The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-10
WAS ROBBED AT YEMASSEE.
SENIOR AUGUSTINE COssIO LOST
VALUABLE PAPERS THERE.

| Contained Valuable Information for
the Cuban Junta-Father of senior
itn EvaDgeIina CisnerOs Is in sa-
vnnnah-Has Been Travelling In
Florida in the Interest of the Gu
ban Insurgents Ever Since He
Made His Escape From she Island.
VIII Go North in a Few Days.
Senior Augustine Cossio, father of the
celebrated Evangelina Cossio y cisneros.
whose escape from a Spanish prison after
she had suffered many indignities has be-
come a familiar story, is In Savannah,
stopping with Senior Bartholomew santo
Rosa at Jefferson street and Oglethorp
avenue.
Senior Cossio arrived in Savannah only
a day or two ago after quite an exciting
experience at Yemassee, s. c., where he
went to take the train after attending to
| some business on the coast near there.
AS he does not speak English at all it
was difficult for him to make himself I'M
derstood. Through Mr.. Santa Rosa ne
gave a representative of the Morning
News an account of the incident which
is one that should be looked into by the
authorities of Beaufort county.
Arriving at Yemassee Senior Cossio man
aged to make the station agent understand
that he wanted to go to boarding house,
| but he was told that there was none there.
| Permission was given him to remain in the
station for the night to await the morning
| train. He lay down, using his small satchel
/ rfT1 M ar1x in 4 he
morning he was rudely awakened by a
! Juggling near his head, and when he got
up two negroes were running out Of the
door with his satchel.
There was some little clothing In the
| satchel," he said land a small amount
| of cash. but what priced above all some
important papers and documents relating
TO Cuban affairs with which / had been
entrusted. and which were to have been
placed in the hands of members of the
! Cuban Junta. The papers recently came to
me through several sources. and was in
| tending TO carry them North when they
were stolen. 1 spent the entire day look
ing for the men who had taken the satcheI,
/ but as L could not speak English, l could
do nothing, and made no progress. That
| night l took the train and came to Savan-
| nah"
Senior Cosslo got away from Cuba on
Jan. 20, and went 10 New York where he
| communicated with members of the junta
| From there he went to Florida, and has
| been working in different parts of that
/ state in the interests of the Cuban revolu-
] tonists ever since that time. He is man
| of medium hight about go years of age.
has a strong and impressive countenance,
quite similar in features to that of Gen.
| he una Y11a in oh n he n
surgent army. Senior Cossio speaks In the
! impassioned manner which is character
! istic of hts people, emphasizing his state
ments by expressive gestures He shows
| that he has had a weight of anxiety and
care upon him, and be has also experience
| ed harsh treatment at the hands of the
| Spaniards.
| one of the first to take up arms in the
| present conflict now waging on the island.
| This he did in Santa Clara province, and
| was captured between Cienfugos and Santa
| Clara. After remaining a short while in the
military prison at Cienfugos he was trans
| ferred to MORO Castle, where for thirty
six days he was kept shackled in a dunS
| geon and fed on. bread and water. He was
also a prisoner in Cabanas fortress. In
February, 1896, he was transported to the
4 Isle of Pines as an exile, and It was there
that many of the incidents occurred which
| brought his daughter so prominently be-
! fore the public.
II was while an exile on this island that
It's lieutenant governor Jose Berrer, with
designs upon his daughter had him put
into prison. It was at his house on this IS
land that the lieutenant governor was
made a prisoner. Senior Cossio told OF his
| effort to incite an instruction among the
exiles there and how he was betrayed
| through the treachery of several of those
interested In the plot After these events
Senorita Cossio was taken from the Isle OF
Pines 10 the notorious oarcel de recojido, a
| woman's reformatory, and 1t was from
there she escaped four days before she was
10 have been sent TO Spain,
II believe that in the course of time the
Cubans would drive the Spaniards from
the islands themselves Senior Cossio saiG,
but with the aid of the United States,
for which they are profoundly thankful,
1t will certainly be accomplished in very
short order. The one idea of the Cubans
has been the independence of the island,
and they have mad no other from the be-
| ginning. The aid of The United States
will hasten things to a conclusion and
thousands of lives will be saved.
II consider Blanco bad as Weyler in
almost every particular True, he does
not appear So but he is diplomatic ana
he covers up his oppressive policy with
diplomacy. The Cubans now have a pref
ty good army. and if they were sufficient,
ly armed, l know ID would be three or
four times large as It is now.
THE Cubans are animated with a great
sentiment of gratitude toward the United
States. Whatever progress they have made
has been largely due to the arms and
ammunition we have been able TO securc
through the good will Of the American
people"
Senior Cossio says it is merely by acct
dent that he is in Savannah, and that ae-
cident IS herein detailed He is now in
correspondence with friends and expects
TO leave within a few days for Washing
ton and New York. His daughter, who
is under the guardianship of Mrs. Logan.
Is now in a seminary in Washington.
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