The herald., 1898-06-05
WHAT CARRANzA WROTE
DOES NO DISCREDIT TO THE
YOUNG MAN
WANTED A SHIP TO COMMAND
Agrees With the Rest of the World in
Thinking Cervera Very Much
- of Fool


WASHINGTON, June 4.--Chief wilkie
. of the secret service gave out for pub Q
. lication this afternoon q translation .
. OF the letter taken from Capt. Ra- Q
. mon Carranza, naval attache to the Q
. late Spanish legation. The letter .
. proves conclusively that Carranza .
. has been engaged in establishing a
spy system in this country. and that .
Downing, the Washington mechanic, .
who, after his arrest, hanged him .
. self, was, as charged, traitor to his Q
. country and a spy in Spanish employ. .
. The secret service bureau has had .
. from two to ten agents in Polo's house
. ever since he established headquar- .
ters in Canada. They entered the ex- .
. minister's apartments in the guise of .
. book agents, plumbers, paper hang
. ers, steam filters, piano tuners, gro
. GERS boys and messengers. Two Sc .
. cured the Carranza letter. The cap .
. tain had just finished writing, sealing
and stamping it. when two persons,e
claiming to represent the Montreal
. Gas company, called on him to exam Q
. inc the burner in his room. .
. "Everybody's complaining about 0
. the light" explained one. .
. The captain had noticed that the .
. light was bad. One of the e"gas men,
. ignited a burner, examined the flame .
. attentively, and then said in tone in .
. indicating satisfied curiosity: This .
. is 1t. Captain, come here and l will
. show you" The captain left his desk
. and the letter lying on it, and also ex-
. amined the flame. .
. "Now, you see,' said the disguised
. detective, with much gravity, 'if you .
. want the gas low, you turn this spigot
this way, and if you want it high, you
. turn it this way, see?' .
. The captain looked slightly aston Q
. ished and said: So 1 should think. Q
. You turn that way for high, and that .
. way for low. 1 always do So" .
. That's right. that is what you want .
. to do. and you get good gas and the .
. supposed expert smiled blandly, called .
. to his companion, who had secured .
. the letter during the conversation, Q
. and both withdrew. The one with .
. the letter left at once for the United .
States. His companion wired the dee
. partment, as blind that he was go .
. ing to Windsor. The state depart .
. ment will at once demand the eXpul- .
. sion of Capt. Carranza from Canadian Q
. soil. The presumption is he will leave .
. the country in haste since his utility Q
. as chief of the American bureau of .
. Spanish spies is destroyed. The let .
. ter captured is in Spanish. Some of .
. the pages are double written, one set .
. of lines crossing the other at right .
. angles. Carranza is said to be neph- o
. ew of the man he addressed, Don Jose .
. Gomez Imay, minister of marine, .
. Madrid, Spain. .
The Carranza Letter
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The following
Is the Carranza letter, which has created
q sensation in Canada: Z,
MONTREAL, Que, May &c, 1898, Upper
street, 42-His Excellency, Senor Don Jose
Gomez Imay-My Dear Don Jose: 1t was
my belief that they would have appointed
you to command the Cadiz fleet, and it was
my intention to have sent you telegram
asking that you take me with you, to meet
you in the Antilles, or wherever you might
say The case has not turned out thus
however, and it seems as though God were
not on our side, because the decision OF
Senior Camara, I fear will be fatal, al
though he may have good chief of staff
No one could possibly suit him. because he
is very capricious, and, besides, is not a
hard worker; on the contrary, he is lazy
and would pay no attention to the advice
of any one. You will not take this for fiat
terry, but today no one but you and Dor
Pasquale should have command of oui
fleet, and this is the belief of the younger
a1a oar,t 0f tha Nnyv thara ic mr.
remedy, and may God shed his light upor
him and keep him in his hands. wrote tc
the minister, and, with the confidence due
to my special duties, l said to him, or
sending a clipping from a newspaper con
tanning telegram from Cadiz. speaking oil
our fleet and its admiral, that it was no,
Senor Camara, but you, who should com
mand it, and we lower personnel, whc
travel about a little, know you very well
1t may be that this action may have made
a bad impression on him, but don't care
because, if I can do so, I shall leave tho
service when this war is finished. l have
been left here to receive and send tele-
grams and look after the service which
have organized here, and, I had better say
am establishing here. because, until a lit
tie while ago, I was not permitted to do as
/ pleased. We have had bad luck, because
they have captured our two best spies, one
in Washington, who hanged himself-or
else they did-and the other day before yes
terday in Tampa. The Americans arc
showing the most extraordinary vigilance
j do not wish to remain here without talk
ing an active part in the war and desire
duty in which I can take the initiative
and do something I shall be extremely
gratified to have a ship in order to run the
blockade, or a torpedo boat-anythine
rather than playing second fiddle. How.
ever, if there is no other remedy would
be perfectly willing to be on board large
ship. I am very sorry that this war finds
me so low in rank, and it offers opportuni-
ties for-any one who wished to work an(
to risk himself. ] cannot believe that Dor
Pasquale could be in Santiago, as reported
by the American press. He entered it OF
the 18th, and If he had gone mmediately
to Havana he would have met only twt
monitors in front of it. I make out tina
he entered that place only to coal and TO
the moral effect it would produce in Spain
I suppose he went out Saturday. the 10th
II he had gone to the north and through
the Providence channel. he would hav,
passed into Havana right under the nos,
Of the Americans, who had only two small