The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-26
OFFICIAL VERSION OF THE FACTS
FROM THE STANDPOINT
OF SPAIN.
GIRL NOT YET SENTENCED.
CISNEROS SENSATION PUNCTURED
If THE SPANISH MINISTER
TELLS THE TRUTH.
REPLY TO MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS
An Appeal for C1emency Made by
Cable to Her Majesty by Amer
lean Women.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-In response
to an appeal cabled to the queen of
Spain by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other no.
table American women, urging Glenn
ency for the young girl, Miss Cossle
Cisneros, incarcerated at Havana by
the Spanish military authorities and
who it was reported was to be exiled
to the penal colony at Ceuta, Africa,
the resident Spanish minister, Dupuy
de LONE, has addressed the following
letter to Mrs. Davis. giving the Of
fetal Spanish version of the arrest Of
the young Cuban and the alleged rea-
sons for her detention and proposed
trial:
LENNOX, Mass. Aug. 25.-Mrs. Varina JEFF
ferson Davis-Dear Madame: Don Juan Du
Boso, first secretary of the Spanish legation,
who went to see you in my name has report
ed to me the conversation he has had the
honor Of having with you Saturday last. l
have not failed to convey to her majesty, the
queen through her minister of state, the
graphed to her majesty and l have also re-
ported the words you have expressed in your
conversation.
Mr.. Du Boso told you that when your
cablegram was received the queen and the
Spanish government had no knowledge of
the arrest of Miss Cossie Cisneros and also
as 1t was received to report to her the merits
of the case, and had been pleased to COM
mand me to inform you, if your message
was true. that she had received it favor
ably with all regard to a lady so worthy
OF respect as you are.
The information received from Cuba by
the Spanish government and laid before
her majesty and transmitted to me by cable
shows, in my opinion, that a shameless con-
Splracy to promote the interest of one or more
sensational papers is at the bottom of the
romance that has touched your heart. The
facts show that Miss Cisneros lured to her
mouse the military commander of the island
of Pinos and had men concealed in it, who
tried to assassinate him, in connection with
an uprising of the prisoners in the island.
For that offense, far from being condemned
and being ready to be transported to penal
settlement in Africa, she has not yet been
tried the public prosecutor has not yet pre-
scented the case for the government; he has
not yet, as is requisite of our law, asked
sentence to be imposed on her, and the
case Is not yet ready to be finally disposed Of.
These facts are very easy to prove. The
American consul general or any of the foreign
consuls in Cuba, willing to get information,
can convince themselves of the truth and
could have been applied to by the papers
which have started this sentiment, if they had
really been prompted by sentiment of hui
the desire of increasing their circulation by
their usual slandering methods.
l nave 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 favorably disposed to re-
| spond to your earnest plea and 1 am instruct
| ed to add that the case stands and be-
| fore the trial has been completed and a
| sentence imposed, she is not allowed by the
| law to interfere but that instructions have
been communicated to the governor general
| OF cuba to bring a speedy trial and to grant
| to Miss Cossie all possible consideration