Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-09

Inc a Spy, He Travelled for Weeks
with a Price Upon His Head.
Kew York, June S.-Edward Emer-
soa. Jr., an attache of the War De-
nartment bureau of information, ar
ryed here to-day on board the steamer
uadiana, from st. Thomas, after hav-
ing performed some hazardous service
and undergoing some thrilling expert
ences in Porto Rico. Transforming
his name into Emerssohn, he pro-
enred a bogus German passport and
went 10 San Juan ostensibly as a cor
RESPONDENT Of the Berlin Deutcher
Zetung. AT San Juan" said Nh.
Emerson to-day. they would not per-
nit NE TO go through the fortifica-
lions nor would they allow me to make
Z visit to the newspaper correspond
eut Halstead, who is held in prison as
SPY. | was permitted to walk
through the streets, however.
The War Department, | may say,
need have no fears of it's difficulty in
taking San Juan whenever the at
tempt is made | could not see that
any great damage was done by the
bombardment in the city; the fortifi-
cations are in such shape that they
offer almost no resistance.
II succeeded in penetrating to the
exact center of the island, to a place
called Caguas, when my papers were
examined and the alcalGe was not
altogether satisfied with their regular
ity | said that | had been employed
as the overseer of a sugar plantation
belonging to a German, situated be-
yond that place, but | was promptly
thrown in Jail. The alcalde said he
would have to communicate with San
Juan to find out whether or not | was
all right
Glow long will that take?' l in
CURED
1t may take two or three weeks,
he replied. We will have an answer
by the middle of summer, anyhow
This was not a cheerful prospect,
especially as l feared that my identity
had been discovered at San Juan.
wrote a telegram to the German con-
sul and also offered to pay for a tele-
gram to the governor of San Juan.
This gave me a little better standing
with the alcalde, and l was allowed a
measure Of liberty.
fit was on May % when I walked
some distance from the prison at noon
and found number of horses standing
outside blacksmith shop. The
hostlers were taking their MONDAY
siesta and | appropriated the best
horse | could find and decamped To
get TO Ponce l must go to the west
but as that was dangerous I went in
an opposite direction, riding bareback
for two days and two nights.
1T was then that | met a shepherd
boy and offered him a jack knife if he
would draw me map of the surround
ing country. From that grew the pub
lshed statement that a foreigner had
compelled boy to draw a map, under
threat of Sitting his throat. That map
have now in my possession for the
War Department, and l found it cor
rect in every detail
When | rode again to the east, I
crossed range of hills to find the en-
tire eastern end of the island in the
possession of the insurgents These in
suTgents welcomed me and gave me an
escort TO the coast, where l found a
small schooner at anchor.
Though this schooner belonged to
a Spaniard the captain was prevailed
upon to take ne away. We had just
1887 sight of land, on May 49, when a
Warship hove in sight that we took for
an American. Our captain was greatly
excited and began to pray until dis
covered that the stranger flew the
spanish flag. 1t proved to be the tor
pado boat destroyer Terror.
She steamed up alongside and an
oTlcer was sent aboard. | was dressed
as sailor and had taken a position
al The masthead. After an examination
Oh the boat the Spaniards left her and
we headed for Santa Cruz. There l
boarded the Madana and found num-
Der OF newspaper correspondents and
artists aboard.
The Spanish alcalde had sent a tele-
gram to the Danish authorities he said
10 mold me upon arrival as horse
mel Major Moore, the United States
consul at st. Thomas, positively re-
FUSED to surrender me, and even took
Ma IN a boat himself out to the
Madiana."
"hen Emerson left San Juan he saw
-'af Spanish war vessels in the har-
ooI-the Isabella II, Alicante, Concho
and Terror.
WHILE DRINKING