The morning times., 1897-01-18
WEyLER's WAR ON WOMEN !.
The Captain General Treats
Them in a Merciless Manner.
NUNS THROWN INTO PRISON
Four sisters CT Cha rity Confined
in Cells at Remedios--Sufferer
in Hospital Killed and the
Building Bnrned-Many Women
Commit Suicide.

Regarding the mcrciless persecutions
by Capt. Gen. Wegler. of patriotic women
unfortunate enough to fall into the hands
OF his troops in the field Mr. George
Eugene Bryson, one of the Havana cor
respondents OF the New York Journal,
writes as follows:
Senorita Antonia Romero, a Cuban ANA
zon, was captured in Havana yesterday by
the local police and thro wn into military
prison. She was until about six weeks
ago member OF an insurgent band oper-
ating around Remedies, in Santa Clara
province. She was captured by Spanish
troops and taken5to Caibarien. Through
the aid OF friends she escaped and came
to this city fortnight ago Intending,
ain told, TO embark for the United States.
Failln6 In her attempts to obtain pass
port 20 leave the island, she determined
TO reJoin the rebel army, but when about
TO leave the city was recognized and ar
rested by suburban police on picket duty.
she VIII be transferred TO Remedies for
trial by court-uartial charged with re-
bellion and incendiarlsm. She refused the
pardon offered her il she would give eVi-
dence in behalf OF the crown against Fe
lipe ParaIno, leader OF the band TO which
she belonged, who Is also now q prisoner
ana at Remedies awaiting court-martial.
La Lucha ArteiniSa correspondent re-
ports That the government troops at Ca yH-
jabos, under Col. Retger, captured two
women-Angela Rodriguez and Mariana
Cardenale-who We're fighting in the rebel
ranks. Both have since been brought 30
Havana for trial.
In a Spanish raid upon Cuban hospital
near Remedies four women, foreigners,
dressed as Sisters OF Charity in attendance
upon the sick and wounded Cuban officers
and soldiers, were captured. They are in
prison at Remedies. Every one else cap
tured in the hospital is reported To have
been macheted upon the spot, and the
buildings were aftcrward burned down over
the dead.
Near san Jose de Los Ramos the Spanish
guerrllas OF Managuises killed Cuban
pacifico, Aurelto Rodriguez, and brought
his wife a prisoner with the body of her
husband into town, where the body was
dragged, tied to a horses tail, as a trophy
of victory by the captain OF the guerrilla
force. The heartbroken widow was com
PEELED by her captors to abandon her three
small children, one baby, in the woods,
where She had hidden them when the guer-
rillas were seen approaching.
Word comes from Puerto Principe, via
Neuvitas that sister of the Marquis de
Santa Lucia, the patriot president, and the
wives or more than twenty prominent
Cubans have been thrown into military
prisons there under instructions from Wey-
Ter, and that Spanish police or soldiers
have been placed as spies in the private
residences OF numerous other native fam
lilies having relatives in the rebel ranks.
The house OF refuge forfallen women here
In Havana is crowded with respectable
Cuban women, wives and sisters or daugh-
ters of rebel leaders in the field, who, for
this cause alone, have been dragged from
their homes and imprisoned With people
Of the very lowest moral Character
Suicide, I am told, has followed more
than one such arrest, the victims prefeuing
death to degradation and dshonorable as
sociation IS'
The residence OF Luciano Galletti, widow
Of serrano, one or the supposed victims of
Fondeviela's so-calIed activity, came to
Havana after her husband S disappearance,
abandoning her home The unoccupied resi-
dence was burned last night and two ad-
Joining buildings were also destroyed. OF
ficial reports of the fire allege it to haze
been the work of incendiaries
Among the prisoners shot at Cabana Cas-
tie this week under court-martial sen
tences for rebellion were man OF fity-six
and his son of twenty, the former, Claudio
Perez, native Of Huelvia Spain, the lat
ter, Jose, Cuban by birth. They were
executed kneelng side by side. The scene
brought tears Of sympathy to the eyes even
OF the officers and guards delegated by
Weyler To kill them
The extra Iol;ce placed around the United
States consulate here during the excite
ment Christmas week are still on duty.
Spanish secret service men are kept stand
ing al out the corridors of the consular
building to SPOT naturalized Americans call
ing uron Consul General Lee and also to
prevent ubans visiting the ournal bureau
Matthew Kersey, of Alexandria, Va, who
came to Cuba over a year go on the tug
Mascot, is in a Sranish prison, or military
hospital at Gibara, in Eastern Cuba Senor
Beola, American consular representative
there, seems to have done nothing in Ker-
sey's behalf. Beola is an American citizen,
but is a Spaniard in sentiment, and con-
nected with the local volunteer corps, a
Spanish military organization.