison companions, bu:
Warted until Wednesday, might. when
she urged each of them to partako nf
the confections. The prisoners did so.
and they express the conviction that IN :
sweets were drugged. for they soon ar
terwards fell into a deep sleep and d;1
not awaken throughout Ithe night al
though the filing of the iron bar If lht
senoTita's bed room window mus have
caused enough noise To have awakened
the prisoners under ordinary cIrcum-
stances.
People living in the vicinity OF thr
casa de Recojidas have informed tho
authorities that they he6,rd the noise of
carriage wheels shortly before mjdnirh.
on Wednesday, and this fact Is ,,s.d
10 nave connection with the prisoners
escape. There ds division of o.,iu;,n
as to whether the escape of the senor.
fta was effected by Americans or hv
cuban insurgents. The police are hard
at work investigating the escape md nj
she Spanish authorities along the COS st
nave been communicated with, i'm .bo
belief that an attempt may he made n
embark the senorita upon som, vessn,
leaving Cuba for the United States nr
elsewhere
Fernandez the TALLER In charge of Tho
Casa de Recojldas. and four EMPLOYEES
p9 the government who were on d,Ity u
there, have been arrested and are con,
fined incommunicado, pending the rc-
suit OF the inquiry being made into thc
escape.
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