Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-29
The Insurgent Leader Was TakenN
Completely By Surprise, and
Was Given no Chance to Es-
cape.
General Macarthur Gives Fun
stOn Entire Credit and Recon-
mends That He Be Made a
Brigadier General.

who was captured by Gen. Funston
and brought to Manila on the United
States gunboat Vicksburg, was brought
ashore at $40 p. m. to-day, and taken
before Gen. Macarthur at the Mala-
canang palace. He talked freely, but
seemed ignorant concerning recent
events. He appeared to be III good
health, and he was even cheerful. He
lunched with the officers of Gen. Mac
Arthur's staff, and was then escorted
to the Anda street Jail. Aguinaldo's
capture was attended with consider
able difficulty, an insurgent major be-
ing killed at the time of the event.
Twenty rifles and a number of import
ant papers were captured.
Gen. Frederick Funston, who on
March 23d captured Gen. Emilio
Aguinaldo, when interviewed to-day by
the representative of the Associated
Press, made the following statement
concerning the capture of the Filipino
leader:
The confidential agent of Aguinaldo
arrived February % at Pantabangan,
in the province of Nueva Ecija, north
ern Luzon, with letters dated January
IL, II and Ia. These letters were from
Emilio Aguinaldo. and directed Bal
dermero Aguinaldo to take command
of the provinces of Central Luzon sup
planting Gen. ~Alejandrino. Emilio
Aguinaldo also ordered that four hun
dred men be sent him as soon as pos
siblc, saying that the bearer of the
letters would guide these men
To Where A%guinaldo Was.
Gen. Funston secured the CORE
spondence of Gen. ~Aguinaldo's agent,
and laid his plans accordingly. Some
months previously he had captured the
camp of the insurgent general, Lacuna,
incidentally obtaining Lucana's seal,
official papers and a quantity of signed
correspondence. From this material
two letters were constructed, ~ostensibly
from Lacuna to A~guinaldo. One of
these contained information as to the
progress of the war. The other as
serted that. pursuant to orders receiv-
ed from Baldermero A~guinaldo. La
cuna was sending his best company to
President Emilio Aguinaldo.
His plans completed and approved,
Gen. Funston came to Manila and or
ganized his expedition, selecting sew
enty-eight Macabebes, all of whom
spoke Tagalog fuently. Twenty wore
insurgent uniforms and the others
the dress of Filipino laborers. This
Macabebe company, armed with fifty
Mausers, eighteen Remingtons and ten
Krag-Jorgensens. was commanded by
Captain Russell T.. Hazard, of the
Eleventh United States Cavalry. With
him was his brother, Lieut.. Oliver P.
nj. Hazard, of the same regiment. Cap
tain Harry w. Newton, Thirty-fourth
Infantry, wal taken because of his ia
miliarity with C%asiguran bay, and
Lieut.. Burton ]. Mitchell, Fortietl In
fantry, went as Funston's aide. These
were the only Americans accompanying
the leader of the expedition.
With the Macabebes were
Four Ex-Insurgent Officers
one being a Spaniard and the other
three Tagalos whom Gen. Funston
trusted implicitly.
Gen. Funston and the American Of
ficers wore plain blue shirts and khaki
trousers. They carried each a half
blankets, but wore no insignia or rank
The Macabebes were carefully instruct
ed to obey the orders of the four ex-
insurgent officers.
The night of March Sth. the party
embarked on the United States gun
boat Vieksburg. 1t was originally III
tended to take cascoes from the island
of Polillo and to drift to the mainland;
but a storm arose and three of the
cascoes were lost. This plan was
abandoned. At 2 a. m, March IA, the
V~icksburg put her lights out and ran
in shore twenty-five miles south of cas-
iguran, province Of Principe. The
party landed and marched to Casigur-
an. The Americans had never garrl-
soned this place and the inhabitants
are strong i%nsurgent sympathizers.
Having arrived there the ex-insur-
gent officers, ostensibly commanding
the party, announced that they were on
the way to Join Aguinaldo between