The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-09
MISS CISNEROS ESCAPE.
Eow the Beautiful Cuban 0utwit-
ted Her Spanish Jailers.


Gave Her Fellow Prisoners Drugged
Candies in Order to Prevent Them
Hearing tho Noise of Saving Her
Prison Bars.
Havana. Oct. 9.--The escape of Sen-
srita Evangelina Cassie. otherwise Cas-
sio y Cisneros, the beautiful young
Cuban patriot. heroine of the sensa-
ttonal adventure with the Spanish
Governor Berez. has caused quite Il
sensation In Havana II is now as
serted that the young woman escaped
between II o'clock and midnight Of
Wednesday over the roof Of neigh
boring house. and through it to the
street below O'Farrell lane, and not
into the street where the police found
A.hand ladder.
On the roof of the adjoining house
the authorities found three planks. each
about three feet long and Is inches
wide. Joined together by strong hinges.
10 as to serve as bridge. enabling
= 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
oaliber, having its six chambers load
ed, and a new knUtted rope, which had
evidently been used as a life line, or
guiding rope to enable the escaping
prisoner to cross the plank bridge
which had been extended by her ac-
Complices from the house near the Casa
dc Recojdas to the roof of that prison.
The revolver, the knotted rope, and the
portable bridge, as well as other dis
coveries made by the police. show that
the escape of Scnolita Cassie was long
and carefully planned. She must have
been in constant communication with
those who enabled her to escape from
the Casa de Ricojldas, where she was
imprisoned with II other women.
Some Of the details Of the young
Cuban's escape are quite romantic. 1t
appears that u real estate agent named
Mariana Fernandez, who was In charge
OF the house at No. / O'Farrell lane,
declares that he recently rented that
building to two well dressed young
men. The latter seemed to be highly
respectable. hired the house for two
months and paid the rent in advance.
Little or no notice of them was taken
in spite of the fact that the house was
situated close to the prison in which
. young Cuban girl whose story caused
such a sensation in the United States.
was confined.
inside The window through which
Renorita Cassie escaped the police dis
covered bed sheet, and, as this apart
ment was her sleeping room. the au-
thorties are Inclined to believe that
the sheet was used by the escaping
prisoner to enVelop herself, with the
object of leceiving her roommatcs, II
she was unlucky enough to awaken
them, into the belief that she was
moving about In her night clothes.
The companions cf the young Cuban
woman whom she left behind say that
the day before stenOrita Cassie escaped
shc received package, believed to havc
contained drngged candies. The senor-
1ta contrary to her usual custom, did
not at once distribute the candles to
her prison companions, but waited until
Wednesday night. when she urged each
of them to partake Of the confections.
The prisoners did SO, and they express
the conviction that the sweets were
1rrgged, for they soon afterwards fell
into deep sleep, and did not awake
throughout the night although the fill
ing of the iron bar of the senorlta's
bedroom window must have caused
enough noise to have awakened the
prisoners Nnder ordinary circumstance
People living in the vicinity of the
Casa &c Recojldas have Informed the
authorities that they heard the noise
Of carriage wheels shortly before mid
night on Wednesday, and this fact is
supposed to have connection with the
prisoners escape.
There Is division of opinion as to
whether the escape of the senorita was
effected by Americans or by Cuban in
surgents. The police are hard at work
Investigating the escape, and all the
Spanish authorities along the coast
have been communicated with, in the
belief that an attempt may be made to
embark the acnorita upon some ves-
sci leaving Cuba for the United States
or elsewhere.
Fernandez, tn" jallcr in charge of the
Casa de Recojidas, and frur employees
of the government who were on duty
there, have been arrested pending the
result of the inquiry being made into
the escape.