The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-29

/ most trivial misdemeanor but he was OBJ
/ durate. Coaxing and even pleading was
/ tried. and a telegram was finally exhibit
ed to him in triumph from the governor
of the Department 10 the Alcade. direct
/ ing him TO proceed with the prisoner
according TO the law"
That is just what l want" said Angus,
| proceed with me according to law" and
while the Alcade and the scchoolmaster
/ puzzled their heads TO determine what the
! law was he was thrust back in jail again.
/ but this time the bars were not closed be-
/ hind him. The door was left open. No
! jailors were left to guard the prison.
/ either, and after while. satisfied that
both the Alcade and the schoolmaster had
/ closed up and gone home. Angus found
sufficient courage to step out into the
corridor. No one interfering with him.
he went a little farther. His courage was
sufficient finally to take him to his lodg-
ings, where, paying his hostess for her
fare, he saddled up his horse and got
out of the town as quickly as his horse
could carry him.
Closely on his heels came another
stranger. He asked for lodgings at the
You had a foreigner stop here day or
two ago." said the stranger.
He left yesterday" said the hostess
He had a pretty good time, didn't he,
said the man, "he got full on the morning
Of his arrival-he painted the town. didn't
he?"
"Oh. no." said the woman. Poor fell
low: il happened TO be the Alcade's birth
day, the day he arrived and the next
morning he refused TO pay his fine.
never saw such hardheaded man. The
Alcade finally offered TO let him go free
If he would only plead guilty, but he
would not even agree to that
And do you mean to tell me that he
did not drink anything to celebrate the
Alcade's birthday"
"Oh. no, Senior; the Alcade celebrated
his own birthday; the Englishman stayed
in jail"
The stranger was representative OF
her Britannia Majesty's Government, an
English Vice-Consul from Quezaltenango,
TO whom Minister Goslin had telegraphed
to investigate the case of Mr.. Charles
Angus at Sacapulas. without delay.
Not very long after this Mr.. Goslin
again called on the Minister of Foreign
Relations at Guatemala City. He carried
a packet of papers neatly folded for the
mail.
Mr.. Minister" said he, II thought /
would call and see you and make you ac-
quainted with the steps I am taking. You
perhaps remember the occurrence not long
ago of the arrest and imprisonment Of a
British subject at Sacapulas. After a
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we find that that gentleman was most
arbitrarily treated. abused. and deprived
OF his liberty for twenty-eight hours. by
the inebriated Alcade Of that place. OF
course. you understand that it is with the
sincerest motive Of friendship that 7 in
form you OF the fact and that my duty
requires me 10 send the evidence In the
case TO my home Government for instruc-
TONS"
1t remains 10 be said that those papers
never got any further than the Minister'S
hands. unless to be filed away in the Gov
ernment's archives. Guatemala,s Minister
OF Foreign Relations threw up both hands
as he declared he saw no necessity %
sending them to the home Government.
Neither did Mr.. Goslin. provided the
wounded feelings and injured dignity Of
his fellow British subject could be healed
by some sort OF indemnity. He wanted
the Government Minister 10 understand
that he himself was too great friend.
personally. 10 make any demand. and for
that reason he desired 10 send the papers
in the case TO the home Government
The Government expressed their willing
ness 10 pay the indemnity. Then. said
the British Minister. there Is the ineb-
rated Alcade. tie should be punished 50
that no future British subjects be no
Tested ey Alcades while celebrating their
birthdays. New York Evening Post.