Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-07-30
SOME INSIDE NEWS
FROM WASHINGTON.
MORE REVELATIONS
As TO NEELEY CASE.
And the Way the Prosecution Has bsen
Blucked-Havano Official Shows the
FAINT 40 Lie al where
vital Papers Were Held Back-Wns IL
Sh,ftIessnssv or Deliberate.

| vital Papers Were Held Back-Wns II
Sh,ftiessness or Deliberate!
From our special correspondent.
Washington. July % Evidently the
CutaIs need TO he educated as to
their duties towards the officers OF
the paramount power. They must
learn that that when the war depart
ment shirks responsibility by unload
ing it upon item, it is their duty to
stand for it and BEAR the burden as
well as they cav. such Il thing as
answering back with you re anotn .
err" they must understand will not
be permitted. This is apropos of the
reprchenrible conduct of the fiscal, or
prosecuting attorrey, of Havana, in
hurting back the accusation, Of tbs
war department that the delay ia
bringing Nicely to trial lay wholly ut
the door of the Cuban courts. This
unsophisticated officer, so far from
sitting silent under the imputation
cast upon MIN, retortS rourdly that
the real cause of the delay is with
the war department. AS a gonn many
people have long usrected-because
it is holding back certain papers,
known as inquisitorial letters, which
we're forwarded to it months ego and
which have rpposed aver since in a
pigeon hole 1t the department, al
though it was well understood that
the case could not te tried without
them. Whether this intelligence was
Intentional or resulted merely from
cgrelsssness, may be settled by each
reader as he sees fit.
Stirred up by the unexpected bold
ness of the fiscal. the war department
has pulled out the papers ard studied
them again, ard will now take steps
prolonged, leisurely steps-to obtain
tie Information asked tUem and send
it to Cuba. These papers call for
certain dispositions as to Neeley's
guilt. These, while OF course they
cam t be used, either 10 Cuba or in
the United States as testimony against
b i'm, are nevertheless, essential un-
der the Cuban code for laying an ac-
cusation formally against MIN. This
the department Will now
proceed to procure, trough it takes
pains to irform the public that those
whose evidence is deemed requisite
are under 10 compulsion to state such
facts as are within their personal
knowledge bearing upon the case.
Trey are told that if they express will
Iingness to testify, their statements
will be sent to Havana but if they de- !
.lire, the Cuban court will he notified !
Of the daclination, and there the mat
Ter will have To rest.
After this effort TO obtain evidence |
las been completed, another ard still
uore important question will arise.
The presence of the witnesses will |
hen be required in ilavana, for under
10 circumstances 2an the written tcs
imony be utilized. Some difficulty
5 likely to he experienced in secur-
rg the attendance Of these WITNESSES.
they are notified by the department
hat they cArnot he compelled 10 obey
he summocs Of the Havana court, for
1uha is a foreign country, ard the
'Ourts there Canlot, of course, control
he movements # m American citi-
zen, This, however, is a prob EN-
With which fe officials will not dc
until thcy reach it They say they
rope that when the case cones to trial
tan be secured upon the
of the witnesses who are
'oy in Havana