The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-14
A WELL PLANNED AFFAIR
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
ESCAPE OF sENORITA CIsNEROs
FROM A CUBAN PRISON.
HAO ACCOMPuCES IN NEXT HOUSE
Two Strange Women Had Recently
Rented the Adjoining HOuse-The
SenOrita's Cell Mates Were
Fed on Dragged Candy.

Havana, Oct. S.-The escape of Seno-
rita Evangelina Cassie, otherwise Cassie
Cisneros Exclusively reported in cable
gram to the Associated Press last night,
has caused quite sensation in Havana.
The investigation made by the authori-
ties has developed n number of addi-
tional facts in the case. 1t is now as
serted that the young woman escaped
between IL o'clock and midnight on
Wednesday over the roof of an adjoin-
ing house and through it to the street be-
low, and not into the street where the
police found hand ladder. On the roof
of the adjoining house the authorities
found three planks so as to make n bridge,
enabling Il person to pass from the roof
of the prison to the roof of the house re-
ferred to. Senorita Cassie must have
been in constant communication with
those who enabled her to escape from
the Casa de Rocojidas where she was
imprisoned with eleven other women.
Some of the details of the young Cuban
girls escape are quite romantic. 1t ap-
pears that real estate agent named
Mariana Fernandez, who was in charge
of the house, No. l O'Farrell Lane, de-
| clares that he recently rented that build
ing to two well dressed young women.
! The latter seemed to be highly respecta-
1 BILE and hired the house for two months
| paying the rent in advance. The build.
ing was poorly furnished. the principal
room in it containing only an old table
a wash stand, wardrobe, an antique
sdeboard, six old chairs and six plates
But the young women seemed to be per
fectly satisfied with the surroundings anC
little or no notice of them was taken b,
the neighbors or anybody else. in spit'
of the fact that the house was situated
close to the prison in which a younl
sensation in the United States, was con
fined. When the rooms at No. l O'Far
rell Lane were searched the police, i
addition to the articles already described
found a bag of lime, u can of paint an
n large brush which might have bee
used for the application of either lin
or paint. Inside the window throug
[ which the girl escaped the police discoN
cred bed sheet. and this apartment wa
= sleeping room, which leads the author
! ties to believe that the sheet was use
:, by the escaping prisoner to envelope hel
self, with the object of deceiving her ROOF
, mates, if she was unlucky enough {
awaken them, into the belief that sh
was moving about in her night clothes.
| Ut VI tut touhS ,up"
woman whom she left behind say tina
the day before Senorita Cassie ESCAPED
she received a package believed to hav,
contained drugged candies. In any case
the senorita contrary to her usual Gus
tom, did not at once distribute the can
dies to her prison companions, but waited
till Wednesday night when she gave
them to her companions. The prisoners
expressed the opinion that the sweets
were drugged, for they soon afterwards
fell into deep sleep ard did not awaker
throughout the night, though the filing OF
the iron bar at the senorita's bed room
| window must have caused enough noise
| to have awakened the prisoners under or
binary circumstances.
There is division of opinion as tc
| whether the escape of the senorita was
| effected by Americans or Cuban insur
| gents. Fernandez. the jailer in chargc
! of the Casa de Rocojidas. and four EN-
ployes of the government who were OF
| duty there have been arrested and arc
confined ncommunicado pending the re
suit of the inquiry being made into the
I eSclDp.