The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-06
CARRANzA IN 4 PICKLE.
HE DIBLIkES IU ri THBD TIU
LETTER HE WROTE.


The spnnish spy IL Compelled ts Admit mat
ne VErsts II, bat ne Asserts That 10 Was
psctsred FER the Aserioas Narhet asa
Contains statonsnts ne Die Hst WTits.
NOMINAL, June 5.-Ths news that the miss-
ing Spanish letter which was stolen fron Lieut..
CarrAnEa and led to the arrest OF Detective HeH
lert was In possession OF Chief Wtlkie Of the
washington Secret Service and had been Rivon
out for publication. haS naturally created . de-
cided sensation among those particularly In
terestod. Neither Lieut.. CarranEa nor sohor do
Bose would credit tho news until they saw the
dispatches. Lieut. ChrranSA was asked what
he had to say about the latest developmont@
After reading the despatch ovor carefully he
said that he recognised certain portions Of 10 as
being what he wrote 10 the letter that had been
stolen from his house. but they had been trann-
posed and altered in order to serve American
interests.
He has knowledge. he said, that . certain per-
son in Montreal who was able to write Spanish
had received An o6lor Of considerable uAoney ~
reproduce the letter which had been stolen. ana
to render It moro interesting for the Americas
Government, 40 In this way q great deal mere
money could be got out of the WashtngtoA az
liberties for It. The letter, Lieut.. CaRranHa
added, was not addressed 70 the Spanish Ninie
tor Of Marine, as was reported, but to OarTaNr
za's cousin, Admiral Don Jos6 GOmsS Imay.
The translation of the letter a. given In the De-
spatcheS was full of orrors, and contained Ian
guage which no had never used.
In the first place. he had never written unfSvUP
ably Of Camara. He had amply repeated. e. -
was his duty TO do, what . newspaper despatch
had said about him. Az . matter Of fact he haA
devoted . whole paragraph 70 say that he -
hovod CamaraA man Of the highest intelligence,
and that his selection was most judioiOuR. All
that was contained in the letter against hin
was simply the opinion expressed in On Amori.
can despatch.
As to q spy service all he had written IN bic
letter was: They believe in the United 6tateo
that I am organising . spy service. They DooA
to SEQ spieB everywhere" He he'd never writ
ten that they had captured two Of his best spiSa.
one ct Washington and the other 81 Tampa
That was o pure falSehoOd invented BY the
Americans, who wero looking fer Something -
blow about, The way the letter was trAnnl0tsa
was shown by one oxprssaion used. that about
playing second fiddle" In the nrst place. such
an expression was not known In Spanish, ana
in any event no would never have addressed
himself In such VULGAR language 10 an Admiral.
He had never written that he was sending msS.
sages to Gen. Blanco in respect 70 all the move
ments; neither had he said that he had commus
nioAted with Corvera. Both statements were
ridiculous and baseless, as was also tho one that
he would communicate with Corvora at POrtO
Rioo.
The letter 90 written by him was really Of no
Importance. 1t was simply = letter to bis cousin
in which no gave him the latest information
about the war. II 1t was of such Importance 40
the Americans were seeking to make out, did
they imagine that he would not have taken
greater precautions that it should not have
fallen into their hands1
Senior Du Bose said he could not believe that
the American Government. OF any Govern
ment, would employ a criminal to introduce
himself into q private house, steal a letter, and
then to pride itself on the exploit. The whole
thing, he thought, was got up in order to create
D sensation.
Major Bellinger. the United States Consul.
General, said he had every reason to believe
tn at tho letter. az given in tho dispatches, had
been written by Lieut. Carranza.
Sehor du Bose. whom soon tonight, ridlouled
the idea that the Canadian Government will In
terfere with tho presence of Lieut.. Carranza and
himself In Canada He says he has too much
faith In tho fairness of the Canadian and British
Governments to imagine for a moment that they
will interfere with visitors whom they have done
nothing to warrant 1t. Ho declined to say what
their future movements would DO or whether
they would prolong their stay.
1t is generally believed that the Canadian
Government will now be forced to take action
to prevent Montreal from any longer being used
as tho head centre for Spanish intrigue. The
feeling is that ut a time when strong efforts are
being made to arrange long-pending difficulties
between the United States and Canadian Gov.
ernments it will never do to allow Canada to DO
mado the fold of operations for enemies of the
United States.
The Spaniards. however, will not be allowed
to leave Montreal just yet. even II they wish TO.
Detective Kellert, who has been acquitted Of
tho charge of stealing the letter, proposes to
take action against them for false arrest, and II
they attempt to leave the city he will take .
cdpiaS out against them and have thom ar
rested. On the whole they seem to have got
into q pretty nice mess.
TO DETEOT FoRGERIES. "