The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-15

or Alcalde, but ne wanted $4,000 for the
job and positive assurance that he and
his family could get to the United
States. This was too rich proposition
for me"
Mr.. Decker repeated the story of the
rescue from the jail as already told in
his DISPATCHES, and then related what
happened after the girl was out of the
prison. He said:
when Senurfta CoSsio Cisnero5
entered OUT shanty adjoining the jail,
we let her rest a. few moments and
then took her to a cart waiting outside
and drove to the house of a friend. The
friend was holding a reception that
night, which was a part OF the PLAN
The man who drove the carriage was
one of the conSpirators. Senorita
Cisneros was
EXHAUSTED FROM EXCITEMENT
when she reached the house, but did
not give way. On Thursday morning
she was taken to the home of q friend
where she remained in secrecy until
Saturday afternoon
'fTo reach the steamer safely she was
obliged to walk down ObisDo street,
the principal thoroughfare of Havana,
at time when the street was crowded,
and yet take her time and smoke a
cigar. If she had skulked about the
back streets she would Immediately
have been suspected. 1t was over a
mile from the house to the pier. She
had passport made out under an
assumed name. All the steamships
anchor out in the stream. The senorita
walked down from the house, clad as
q, rancI1er, and my companion and I
followed She sauntered along IeisureIy
and once in a while glanced about to
see If we we're following. We motioned
her to SO on. She grew more confident
as she went along, but we could see
that 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 HOUSE SEARCH
was begun and would have been kept
UP had urlt j. telegram from Minister
DupuSvie Lone at Washington informed
the authorities of his belief that the
senUTtta was on the hig.n ssas and ex-
pected amy day in New York Then
Weylsr was mad. He threw the JalIor
| Jose QIs11tana in jail, Y1aeGeupon the
jailor told about my attempting 10
! bribe him. This, IN connection with 1hre
surmfse of LIE Lone, placed suspicion
ON me. I gave it out that was going
10 take steamer for Mexico. There
WIS only CHE steamer leaving Sunday
| and THAT was q Spanish steamer. [
wasted for instructions from New York
and had almost made up my MIND to
start Sunday. Instructions or no m
} structtuns. My Instructions came, hap
PLY.
MY passport was made out in the
| name of Carl Decker. In order to make
! gauntlet, I must get my passport re-
viged and stamped with the seal of the
secretary of the captain general. I
| lurlew that my passport would never
/ have been signed and learned that am
order for my arrest was determined on,
and THAT l was to be ARRESTED at 5
| O'Clock Monday morning. I was in a
! bad pickle. | got a glimpse of the
! writing of Senior CaTjoval, the secretary
of General Weyler, and copied Il so That
had It down fine. Then I forged the
VIZ signature. I determined TO do with
out the seal AT the last moment I went
| to the wharf and took the launch fer
tine steamship. The Inspector
LOOKED AT MY PASSPORT
arlH asked where the seal was. as
surned a nonchalant air as best I courd
/ arld told MIN thai Senior Carjoval was
at the Ingle Terre hotel, and, having
I no S5t9l, ne SiSgl61 ms name TO a state
nlent sayfng 1T was all night The I'M
spectcr ilealtated and showed thu sig
nature to another inspector and he said
an right and was safe. Nearly all the
Americans take the American kne
THEY did not Think to guard the Pana-
ITla- and watch for me-. They aITezI. al
prisoners at 5 O'Clock in the morning
They were sure I would be In town or
that day and they were fooled"
SenpgGta CosSio y Clsneros received g
nGTYSber of visitors at the Motel Waldorf
today, among them General Julio San
guilty. Henry George, Tom L. Johnson
a1Ed ex- Postmaster Charles w. Dayton
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