Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-01-27
FALSE OR TRUE?
ALLEGED STORY OF BLOW
ING UP THE MAINE,

Brezmes, One of Weyler's Trust
ed Friends and Intimates, Saic
to Have Been The Perpetra
tor Of the Horrible Deed-A
Havana Newspaper Tells Cir
cumstanCes of the Crime
May be True or Not But Pub
lished for What it's Worth.
Ricardo Arnauto, editor Of Ell
| Rec0HccHhadO, a recently estab
lished paper Of ultra Cuban ten
denotes, in Havana, has at last
given the details OF the alleged
conspiracy to blow up the bat
tleship Maine in Havana harbol
last February. The New York
! T0mW0l gives the following
translation of the article:
at is known that the illus
trious General Lee, a great
friend of Cuba, asked his nation
to send a warship 70 Havana to
protect the lives and property OF
American citizens against a
possible attack Of those vandals
who had already given sign of
their bad intent tions when they
pretended to attack the Ameri-
can consulate, believing that Mr.
Lee had their hidden Mr.. Ar
nauto, the editor Of this paper,
the cause Of the fury of those
barbarlanS. AS soon as the
news spread among them that
an American cruiser was com
ing to impose respect to humans
ity, they became still more ex-
cited.
The Maine, the vessel desig-
mated by the American Govern
ment to come to Havana, was
delayed few days before CONS
ing to this port, although for
several days she was at Key
West ready to start at any mo
meut.
General Blanco understood
the gravity OF the case, and did
all IN his power to keep the yes
sci from coming.
THAT LETTER OF WEYLERs
"Tbese delays were sufficient
to give time to General Weyler
to write to Havana the famous
letter, with W hich, with great
perhdity, he demonstrated to his
partisans that the presence OF
the Maine III the bay of Havana
was a gr. at Insult to the patrlot>
ic sense Of the Spaniards, and
that it was necessary that there
should be Spanish hands sufl-
GENTLY strong to chastise such
an offence to Spanish honor,
"Weyler wired something
very significant. The butcher
said that if he were in the Ial~
ace Of the captain general at
Ha 1ana the Maine would not
ltn5 remain in the harbor.
"Honore Laire the noted cor
respondent Of the New York
T0uuaI, was the one who dis
covered the Weyler letter. BY
him it was also discovered that a
letter had been received by that
wretch and politician Mr.. San
tos Guznan. BY him it was all
so shown that Weyler had sent
to Sonora Eva Camel an urgent
order that the letter received by |
Santos Guzn1an should by de-
stroyed. All this was after the
crime.
1t is certain that Wey1er
sent also particular instructions
in regard to the condition Of the
bay of Havana Zacarias Brez-
mes was the chief of gang of |
irreconcilabies who met every |
night at the Cafe Tacon. Brez~
mes had been a sergeant IN the
Spanish army and in the last
Cuba war had served under
Weyler, thea colonel, as his |
private secretary.
"When Weyler returned to
Cuba Brezmes was one OF his
old acquaintanCes who were the
first to greet him. Brezmes had
a strong influence with Weyler,
and it was due to this that he
was able to make money IN the
days of the Butcher. 1t was Wey
ley who appointed Brezmes col
onel of the Firemen's Corps.
Brezmes was president of the
ultra spanish committee of the
district of San Juan de D1os,
and of this and other reasons
was very intimate with Santos
Guzmau. The riots of the month
of January, in which Brezmes
took a prominent part, gave
him the reputation among the
ultra Spaniards of being a man
of action. When Santos Guznan
received Weyler's letter he i'm
m ediately sent for Brezmes.
"Brezmes held an important
conference with Santos Guzman
in the house of Segundo Garcia