Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-10-28

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ELY BROTAEKS, IS Warren Street, New Yoek.
nanila Military Prisons.
Martin j. Egan has written a very in
teresting letter to the Chicago Inter-
Ocean from Manila, dated September 1.
wherein he speaks Of the %iniqulty Of
Spanish injustice. The invading army
found tho dungeons at Manila filled with
hundreds of men and women who had
been thrust into prison without charge
or trial, and without the prospect ofever
gaining freedom, all on the mere COM
mand of some petty civil or military
official. AS quickly as the individual
cases of this infamous injustice can be
investigated the United States military
authorities have been opening the prison
gates and freeing the victims.
Capt. w. P. Moffct, Co. A, First North
Dakota regiment, is tho new American
governor of the local prisons and police
stations, and in his line of duty he has
been investigating the case of every in
dividual prisoner under his charge, Mr..
Egan writes. He has been assisted by
Sandico, A%guinaldo's personal represen-
tativc in Manila, and the latter, already
familiar with most Of the political cases.
has been invaluable in determining the
meritorious ones. When Moffct was
made governor of the prisons he found
that there were two large penitentiaries,
one known rs the Preside and the other
as Bilibid, and u number of small sta
tons. The Preside prison he found was
used largely for the confinement of Grim
mails and Bilibid largely for political Of
Tenders, and that they jointly contained
about $500 men, women and children.
Under Spanish rule they were in charge
of a governor, commandante, captain and
lieutenant. They were located east of
Tondo, at the head of Gale Pedro, but
the Office from which they were admins
tered wa located in the quarters of the
civil governor in the old city. Moffet's
first act was to demand a list or roll of
his prisoners, and it was four days before
the unwilling Spanish officers complied
with his request, and then the informa-
ton was not complete. The list did con-
tain the name, dates of incarceration,
charges, and the condemning courts or
processes, but not the sentences. The
list showed that a majority of tho pris-
oners had been tried by court martial OF
disposed of by the simple order of the
captain-general.
Later Moffet succeeded in finding
many commitment papers, and the prison
records, and these, as a rule, showed the
courts, accusations, and sentences. H.
J began first at Bilibid, and for a starter
took up the cases of the tw~enty-eight
women held there. Something of the
nature of his work on the first day ma,
be gained from the fact that he released
seventeen of the women.
Hundreds of cases Of scandalous injus
) tice were found when Moffet began ar
examination of the Catapuna and mill
tary cases. The first day that he worked
at the prisons Moffet released seventeen
women and tifty-one men. The secont
day he released 1O1 men; the third, 118
{ and the fourth $50. Hundreds Of case.
have been reserved for further ane
deeper investigation, and hundreds o
cases have not been taken up at all.
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