The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-04

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surgent camp unmolested. Then 1 acted
as sAoutf for about four months. l went
into all sorts of places and kept our army
Spanish forces.
MY career as a scout came to an end
through treachory. A boy who had been
our friend was bribed by the Spanish to
betray ali he knew. Part Of his informa-
ton was the fact that was a scout. They
promptly offered O reward for my capture.
lit happened that I was inside the
Spanish ines at tho time. The Spanish
soldiers were between me and my COM
panions.
Had / not accidentally seen Che placard
offering a reward for my capture / surely
would have been arrested. As it was /
was on my guard l tried to find a place
in the lines where I could get through,
but there was no break, and I knew I
could not maaeit.
ssWhen things reached this stage, I sud-
denly made up my mind that I would go
to Havana and boldly leave the country.
The possibility of my doing this never
entered tho heads of the Sraniards, for
notice of the discovery of my identity had
not then been sent in the direction of Ha-
vana. So 1 reached the city easily and
boarded a steamer for the United States
without even being suspected. I even con-
versed with the Spanish officers there and
told them something about the insurgents
that pleased them greatly.
stAt this time they seemed to think hat
the whole uprising was a sort of farce.
They laughed at the idea inc said that
the Instruction could be put down at any
time-just as soon as the Spanish officers
had made up their minds to stamp it out
in earnest.
Although I got ontsof Cuba all right,
l had no idea of giving up Cuba's cause
Of freedom. I turned to the work of fill
busterinr. This was not a difficult thing
to do, as men werc wanted for the work
and expeditions were on foot all the time.
ssOur sccend expedition had trouble in
getting away. Our contraband cargo was
known to be i town and was being COM
startIv watched by the authorities, SO that
we could not get it aboard. We had a.
good load Of provisions, but we needed
guns and pistols and powder and bullets.
FINALLY we had to resort TO strategy.
We cleared the vessel for a place in the
West Indies, sailed to sea a few days and
turned about at night and sneaked back
to within a few miles of the harbor and
sent d boat ashore.
Everything was found to be just as we
wished. The authorities, believing we had
gone for good, had left no Waterman
around the building where the ammuni-
ton was stored, and the night was as dark
as pitch. We hired a tug, md in less than
one hour we had our stuff aboard. The
rest was easy. The munitions of war were
put on board our vessel at sea and the tug
sneaked back to her moorings without
even waking up the policeman. We then
went to the port for which We had cleared,
dumped q few. sacks Of rice IN the dock,
authenticated our papers and cleared for
the place from which we had started.
1--WE landed our stuff all right. While
we were at work we pcoped through the
trees and saw the Spanish gunboat that
had chased us tho day before go stealning
slowly back, most likely wondering where
we were.
son this expedition it was necessary for
me to join the land party to convey the
goods to the insurgent camp. The trip
was one long series of skirmishes. There
wars fighting nearly every dag, one
day / missed my companions and was cap
turcd by the Spaniards-
aSome of the soldiers wanted to shoot
me at once, but others said 1t would be
necessary to go through the proper form
and try me first. This was to be done
in the morning.
THAT night I managed to get ono hand
and arm loose, grab q sword from the
guard as he passed me and lay him OUT
before be knew what struck him. I then
cut my feet loose and made my way TO q
companions.