Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-03-29
AGUINALDO CAPTURED
HE MAY ADVISE GENERAL SUR
RENDER OF FlLlPlNOS.
GEN. FUNSTON'S BOLD MOVE
Pushed go Miles into the Mountains
With Little Band Of Scouts and Sur.
prised Filipino Chief.

prised Filipino Chief.
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, the Filipino
commander and dictator, is an Ameri-
can prisoner in Manila. He was cap.
tured March % near Paranan, in the
province of Isabella in the northeast
corner of the island of Luzon. He
was brought to Manila Thursday on
the gunboat Vicksburg He was TAX
en- before Gen. Macarthur at the Mala-
canaan palace yesterday afternoon.
After lunching with the officers of Gen.
MacArthur's staff he was escorted to
the Anda street jail. He talked
freely but seemed ignorant of what
happened recently. Letters in which
Aguinaldo gave orders to his officers
revealed his hiding place several
weeks ago. Gen. Fred Funston, the
hero from Kansas, who has figured i'm
so many thrilling events in the Phil
ippines, on obtaining possession of the
letters determined to capture Aguinal-
do.
His plans completed and approved,
Gen. Funston came to Manila and or
ganized his expedition, selecting rs
Macabebes all of whom spoke Ia
galog fuently. Twenty wore insuT-
gent uniforms and the others the dress
of Filipino laborers. This Macabebe
company, armed with so Mausers. Is
Remingtons and 10 Krag-Jorgensens
was commanded by Capt Russell T.
Hazard. With him was his brother,
Lieut. Oliver ?. NJ. Hazard, both of tn
18th United States cavalry. Capt.
Harry w. Newton. Gath infantry. was
also taken along because of his ia
miliaritv with the Casiguran bay. and
Lieut.. Mitchell. 44th infantry. went as
Gen. Funston's aid. These were the
only Americans accompanying the
leader of the expedition.
With the Macabebes were four eX-
insurgent officers. one being a Span
lard and the other three TagalOgs.
whom Gen. Funston trusted implicitly.
The Journey.
On the night of March the party
embarked on the United States gun.
boat Vicksburg. 1t was originally
intended to take canoes from the is
land of Polillo and to drift to the
mainland, but a storm arose and three
of the canoes were lost This plan
was abandoned.
At a. m. March IA. the Nickslurg
put her lights out and ran in shorS
% miles south of Casiguran, province
of Principe The party landed and
marched to Casiguran.
The Americans had never garrisoned
this place and the inhabitants are
strong insurgent sympathizers. Hav-
ing arrived there the eX-insurgent Off
GERS. ostensibly commanding the party
announced that they were on the way
to join Aguinaldo between Pantaban-
gan and Baler that they had surprised
an American surveying party and that
they had killed number, capturing
five They exhibited Gen. Funston
and other Americans as their prison
ers. The insurgent presidente Of
Casiguran believed the story.
Two of the Lacuna letters previously
Concocted were forwarded to Aguinal-
do at Palanan, province of Isabella.
Gen. Funston and the others wera
kept imprisoned for three days, sur
reptitiously giving orders at night.
On the morning of March II, taking
a small quantity of cooked corn. the
party started on a 90-mile march TO
Palanan. The country is rough and
uninhabted. and provisions could not
be secured. The party ate small fish
but was almost starved. Wading
swift rivers. climbing preCipitOus
mountains and penetrating dense jun
giles, they marched seven days and
nights. and on March % had reached
a point eight miles from Palanan.
They were now so weak that it was
necessary to send to AguinaldO's camp
for food.
Aguinaldo dispatched supplies, and
directed that the American prisoners
be kindly treated, but not allowed
to enter the town. On the morninS
of March 23 the advance was resumed.
The column was met by the staff Off
Ger of Aguinaldo and a detachment
of Aguinaldo's bodyguard, which was
ordered to take charge of the Ameri-
cans.
While one of the eX-insurgent Off
GERS conversed with Aguinaldo's aid,
another Spaniard sent a courier to
warn Gen. Funston and the rest, who,
with II Macabebes, were about an
hour behind.
Having received the warning Gen.
Funston avoided Aguinaldo's detach-