The sun., 1902-03-10
-, :, the doors and windows and

u ,soo was personally acquainted wnh
Agtlinaido. and vas standing next 70 ,,n,a n,,n
when the firing began. IN tne l,'earisd Ha,iarad
Sigismondo had gone outside ana ordereo
the firing,
rs IT A JoKE?- ASKS AooY.
Vban this firing began Aguinaldo thought
his own men had ordered the fire 10 gfeet
,ha ralnforcements they were ehpeC,ihs'
so he stepped to the window and SAID
aStop that foolishness, ,ha
Then Hilario Placldo hurleu mn ~ Icon
Aoor and said you are prisoner Keep
still A., .or,oars cot
About that time we five AmerlcaaihS, Az ,so, sy'
int The room and Agunaldo got on MS ie1t,
and he was a very mellow indlViuual. IL
Was fearfully excited, as a man Mou.a ns
rot,,raliv he under those circumstances;
Hs asked MS 10 protect him and assured
bim that he would be protected, lie saiu
sThis is not trueH This is a joker
No. this is not a joke; this is tho real
thing Laughter
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE MAcAbEnho'
The turmoil was all over In very nt', itm
minutes, but the Macabebes were r;hie
excited; they had been undet te' o,,r
nervous strain, and especially Tor an @ houi
,ba situatlon was very trying ior tieuli
thew ran around like wild men and lnslsteu
upon hugging us and calling out IN sPahlsnS
What's the matter wSd,s WIN sh1 ali risbtP The
Mscssbebes MShes "A voice: That's right;
yon will understand that these men
had very little faith in the outcome OF the
expedition. We did not explain 70 i1 theiI
what we were going TO do until we saleo
from Manila. They feared that none
nt rs would ever come back, and II was
siu,nly by cajoling and threatening also
thai We kept them up to II -
They were men no better, nor any worse,
siunjy Filipinos and did not constitute
sanarate tribe but simply belonged TO a
certain village: they have never been IN
surrents simply because of the lack OF
opportunity
THEY WANTED TO KILL AGulNALpo'
As soon as Aguinaldo's escort had broken
and rtln we collected the Macabehes as
Son as we could and came down and put
the three prison,rs. Aguinaldo, villa and
Rarcpona into Agunaldo's bedroom.
Thew were very dcsirous that the Ameri-
oan officers be In there all the time, as they
had little faith in the Macabebes..
The Macabcbes had recognized Aguinaldo
and were anxious to kill him. They had
no particular spite against the other in
sureents Ii was in 1897 that 800 Maca-
bebes we're pcnned up in church and
burned TO death by an insurgent force
undcr Aguinaldo, and that is the reqson
thev felt 50 bitterly toward him personally.
However, we took every possible pre-
caution 10 protect the prisoners from harm,
and treated them with all consideration.
They appeared very much surprised that
they were not put In irons, and they asked
II they we're to he sent to Guam-evidently
tbev had heard of that cheerful resort
and also il they were to be executed. We
told them il was very unlikely, but that
il would depend very much on their own
conduct.
BACH TO THE SEA WITH THE PRISONERS.
The first night we spent in Palanan did
not give Us much uneasiness, because we
were sure that the insurgents who had
escaped would not be able TO get together
again. The second night we took great
many precautions as We were AFRAID, not
only that these men would get back TO the
town. but that they would gather other
insurrent soldiers and possibly collect a
number Of rifles, and We had no reserve
supply Of ammunition. So on the second
night that we remained in Palanan we
kept half Of the officers and half of the
men on watch until IL o'clock; then they
Law down and the others remained up. the
men having their rifles loaded. But there
was no attack made on us and no shot fired
at all
Finally the day came on which we were
TO meet the Nicksburg at Casiguran Bay.
IL was only six miles from this Rpint 20
Palanan, but We did not return to where
we left the coast before, which was elght
miles distant, but we struck it at another
point. We supposed it would take three
hours 20 make this march, but owing TO
the fact that neither Aguinaldo nor the
officers with him knew the trail we were
six hours getting down there We lost
our way, we got into corn fields and sweet
potato patches and all kinds Of places;
but we finally found our way down to the
sea II We had known the proper trail
we would have been there In three hours.
THE NAVY WAS on HAND. ALL RIoHr.
just as we reached the coast we saw a
black speck Of smoke away out at sea, and
we knew that the Navy was doing
things right, just as it usually does them.
She steamed in within two miles OF the
shore, II not being safe TO come closer, so
we arranged signal. We had brought
down with us bed sheet. and this was
rgged on bamboo pole. and we signalled:
''We have him; send boats for all.
We watched with our glasses the signal
on the Ncksburg, and finally we spelled
Il out
BULLY" SAYS THE NAVY.
Bully! We are coming" But a tre-
mendous surf was running, and we had
very serious doubts as to our ability TO
get on board the ship. All Of the ships
boats except steam launch were lowered,
and they came through that suf-and
honestly, Il seems TO me as II II was half
as high as this room; maybe il was higher,
j don't know One Of the boats turned
upsuc NONnt nut nlldlIy lllcN cdtNO through
tho surf and he men chcered and yelled.
CAPT. BARRY ON THE FIRST BOAT.
The commander was on the first boat
that came through.
We ran up and Of course there were very
cordial greetil Gs, IL seemed 10 me those
men never stopped bowling and yelling:
they just went through the surf and they
were drcncEed through and through from
head 10 foot, but that didn't make any diff
ference, when they got through with their
boats they just yelled and whooped IL up.
We got out with a great deal Of diflculty.
A couple OF trips had TO he made but fort
unately We got through without any acci-
dent az ALL and We were finally on board
the Vicksburg all drenched through from
head 10 foot. The officers lent us some
clothing and we sa' down to a very good
dinner, and two davs later we turned the
late lHmruted Emilio Aguinaldo over 10
Gen Macarthur.
AGulEALpo OWNS NOBODY PROMISED INpF-
pENDENCE.
] had n most important talk with Aeui-
naldo on tho way down-and by the way
he IL a very reserved, cautious man saws
/ very little, and you have to get everything
out OF him by questions. Barcelonia was
very laxative. and consequently we con.
cluded that what he said was NOT 81 a yery
great deal OF value. '
The most important thing that we got
ont of A AQuinaldp WAS In hia III -.