The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-10-15
It READS LIKE A TALE
The Escape OF Evangelina Cis-
neros and Her Rescuer.
IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM
A Warrant Was Out for Deckers Ar
rest He Forged a Signature TO
Passport and Took a Spanish
Steamer to New York.

New York. nci ii.-carl Decker. one
81 tho rcscurrs of Evangclina cossio y
Cisneros from the Casa De Recoiidas
Havana. arrived In this ciIy On the
Spanish line steamer Panama this
afternoon. He was met down the hay
by number or newspaper men and
said
II was commissioned to gu Ia cuba
aud deliver Scnorita cnsSio y cisncrns
from the iiithy Rocoiidas prison,
started from New York Aug. .. deter
mined To free the woman. though I did
not see my way clear as Ia the plan
10 he adopted. After reaching Havana
many plans suggested themselves la
me, hut each one proved impraciicahl,
| iiied 10 bribe the jailer uf the llcaldr
but he wanted slG.oo0 for the job and
positive assurance ihnt he and his fam
ily could got la The United States
This Was too rich "A proposition Tor
me-"
MIR Decker repeated the story nf the
rescue from the iail. AS already told in
his dispat ches. and then related what
happened after tn. girl was out OF the
prison. He said,
When Scnorita Cossin y cisneros en-
tered our shanty. adjnining the jail. We
lci her rest a fcs moments and then
took her In "A cart waiting outside aud
drove To the houke uf "A friend. The
friend was holding a reception thar
night. which waa a part Of the plan.
The man who drove the carriage was
one of the conspbators. Senorita cis-
h.rus WAS exha,isicd from excitement
when she reached the house. hut did
not give way. TIN Thursday morning
shr MAS taken Ia the hnrnc of friend.
where she remained IN secrecy untl
saturday afternoon.
To reach the steamer safely she was
obliged 10 walk down Ahispo street. the
principal thoroushfarr uf Havana. ai
time when the street WAS crowded.
and Yea take her tim. and smoke "A ,-i-
ear. II she had skulk.d about thc
hacR streets SHE would Immediately
have bcrn suspected. Ia was over
mile from the hous' to the pier. Th"
- nurita walked down from III, hous"
clad az a rarcher and my companion
and | followed. She got on the launch
and "" waited. and when the launch
returned from the vessel aud she was
not on IL We knew thar the scheme had
worked like charm.
The day after the jailhrcak the
town WAS astir over the ESCAPE of Sem
uriia cossio y cisnerus. house Ia
house search was begun and II would
have been kept up had not "A telegram
from Minister Dupuy de LONE at
WASHINGTON Informed the authorities
of his belief that IN. srnuritn was on
the high seas aud expected any day I'm
New N.rk. Then Weylrr Mas mad.
He threw thr taller. Jose puintnna. in
jan whor,.uunn the iailrr told about
my attempting tu brilr him. This. i'm
connection with the surmisp nf de
l.nnu. placed yuspicion on mo. I gave
II out that Was going tn take A
steamer for Mexico. There WAS only
one steamer having Sunday and that
was u Spanish steamer | waited for
Instructions from New York and had
almost made my mind To start SUNDAY.
instructions nr no instructions. My i'm.
strurtions came. happily.
My passport was maha out In the
name ~ Cnil Bnckcr. In order tu catch
the Panama Sunday night aud run The
gauntlet. l must yet my psssputi 10
Nis,d and STAMPED with the seal nf
the secretary uf the captain general A
knew that my passport would never hc
signed aud I learned thai an order for
my arrest was drt, rminrd ON. and that
! wah 10 De arrested ri . o'clock Mon