The age-herald., 1897-10-13
THE DAYS OF KNIGHT ERRANTRY REVIVED
HOW AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CoRRES-
 PoNDENT AND TWO AIDS
Effected the Rescue of Senorita Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros From a. Spanish Prison-The Butcher General OutgeneraI1ed- The Fair Maid
 Safe and Now Under the Protection
 of the Stars and Stripes.
of the Stars and Stripes.

The New York Journal, believing that on the eve of Weylers rscal1 the butcher would make a last effort to in some way dispose of Miss Evangelina Cisne- ros, decided to make a grand effort to rescue this beautiful Cuban girl. That it was successful fin the attempt is shown in the account of the affair which follows by Charles Duval, who conduct ed the rescue for the Journal. Accord ing to the Journal, Miss Cisneros is now safely under the stars and, stripes, but where, they refuse to divulge.
 The following is the story written by MT Duval and telegraphed from Ha- vana via Key West, last Sunday night to his paper. three days after he had rescued the girl from the Cuban prison, giving the full details of the event and how it was accomplished:
 Evangelina Cossfay CisrIsros is at last at liberty, and the Journal can place to its credit the greatest journalistic coup of this age. It is an illustration of the methods of new journalism, and it win find an indorsement in the heart of every woman who has read of the horrible sufferings of the poor girl who has been confined for fifteen long months in Recojldas prison.
 The Journal, finding that all other m=thods were unavailing, decided to se- cure her liberation through force, and this, as the specially selected commfs- sioner of the Journal I have succeeded in doing.
 I have broken the bars of Recojidas and have set free the beautiful captive of monster Wleyler, restoring her to her friends and relativss, and doing by strength, skill and strategy what could mot be accomplished by petition and ur- gent request of the Pope.
 Weyler could blind the qusen to the real character of Evangelina, but he could not build a jail that would hold against Journal enterprise when prop erly set to work.
 Tonight all Havana rings with the story. It is the ona topic of conversa- tion; everything else pales into insignif- canoe. No one remembers that there has been a changs in the ministry. What II Weyler IS LO go!
 EvangeIna Cisneros has escaped from the jail thought by every one to be abso- autely impregnable.
 A plot had been matched right ins the heart of Havana-a desperate plot, as shown by the revolver found on the roof of the house through which ti1e escape was effected, and as the result of this plot, put into effect under the very nose of Spanish guards, Evangelina is free. gIow was it done? How could it have been done?
 These are questions asked tonight by the frequenters of the cafes, small bode- gas, boticas and barberias throughout the city where the Habaneros congre- gate. It is conceded by all, by the off, c.als of the palace included, to be the most daring coup of the history of the war, and the very audacity of the deed is paralyzing.
 No one knows where Evangelina is now or can know. To the story of the escape, briefly; came here three weeks ago. having been told by the editor of fine Journal to go to Cuba and rescue from her prison Miss Cisneros, the niece of the former president of the Cuban republic, a. tenderly reared girl, descend Vo lOHh OfC VI luC OcSl ldIlliGS III lfle island, and herself martyr to the un- satisfied desires of a beast in Spanish uniform.
 I arrived at Cienfuegos late in Sep tember. telegraphed to a known and tried man in Santiago de Cuba to meet me In Havana, and then went to Santa Clara, where I picked up a second man, known to be as gritty as Sahara. and then proceeded to Havana. Here I re- mained in almost absolute concealment so as to avoid the spies that dog ones steps wherever one may go and make Impossible any clever work of this kind Both the men who accompanied me. Joseph Hernandon and Harrison Nal . lory, pursued the same course, and re- nlained quiet until all plans had been completed.
 The fact that Miss Cisnoros was in- communicable made the attempt seem at first beyond the possibility of success, but we finally, through Hernandon. who was born on the island and speaks Span- dsh like a native. succeeded in sending a note to her through an old negress,