The age-herald., 1897-10-15
BRAVE DECKER
 NOW IN NEW YORK ReSCuer of Senorita Envangelina
 Cossio y Cisneros IN THE LAND OF THE FREE From Whence He Sailed on a Mission
 Frausht With Danger, ALL OF WHICH HE BRAvELY EvADED After Accomplishing His Brand of
 Mercy He Found Himself IN MOST DESPERATE POSITION On All Sides Officers and Men Sought Him in Havana, But Like the Charming Pris-
 oner He Gave Them the Slip and
 Made Good His Escape.
After Accomplishing His Brand of
 Mercy He Found Himself
IN MOST DESPERATE POSITION

New York, Oct. 14.-Karl Decker, one of the rescuers of Evangelna Cossio Y Cisneros from the Casa de Recojidas, Havana, arrived in this city on the Spanish line steamship Panama this aft ernoon. GIe was met down the bay by a number of newspaper men, and said:
 q was commissioned to go to Cubn and deliver Senorita Cossfo Clsneros from the filthy RecoJidas prison. started from New York Aug. 2S determ- ined to free the woman, though I did moi see my way clear as to the plan to be adopted. After reaching Havana many plans suggested themselves to me, but each one proved impraIcticalble. I tried to brfbe the Jaf1er or alcalde, but he wanted $16,O0O for the job and pos;- live assurance that he and his family could get to the Limited States. This was too rich proposition for me-"
 MT. Decker repeated the story of the rescue from the jail as already told in in his dispatches, and then related what happened after the girl was out of the prison. He sa1d:
 rWhen Senorita Cossio Y Cfsneros en- tered our shanty adjoining the jail we let her rest few moments and then took her to a carriage waiting outside and drove to the house of friend. The friend was holding reception that night, which was a part of the plot. The man who drove the carriage was one of the conspiratofs. SenorFta Cossio Cfsneros was exhausted from excite rnent when she reached the house, but she did not give way.
 "On Thursday morning she was taken to the home of friend, where she re- nained in secrecy until Saturday af er- noon.
 ITO reach the steamer for New York She was obliged to walk down Oblsho street, the principal thoroughfare of Ha- vana, at time when the street was crowded and take her time and smoke A cigar. If sine had sl1ulked about the back streets she would immediately have been suspected. It was over r,ale from the house to tho pier. She had z. pass port made out under an assumed name. All the steamships anchor out in the stream. Senlorita Cossoi Y Cisneros walked down from the house, clad as a ranchero, and any companion and I fol- nou g,ab fy,1 Cha ure1y, and once in while turned about to see if we were following. We mo- tioned her to go on. She grew more con fdent as she went along, but we could sec thaIt she was under a strain. She got on the launch and we waited, and when the launch returned from the vessel and she was not on it we knew that the scheme had worked like a charm
 "The day after the jail break the town was astir over the escape of Senorita Cossio Y. Cisneros; house to hous. search was begun and would have been kept up had not telegram from Minis ter Dupuy de Lome at Washington in- formed Weyl=r that the girl was on the high seas and expected to arrive in New York any day. Then Weyler was mad. He threw the ja:lor, Jose Quin- tana, in jail, whereupon the jailor told about my attempting to bribe him. This. in connection with the dispatch of De Lome, placed suspicion on me. I gave it out that I was going to take a steamer to Mexico. There was only one steamer leaving Sunday and that was a Spanish steamer. I waited for instructions from New York and had almost made up my mind to start Sunday, instructions or no instructions. My instructions came hap oily.
 My passport was made out in thet name of Karl Decker. In order to take the Panama Sunday night and run the gauntlet it was necessary to get my passport vised and stamped with the