The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-16
HALL A MILLION In A SOFA.
ryIDENCE BROUGHT FROM COSTA
RIGA Against RE0UESENS.

and souns OF tho HAD Money Issued In the
Alleged CounterreitinE ana Revolutionary
plot or Requoscns and Mrs. Reinenan.
The examination of Ricardo dc Roquesons and
Mrs. Eueenia Reineman. who were arrested on
Tine a. charged with counterfeitinR notes Of the
nank OF Costa Rica, will be begun before Com
missioner Shields to-day, and 1t promises to
bring out a story of forgery and OF conspiracy
AGAINST the Costa Rican Government which has
only been limited at heretofore.
Early yesterday morning the steamer Alene
arrived at this port from Costa Rica, having on
hoard Owen Owens and Patrick Luby, United
states secret service agents, In charge OF eight
witnesses against the prisoners. and a sofa in
which 4,o29 OF tho counterfeit notes, each Of tho
value Of 100 pesos, or $40, were concealed and
consigned to q young woman In Port Limon,
Costa RIGA.
Tho vessel was met at Quarantine by Chief
Hazcn Of tho secret service bureau in this city.
He went down tho bay on q tug, to which were
transferred tho persons and things connected
with the case. The notes were removed from
the sofa when II was seized at Port Limon and
were placed in a sealed packet, which the de-
tectives brought with them. The notes and the
sofa we're taken to the secret service bureau in
the Federal building, and tho eight witnesses
were there subjected to a long examination at
the hands of Chief HaZen.
The secret service men refused TO make pubic
any information bearing on the case in advance
OF the examination to-day, and every effort was
made to keep any one from seeing the witnesses.
Chief Iazcn would not even reveal their names.
They were spirited out OF the Federal building
and taken to the Hotel Bernard at Lexington
avenue and Thirtieth street, where Chancellor
Moreno of the Costa Rican Consulate resides.
The same secrecy was maintained by the Costa
Riran officials. Consul Delgado denied that he
knew anything at all about the matter except
reno also declined to talk Of tho matter, but it's
Importance to the Costa Rican Government is
shown BY the fact that Minister Galvq, who
caused the arrest of Requesens and Mrs. Refine
man, is expected here tomorrow to take per-
sonal supervision OF the case.
cashier OF the Bank of Costa Rica;, Gerardo
lglesias, a relative of President Rafael Iglesias
Chacon, two italian hotel keepers of Port
Limon A. Rocket, tally, clerk on the pier at
and francisco Maroto. A Sun reporter talked
with most Of these last night. but they all polite
L. regretted regret sd that they he F had been bound ,v5;1s to secrecy
ing silence regarding the criminal proceedings,
consented to say this much about the political
"Requesens and Mrs, Reineman travelled
through Costa Rica trying to stir up REVOLUTION,
country is satisfied with President Iglesias. /
was opposed to him politically before his cleo,
Of ability and integrity. There is no revolu.
tionary feeling in the country, and our pres
snee and testimony, here will have the effect Of
demonstrating this"
1t was learned yesterday that one of .Reques-
ems intimate friends was a former Costa Rican
said to have had aspirations at one time TO the
Presidency OF Costa Rica. Mr.. Fernandez was
tween Mora and Reguesens. He replied that he
did not. and added that Mora was expelled from
ofrevoiutienarg plans. but that every one sup.
posed that he had given up any such plans that
he might have had.
lane. He also manufactared Havana" cigar.
msnts to South and Central America. Mrs.
Reineman lived at 1873 West Fourteenth street.
have been engaged to Requesens. whose first
wife. an Anglo.American,, died several years
that she came here from Pittsburg a few months
before her arrest. When the two were arraigned
Commissioner Shields refused to accept the bail
ever since. Neither in the warrants on which
they were arrested nor in the atfidavits on
which the warrants were issued is there any in
timation that the prisoners are revolutionists or
eSonspirators against the peace Of the Costa
with q revolutionary plot is based upon Incl.
dental evidence put into Possession Of tho
Washington, and coming to the secret service
department here from Agents Owens and Luby
by the statement Of witness Fernandez.
About six weeks ago Mr.. Calvo informed Sec
rotary Gage that large quantities of bogus notes
had been made in this country and sent to Costa
Rica. consigned to persons suspected OF being at
the bottom of a revolutionary movement. The
counterfeiters. he said, were revolutionary
agents who took this means OF raising the nee
essary funds. Ten Of the notes had passed the
Bank Of Costa Rica itself before they were de-
tected. Mr.. Calvo gave the names of Requesens
and Mrs. Reineman as the persons suspected of
being at the head OF the counterfeiters and rev.
olutionists.
On this information Owens and Luby were
sent to Costa Rica five or six weeks ago, and
Chief Hazen has received a good deal of in
teresting information from them from time to
himself and the other officials interested. No
move TO apprehcnd ReQuesens and Mrs. Refine
man was made until Chief HaZen heard from
the two agents that they had sufficient evidence
against them and were about to return with the
witnesses.
II was in March that Requesens made his visit
TO Costa Rica, sailing from Now Orleans. He
was followed o week later by Mrs. Reineman.
Both told their friends here that they were
going to Chicago. Soon after their arrival Re-
Quesen1 was seized on President Iglesias'R order,
accused OF being q. revoiutionist, and was i'm
mediatcly deported. Certain documents of u
revolutionary nature were found to have been
sent to Costa Rica by Requesens ut that time, &C
eording to the reports made TO Chief Hazen, but
fsequesens denied responsibility for them, de-
claring that he had simply forwarded the cases
containing them in the course OF his business and
without knowing what they contained. Re-
quesenss friends maintain now that he Ia the
victim OF a plot on the part of enemies in Costa
hlca, and that IL he Is implicated in any wrong
qonR ~ Is as a cat5paw for some one standing
In the background. 1t Is said that the aggre-
100000
The sofa which the agents brought back with
theli was seized by the Costa Rican officials in
Aprll. II Is an ordinary red plush affair, worth
90 or ~, from which part of the upholstering
mad been removed to make room for the bad