The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-03
CORRUPTION IN CUBA.
Bribery and Fraud Direct the Ad-
ministration Of Justice"
GEN. GOMEZ ON TIE ASSEMBLY.
In a Letter to His Wife the Cuban
Veteran Explains His Controversy
with the on Oficcrs--Expressesa Desire

In a Letter to His Wife the Cuban
Veteran Explains His Controversy
with the on fficcrs--Exprcssesa a Desire
to Go to His Santo Domingo Home.
Havana, April 3.-Today, as under the
Spanish regime, bribery and fraud direct
the Cuban courts. This is the firm con
viction Of the military administration.
Governor General Brooke is taking the
matter up and intends to clean ont tho
corruption, to revise the judicial pro-
cedurc, to change the court personnel
and to abolish the barbarous practice Of
incommuncado, by which a judge may
imprison for life person ignorant Of
the accusation against him and of the
names Of his accusers.
1t is true that the statutes allow only
three days detention incommunicadO,
but judge, under the practice that has
grown up, may make Il new commitment
at the expiration of the third day, an
other at the expiration Of the sixth anI
so on without limit.
More than this, the evidence in Grim
inal causes is taken by csrribanes. OF
clerks, who for a consideration write in
the testimony things never uttered, thus
often making the best friends of the
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