The Paducah daily sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-02
BRUTAL TREATMENT.
OF American ScOtt.-Official
Correspondence Sent
to Senate.
Reveals the Truth of the Warship
Episode.

/ sfs'oe,'
| Washington, March 2.-Presiden
Cleveland yesterday sent to the Sen
ate correspondence relating to Amer
Iican citizens arrested in Cuba. Tn
most important are the kilograms II
the case OF Charles Scott, which ar
as follows, being kilograms sent b,
Consul General Fitzhugh Lee to TIN
state department. No replies from
the state department are given in thu
case.
On February 20 Mr.. Lee tele'
graphed as follows to the State De
partment:
Charles scott, n citizen OF the
United States, arrested at Regla.
No charge given. Been without
communication Jail Havana 264
hours. Cannot stand another Ruiz
murder and have demanded his re-
lease. How many war vessels Key
West, or within reach, and will they
be ordered here at once il necessary
to sustain demand1 LEE."
On the 22d he said in cable mes
sage:
Situation simple. Experience at
Guansbacoa made it my duty to de-
mand before too late that another
American who had been incommu-
nicado 26i hours be released from
said incummunicado, aud did 50 in
courteous terms. II you support it
and Scott is so released the trouble
will terminate. II you do not, |
mrst depart. All others ARRESTED
with Scott have been put in commu-
nication. Why should the only
American in the lot not be- lie has
been incommunicado now thirty
three hours. LEE.
Later, on the same day, the 23d,
Mr.. Lee wired:
Demand complied with. Scott
released from incommunicado today
on demand, after fourteen days sol
Itary confinement in cell five feet by
eleven, damp, water on bottom OF
cell. Not allowed anything TO SLEEP
on OF chair. Discharges from the
body removed once in five days,
Was chsraetI 49, 'N'.'~' a,
Laws went always twelve hours WIN
l'"y once two DAYS. lie wa
al employee of an American gas col"
pany. ,.,. oorrespond
ence Il that in the case OF oy'N,Se
lScoyel. correspondent oil the We
Work World, who was arreS'eu y =
rah Z The documents fnrhlsne
, show that Mr.. Lee promptly ho''n ~,
l,hc State Department ond lna ~ ="
I, n'osv responded Immediately d'rec
y ;na him to see that all OF scove'
ni',h,s "a an American citizen We
',oc,ed The letters and vel
< roms in this case run from the .
10 - tho 18th of February when "
90 informed the department 'ha'
competent lawyer had been seeu u,
~ detcnd Scoyel. lie had sald p
: v;onsly that he did not not anuc'P
= ",;ons trouble from this case
w later changed his opinion II
supposed that Scove' pore '. ,Sn nas
inc papers which gives the cas-
more serious aspect.
ON the 18th of February Gen,
err s.;d that Scovel was in a well We
lated cell, and that he had gCou
al . he'd at Saucti Spiritus,
~ which he added:
on ~. "Treaty rights have been resi- J,
VIC In hands OF civil jurlsdic'
,Sa, have sent a messenger 10 ''
,in' Wcen Lee tried to have y
j pe moved from Sanct Spiritus To
vana, but failed. ,,o,
NJ nThe remaining case cover
AZ that of f. J. Casanos' artes'e'
APP "a hut ON what charge does M
''on pear. a., ;rformati
the State Department was con
rning in a telegram of February J.,
sides this dispatch he conveys the ID
A. J. , ,iou Of she arrest, which he say o
nlace at Sagua, and says the u
report will follow auo'ne
caedinps a great outrage
= News cases here and elsewhere o. 0,
that island. Redress can be o.
accept a.o,
Kinley '', 20, the Goth Gen. Lee ST
rer,v to a message from TIN
Department that Casanos res
Mt. Saaua when arrested, and
\ nother had registered at Havana
this at American in 1872.
excite Evidently only the near
Of the end of the session ?
the precipitation Oh "no'"'
NJ" debate.
The Y. w. b. Z. u
y OF the Y w. Il. C. u. will me-
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