The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-26
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MRS.DAVISANSWERED|
Minister Dupuy De LONE States tie
Case OF S.norita Cisneros.
AxERlCANwoMEN URGED CLHMENcY.
lntercession With the Queen Re-.
cclved Favorable Consideration.
OFFICIAL SPANISH VERSION.
Newspapers Of the United states
AMERICANA WOMEN URGED CLHMENcY.
OFFICIAL SPANISH VERSION.
Charged with Manufacturing
Sensational Romance.

New York, August cS.--In response to or
appeal cablcd to tho queen Of Spain b.
Mrs. jefferson Davis. Mrs. Elizabeth Cad,
Stanton and other notable American wo.
men, urging clemcncy for tho young girl
Evangelne Cisneros. incarcerated Ivy tho
Spanish at Havana, ard who. II was re.
ported. was to be cxilcd to the penal col
ony of Ceuta, Africa, {. resident Spanish
minister. Senior Dupuy ~ LONE. has I'D
dressed tho following letter to Mrs. Davis
giving the official Spanish version OF the
arrest of the young Cuban and the allcge<
reasons for her detention and proposed
trial: F
Mrs varina Jefferson Davis. Narragansetl
Pier. II. L.:
Lcnnox, Mass. August ai.---Dcar Mad,
am: Don Juan du Buso. first secretary o.
tho royal Spanish legation. who went u
sec you in my name, has reported to me-
the conversation he has had the honor o
having with YOU Saturday last. have no
failod to convey TO her majesty the queen
through her minister OF state, the Duke Of
Tetuan that you had really tclegraphct
10 her majesty, and l have also reported
the noble words YOU have expressed IT
your conversation. Mr., pu Boso told yo,
when yonr cabcgram was received tho
Spanish government had no knowledge o.
Miss Evangolino Cosso Cisneros. and also
that her majesty had givo0 orders as soot
as II Was received 10 report TO her the
merits of the case, and had beer
pleased to command me TO inform you II
your message was true, that she received II
| favorably and with all regard due 10
| lady so worthy OF respect as you are.
Tho information received from Cuba b!
| the Spanish government and laid before
| her majesty, and that transmitted 20 m,
| by cable, shows, IN my opinion, that
| Shameless conspiracy 10 promote the In {
| forest of Que or mere sensational new6paf
| pers Ia ut the bottom OF the romance tina
has touched your good heart. The facts
| show that Miss Evangellue Cossio Cisneroi
| lured to her house tho military commander
| Of the Isle OF Pines aud had men concealed
| In II, who tried to Assasainatc him IN con
ncctIon with an uprising OF tho prisoners
| IN the island For that 0ffensc far from
| being condemned and belFs ready 70 y
4 tiAnrpuitei ~ 4iien.l ~ slesnont iHfhfrica
| she has not set heas tried; the publi
| prosecutor las not yet presented the cas-
| for the government. he has not yet as y
n requisite of our law. asked a sentence u
| be imposed on her. and the case In no
yet roaly 10 be finally disposed or These
, facts are very easy to prove. Tho Amer
lean consul general, or any Of the foreign
| cons,iis In Cuba willing TO get Informal
| ton can convince themselves OF the trutl
and could have been applied to by thu
| papers which have started this accusation
II they had not really been prompted b,
the desire of increasing their circulation
by their unusual EIanderous methods. Thu
absolute falsehood OF the press pubiica
TORS In rotation TO concrete facts relate,
| with the cnhe is not faysrable certainly 4
the exactitudo OF the considerations VIII
which the innocence OF the accused person
rreicnds 10 be proved.
have the honor OF giving YOU tho infor
nation, By order OF her na1es'y, and To In
form Won by her special command. that ph'
is woli and fayorably disposed 10 rospon'
to your earnest plca. and ] am Instructed
| To add that, M tho case STANDS ana beior
the trial has bean completed and sen
| tone. Imposed she IL not allowed by IN
law to Interfere. but that instruction
have been communicated to Tho governo
general Of Cuba 10 bring speedy trial an
TO grant Mics clsneros all possible conrid
oraticn. am, madam, very respccffu'l
yours, Enrique Dupuy de LONE.