The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-18
WILD WEYLER ROMANCE
YELLOW JOURNAL AFTER THE
ONCE CAPTAIN GENERAL

Alleged Letter Printed bv 81 a.
respondent Recently Expelled
From Cuba to Show That WeyIer
Had Mines I'm the Harbor of Ha-
Vana to Blow I'D American WAR
ships--OnIy u Copy in Evidence.
NEW YORK, Mar Oh 1.-THE New
YORK journal this afternoon prints a
statement written by Honore f. Laine
the newspaper correspondent recently
arrested and searched by Spanish Off
Gals in Cabanas prison, Havana. and
later expelled from the island This
is the opening of LANES statement:
"On Jan. "a, at 10 o'clock at night.
met In the Cafe Inglaterra, the head
quarters OF the reporters in Havana.
francisco Diaz, a reporter Of the rabid
Spanish paper. La Union Constitu-
tional, with whom I frequently ex-
changed news. On asking him if he
nad anything to give me- he took from
MS pocket a letter and handed it to
me, saying:
Weyler wrote this letter to Santos
Guzman, who sent it to Move Ohe
edltor of the Union Constitutional for
MN 10 read and write an article on
Inc acceptance by Weyler of the can
d4dacy of deputy to the cortes for Ha-
keep" 90"
Inc Following is the significant part
or the alleged letter referred to above:
have read that the Americans are pom
oerlng about sending one Of their warships
TO that CITY During my command in Cuba
they did not even dare to dream about If
Ihey knew the terrible punishment that
awaited them. '
L had Havana harbor well prepared for
such an emergency. 1 rapidly finished the
abandoned.
If the insult is made hope that there will
as it deserves.
On March 4, Lame was arrested by
Col. Peglieri chief of police Of Havana.
His friends We're informed of his being
imprisoned by cabman who knew
MN. According to Lame Chief Peg
lieri said to him:
Il know" he said, "all about a COPY
OF letter of Gen. Weyler, which you
have, and the trouble you intend to
cause with it, but L do not care very
much about that
what L want. to know now. and I
hope you will answer me, in considera-
tlon OF the good it may bring you, is
what information you gave to Consul
Lee, on the 21st of February. about
your suspicious of plot suggested by
that letter and the placing of dynamite
mines in the harbor, with which fact
you said you became acquainted during
the period of your incarceration in the
time Of Weyler''
This was really a surprise to me-"
LANES narrative continues Il had re-
ferred to the incident of the letter to
Gen. Lee, and had also spoken to him
about what 1 had seen during my i'm
prisonment in the Cabanas fortress.
which lasted for more than a year. dur
ing the most bloody period of the reign
Of Weyler.
Il had noticed for several nights
mysterious works which were being
done in the fortress. On inquiring from
soldier whom 1 knew, what it was.
he Informed me that they We're carry
ing from the magazine of the fortress
large quantities of dynamite. which
were being laid in the harbor.
My investigations during my period
OF Imprisonment were carried as far
as political prisoner could do in a
Spanish fortress, but it was sufficient
for ME to ascertain with certainty that
quantity of dynamite was placed in the
harbor in different places, was two tons
and that the wires of the mines were
connected with the Cabanas fortress
and the Capitania Puerto, or Marine
headquarters