The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-11
wEYLER WANTSTHEM DEAD
THIRTY WELL-KNoWN OUBANs AC-
OUSED as DYNhMlTERS.

The TRIBUNAL Ordered 70 Pass sehtsnce-wey
Ter Says tho EHtrndition OF seme or These
nIen Now Here Will Ne Derssndea or Our
Government-They Are Net DynarniteFs.
HAVANA, Juno 4.-The military tribunal
which Is in charge OF tho proceedings against
many important and well.known persons of
Havana, who are being prosecuted as dyna-
mitcrs, has received orders from Gen. Weylcr to
hasten the matter and pass sentence. Owing TO
the position and family influence Of some Of
these persons and the lack OF evidence against
them, tho tribunal has been delaying the pro-
codure. There is no truth whatever in tho
charges against these persons, but Weyler
wants them killed.
Those who arc adjudged by tho tribunal to DO
guilty will be sentenced to death. while those
who arc declared to be implicated In q lesser
degree will undergo life imprisonment in chains.
These are the only punishments provided In the
special law against %dynamiters which has boon
promulgated in Cuba by Weyler. It was hoped
that Weyler would DO recalled and Martinez
Campos sont here to replace him. in which event
It was thought that this attempt to railroad in.
nocent persons to death would be stopped. But
under the recent order of weyler tho death
sentence is likely to be signed.
The military tribunal has sent q note to tho
civil Judges in Havana and to the police asking
information about tho conduct, during times OF
peace. of the thirty persons who are now under
prosecution. some of them are In tho United
States and others are in Jail in Havana or on the
Chafarinas Islands and at Ceuta, near the North
African coast, charged with political offences.
The accused persons in the United States,
whose cxtradition Weyler announces will DO dc.
manded from the American Government, are:
Francisco Urrutia, Fernando Diaz, Manuel
Diaz. Secundino Delgado, N. Figueredo. jose
IT, Un1,lnrnu Irhark do nla~I narttN
Aranguren, jose Llanusa Ramon. Manuel Car
dona, Julian Tirso valdes. Domingo valdes. N.
Pla, Alfredo Hernandez Huguet, Armada Andre,
and Alfonso Lopez.
The efforts of Weyler to secure the extra.
dition of these persons as common criminals. II
he carries out his word, will certainly result in
failure. Their only crime is that they are politi.
cally opposed to Spain, and while they are
prosecuted now as dynamiters, the real basis Of
their offending is that they have held. while in
Havana, political relations with the insurgents
or with the New York ,Junta. The last men
toned, Senior Alfonso Lopez, was President of
the Cuban Junta in Havana. ,-
The fate of those who are already In Spanish
jails is far more dubious. Those who are pris-
oners at Ceuta arc DR.. Alfredo Zayas. DR.. Con-
zalez Lanuza. Francisco Alday. Adolfo Diaz, and
Ignacio Lamas. The two first mentioned are
distinguished Cuban lawyers, and DR.. Lanuza is
enowned for his talent as an orator.
In Jail in Havana are Ceferino Vega, Serafn
Martinez. Ramon Ruanes. Adriano Silva,
Gumersindo Atalay, Francisco Massana. and
Armando de los Rios. The last named is under
% years of age and has proved himself q hero.
He has been tortured several times to extort
from him a denunciation Of the other prisoners
and, although tho tortures have at times de-
prived him Of his senses, he has always an
swered that he knew Of no dynamiters. and that
his only crime was that he hated Spain and the
Spaniards.
In the process appears the name of one Miguel
Beato Gutierrez. This name is purposely dis.
torted by the Spaniards. Tho real man is Miguel
Beato Betancourt, but he was the Spanish spy
who denounced the others and the proceedings
against him are mere pretence.