Washington sentinel., 1898-07-02
NO 2
A Victim OF Spanish rreaohery.
AbbhbH's

OF people near the door. which kent
increasing all staring at me in a manner
10 which, as an humble subject Of Ouaan
victoria, had been unaccustomed, vet
there was a bengnity Of expression in
every couutenance that made the micro.
scopic view Of which found u,vselCtbs
OBJECT 1.-THE reverse Of dlsagreeabIe. "Ab
see thAt' to become a grand man. all
we have to do is to be a traveller" Nv
iacetlous friend the Consui-as d,sco,.
ered-said ] might as well occasionally
raise my hat to the majesty of the neo-
Ple-an injunction I carefully followed
out. Up TO this point / was chiefly
source OF attraction to the "hoi poIIoi."
when. observed little knots of we'll
| dresse people, as we passed tbroueb
the Alameda, VI wing me with an ex
! preston OF respect and deep interest
extremely puzzliug. Ny more numerous
and more humble beholders, on one or
two occasions, appeared anxious 10
cheer me This, probably, the presence
OF some police authorities alone pre-.
! vented, but with the others there was a
| disposition 10 melancholy imprinted on
! their countenauces, and an evident
! desire to avoid everything like obtru.
! siveness towards one whose thoughts
they concluded at that moment TO be
stepped in painful reflection. said:
Consul, what does all this mean9 The
! Engdom or province Of Grenada seems
| to have very few tourists, Tor I have
! never met, i'm either Austria or Russia
! where travellers are minutelv scanned
! any curiosity or whatever YOU choose
! to designate IT., in the least to be COM
! pared with what has occurred during
! the last two hours" This elected a
smile from the Consul, who said he
would explain all TO me when we got
| round the next corner. ] was naturally
impatient for the eluCIdation. IL ap.
peared that my passport the previous
evening had been extensively read and
keenly inspected by the Spanish author.
iues and an immediate conclusion
arrived at that / was a brother of poor
Robert Boyd who in 1881 threw himself
into the political scale with General
Torrigos, in opposition to Ferdinand.
and whose party were betrayed, forty
uue n number and shot on Sunday
morning, Decent Der II, 1891.
To those who have entered life since
that bloody morning ~ 1891, some par
ticulars in connection with the murder
of Robert Boyd may be interesting. /
may prelude them by stating thatathe
victim Of Moreno's treachery was a
member Of an ancient family in the
| north Of Ireland He, it IS said, made
| large personal sacrifices las much as
| E5,ooo) In fitting out and equipment Of
/ the ill iated expedition which fixed its
| rendezvous tor a short time on neutral
ground at Gibraltar, General Moreno
vas the confidential agent Of King Fer.
dInand, and was looked upon as the
perpetrator of his most barbarous cruel
ties. It is beyond all doubt that he
deCoyed Torugos and Boyd, with their
| companions, to the Spanish shore, by
| forwarding to them letters at Gibraltar,
| stating that the district of country round
| Malaga was ready to rise. A letter of
! Morenos was known TO be In possession
Of a respected gentleman in London, in
which letter he went so tar as to point
out the spot for landing, and the precise
| ground which bis future victims should
| occupy on reaching the shore. The
party consisted Of forty nine persons,
| General Torrigos, Mr.. Boyd and several
| ex-ministers and members Of Cortes and
| officers OF rank. Moreno lost not a
moment after their capture in despatch
ing to Madrid, in the most private man.
ner Cn order to prevent the interference
Of the British Consult an express bribed
to extraordinary alacrity by the promise
Of great reward Moreno, who
| resolved on the destruction Of BOYD,
said nothing Of any foreigner being
| among the prisoners, though he had in
his hand the list with the name and des-
gnation of Mr.. BoSd. The dispatch had
not been a moment sent off from the
farmhouse where the party were sur
rendered and taken, when Moreno had
the individuals OF which il consisted
huddled together in the retectory of an
old convent, loaded with chains, and
tortured. No trial Of any description
took place. On the Saturday evening
after the capture, " hlch took place on
4
received a warrant from Ferdinand tor
the execution Of the whole of the midi
vlduals so inhumaniy kidnapped, and
next morning he had them all shot under
his own eye. Food was refused them
for the eighteen hours after the warrant
was received, which preceded the exc.
cutiOn They were brought out in a
faiuung condition. The frstparty, con-
sistng Of twenty-five persons, including
General Torrigos and Mr.. Boyd and the
most eminent persons, we're forty-hve
minutes under the hands Of the soldiers;
after the first yolley was fired. the sec.
ond party, consisting Of twenty four
persons, we're hity-nruC minutes under
their hands The bodies had been pre-
viously stripped by convicts and after
the execution with the exception Of Mr..
| Boyds (Which was claimed by the spir.
! tied British Consul, who placed with his
own hands the flag OF England over iD,
they were cast into the scavenger's cart,
and carried to the Campo Santo and
thrown into ditch, wi hin two hours of
this terrible butchery. Moreno gave
| splendid public breakfast to the hell
hounds by whom he had been assisted
For this savage exploit Ferdinand pro.
! NOTED Moreno to the rank of Lieutenant
r General and made him Captain General.
[ He continued a favorite at court until
r | the Queen became regent during Fer