The age-herald., 1897-10-09
RATHER ROMANTIC
 WAS THE ESCAPE Of CenOrita EVanselina CiSnerOS From
 the Spanish Prison. THE PLAN WAS WELL LAID And Evidently Carried Out According to a Pre-ArranSed Programme. HER COMPANIONS GIVEN DRUGS In ihe Shape of Candy, to Prevent Their Interfering = Two Young Men, at
 Present Unknown, Thought to
 be Her Accompces.
HER COMPANIONS GIVEN DRUGS

EVangslina Cossio, otherwise Cossio Y Cisneros Exclusively reported in a, cable gram to the Associated Press last nigh) has caused quite a sensation in Havana.
 The investigation made by the author ftiss has developed a number of addi- tfonal facts in the case. It is now as- serted that the young woman escaped between Il o'clock and midnight of "Wednesday over the roof of a neighbor- ing house and through it to tha street bSilow O'Farrell lane and not into the street where the police found ladder On the roof of the adjoining house the authorities found three blanks, each about three feet long and eighteen inches wide joined together by strong hinges so as to serve as a bridge, enabling a person to pass from the roof of the prison to the roof of the house referred to. The authorities also found on the roof Smith & Wesson revolver of large calibre, hay ing it's SIX chambers loaded and a new kn5tted rope, which had evidently been used as a life line rope to enable tha es- caping prisoner to cross the plank bridge which had been extended by her accom- plices from th+ roof of the Casa De Re cojidas to the roof of the adjoining house.
 The revolver knotted rope, portabls bridge as we'll as other discoveries by ths police show that the escape of senor- tta Cossio was long and carafully planned. She must have been in con- stant communication with those who en- abled her to escape from the Casa De with eleven ether women.
 Some of the details of ths young Gu bans escape are quite romantic. It ap- pears that a real estate agent named Mariana Fernandez, who was in charge of the house No. 1, O'FaIrell lane, de- clares that he recently rented that build ing to two wsll-drsssed young men. The ladder seemed to be highly respectable, hired the house for two months and paid the rent in advance. The building was poorly furnished, the principal room in it containing am old table, @ wash stand, wardrobe, an antique side board, six old chairs and two cots. The young men seemed to be perfectly slatis- fled with their surroundings and lftt1s or no not:ca was taken by the neighbors or anyone else of them, in spite of the fact that the house was so close to the jail wherein a young Cuban girl was confined, whose story caused such sem sation in the United States.
 When the rooms al No. O'Farrell lane were searched by the police, in addition to the articles already enumerated, they found quantity of paint and "a number of brushes, which might r, used either for the application of lime or paint.
 Inside of the room from which Senorita Cisneros Cossio escaped the police found bed sheet, and as this apartment was her sleeping room, the authorities are in clined to believe the sheet was used by the escaping prisoner to envelope herself with the object of deceiving her room mates if she was unlucky enough to awaken them into the belief that sine was moving about in her night clothes. Thds quarter of the prison which was occupied by Senorita Cossio is known as the new hall for the reason that it w-s constructed only seven months ago. It was set apart for the use of political prisoners and was quite comfortable, compared with other Spanish prisons.
 The companions of the young Cuban woman, whom she left behind, say that the day before Senorita Cossio escaped
 she received a package believed to d1ave contained drugged candies In any case the senorita, contrary to her usual GUS dies to her prison companions, but wait ed until Wednesday night, when she urged each of them to partake of the connections. The prisoners did so, and they express the conviction that the sweets were drugged, for they sson afte-- wards fell intosa deep sleep and did not awaken throughout the night, although the filing of the iron bar of the sencritas bed room window must have caused enough noise to have awakened the pris- ons under ordinary circumstances.
 People living in the vicinity of the Casa de Recojidas have informed the au- thorities that they heard the noise of carriage wheels shortly before m:dmght on Wednesday. and this fact is suppore-'