The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-17

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:. permitted TO have any outside communication.
n After this period was brought before Gen. L.
G T. Hughes, the Provost Marshal General The
General expressed his regret at the position was
/ | placed in and said that after examining my papers
b | he concluded was only doing certain work laid
down by another party, meaning Sylvester and
: allowed me 10 depart with a warning that was
e | 10 be careful and not 10 play in future with
I | dangerous weapons. When l returned 10 the
I | hotel found that most Of my effects had been
stolen. could not remain in Manila to try to
discover the thief. | arrived in Hong Kong the
latter part Of November Mr.. Sylvester. after
} expressing his sorrow for the msfortuncs had
had said he would make the American Govern
ment pay dearly for their mistake. was taken
SICK and for time suffered from an attack
Of dyscntery. During all this time Mr.. Sylvester
had been very friendly aud in close touch with
the FilipnOs in Hong Kong.
sNLvrsTER's NEW DEAL.
| About the first week in December, 1893 Syl-
vcstcr met Portuguese resident Of Hong Kong
| by the name Of Jose da Silva Souza, who also
] had dealings with the Philippines and had succeed
| cd in contracting privately with Aguinado TO
supply him (Agunaldo) with 10000 rifles and
100000 cartridges In the meantime Mr..
J.. Spitzel had returned from Europe via Japan
In Japan he learned he could purchase cheapy
II large quantity Of rifles and ammunition that
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! Chinese during the Japanese-C hinese war. Souza
| was informed Of this and consented TO join l.
| Sptzcl q Co, in the purchase and shipment Of
| these arms TO Agulnaldo On or about December
| 10, 1898 G. Apacibc, on behalf Of the PHILIPPINE
| government entered Into contract with l.. Spitzcl
| as party of the second part and said da Souza as
| party OF the third part, 10 furnish as near as /
could learn. $500 0OO Mex. for 90 900 rifles, TO-
| 600 600 cartridges and two quck-nrng guns After
| Of tel nd
| Sylvester went 10 Shanghai Souza was suspi-
clous OF Spit2el and Sylvester, and accompanied
them TO make sure that they could do as they
| claincd-that is have the arms shipped from
| Japan to China as those sold to the Chinese
| Government This Spitzel was able TO do
| through the aid Of ono Yuc Shut Wan, the sec
| Rotary Of the Viceroy at Nankin
"Thr arms did not arrive at Nankin until after
| January 10, 1890 The first half Of the $500 600
| was in the hands Of Apacible's agent who went
by the name of T. Carlos The agreement was |
| that Carlos should pay this $3.50 600 as soon as
the arms were aboG;d ship at Nankin. Sylvester |
telcgraphcd from Nankin TO Carlos in Shanghai |
that the arms ready to he shipped Dagupan.
and to bring the money agreed Carlos ar |
rived on January =. 1899. and was in some way |
made u believe that the arms all aboard the |
ship and he turned over to Spitzcl five drafts |
amounting TO $4,000 Spitze promptly re- |
mittcd the money To London on his own account, |
ana then demanded tho other Sl5O.0O0 which |
was in the possession of Crisanto Iichauco who
was in Hong Kong. During all the above PRO
ceodings was left The outside as presumably
they, Spiel and Sylvester they had no fur
thor use for me When they saw that they had
to return to Hong Kong to get possession Of the
other Sl50,000, they knew that would be in the
way. Sylvester, 10 get rid Of me, sent me an ur-
gent telegram 10 come TO Shanghai Immediately |
lictt here January 10, 1899, on the steamer Kwang
Lee, and must have crossed Sylvester on his way
here as he left Shanghai as soon as he heard Of
my departure
GRIMES FROZEN OFT.
For the time being the attempt TO despatch
the arms from Nankin was abandoned and they
were left in lighters Cargo boats) in the Yangtse
River, in the Of Yue Shut Wan Spizel
on his arrival in Hong ong, convinced Apacible
that the blame for the failure If the entire ex-
petition belonged to Lichauco and on the Gath
Of January. 1899. Apacible Sylvester and da
Souzn signed a paper to that effect / arrived |
in Shanghai on or about Jen II, and found out
that had been frozen out Of the deal made
formal application for my eleven months wages
and quarter of the business put through in
June last. The manager of Spitzel & Co. at
Shanghai, refused to listen to my claim and
said that Sylvester considered that had largely
overdrawn my account | was forced TO accent |
5000 Mexican. i'll full Of account as was p"nni-
less and then believed their statements that thew |
had lost heavily through the failure OF the ship
Hent Of the arms from Nankn While was in |
Shanghai, Yue Shut Wan came from Nankin
about Jan L. in great state Of excitement
and wished t" Spitzel Immediately Nj
Howard, of the firm Of Spitzel & Co, told him
that SpitAcl would be back soon and he waited
fully two weeks for Sptzcl's return from Hong
Kong Nue Shut Wan was forced To- return 10
Nonkin at the end Of this time, his leave Of
absence from the Niceroy was up returned
To Hong Kong about the middle Of February and
was Immediately asked by various creditors 10
satisfy accounts had made and which Sylvester
had promised 10 pay; consequently | am now
placed in ve-y awkward position | maintain
have right to claim my share of the profits
NJ agreed. accepted the $500 under false pre-
fences on their part They never would have
got in with the FiliTinos here except through
me. My intention is to begin n law suit against
S1iizel and Sylvester, and if cannot get
anything from them, | shall G. Apacble,
who was their principal aud mine
AGUINALros MONEY
Il will now relate far as know how Messrs
Jackson and Evans were connected with the
filipinoi. Mr.. Walter jackson, British sub |
iect acted for time the broker Of the Filipi
nos in Hong Kong. lie first received an order
from certain Filipinos. (Sandico and Atachio) TO
charter steamer for the purpose OF conveying
Aguinado and followers to Cavite after Dcwcy's
victory on May /. They agreed TO pay jackson
$1,000 FOR this service Admiral Dewey had
already given them permission go Thomas F.
Evans who had been i'll Bangkok returned about |
this time and joined his partner, but they failed in
their efforts 10 get steamer. Aguinaldo went
over later i'll the L. s. S. McCulloch Before
Agunado left he made arrangement with
Evans through Sandico and Agoncillo to act as
his agent and purchase and ship arms for his
benefit to Cavite Evans successful in his
first attempt and, with Admiral Dcwey's consent |
landed at Cavite about the last Of May 1893 with |
5000 MGuScr rifles and quantity of cartridges
Before the outbreak Of the war there had been an
attachment placed on all the money which the
Spanish Government had paid the Filipnos who
were previously insurgcnt against the Spanish
Government A&chio did this as he believed
that Agulnaldo did not intend to use the money
for the purposes for which it was placed in the
banks. AaChio withdrew the attachment AT the |