Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-12
STORY OF THE TIGER"
RECALLED IN LONDON
Grandson of Notorious CarIist
Guerilla Assaulted by Grand
mothers Servants.
Special Correspondence of The Star,


! LONDON, August 80 1913
Memories Of the Carlist wars in Spain
are revived by the somewhat prosaic
proceedings in the Chertsey police court
this week, when Count Ramon Alfonso
Cabrera, a lieutenant in the Spanish
army, sought a summons for assault
against his grandmothers servants. Count
Ramon explained that he was trying to
deliver to his grandmother, the Dowager
Countess de Morella. letter from his
father, Count de Morella, but the old
lady wished to have nothing to do with
her son and grandson and ordered her
servants to throw the latter out. This
they did so energetically that the young
count applied for a warrant without sue
cess.
Although the Dowager Countess de Mo-
rella is herself Welsh, she is the widow
of the once famous and ferocious Carlist
general whose atrocities and whose
apostasy enraged against him in turn both
parties in Spanish history. and forced him
to live like wounded tiger the rest of
his life in England.
Ramon Cabrera was born in Tarragona
in 1906, and was sent to theological!
| seminary to become a priest. He proved
unruly in his conduct and careless in his
studies, and although he was ordained
deacon, the bishop refused to ordain him
priest. He told him he had mistaken his
vocation. and ought to be a soldier. Ca,
brera took the hint and was soon mixed
up in the Carlist conspiracies.
Nicknamed "The Tiger"
He very soon rose by sheer daring
fanaticism and ferocty to a front rank
among the Carlist chiefs. He was con-
stantly carrying out dashng raids, and
received many wounds in the battles IN
which he again and again defeated the
generals of Queen Isabella. The period
of savagery which Cabrera inaugurated
has never been paralleled in western Eu-
rope. The Isabellino generals at last
seized Cabreras mother as a hostage
whereupon he shot several mayors and
officers. Cen Nogueras thereupon re-
torted by shooting Cabrera's mother. me
Carlist generals reprisals were SO mer-
CHESS that he was nicknamed the iiger
of the Maeztrazgo. He shot i.llV prison.
ers Of war, including 100 officers, many
civilians and the wives of four Leading
partisans of Queen Isabella to avenge his
mothers death.
At last the Carlists in the north Of
Spain submitted. but Cabrera held out in
central Spain for nearly year longer.
1t was not until July, 1910. that Marshals
Espartero and O'Donnell, after a long and
bloody campaign. drove 1.-The tiger into
French territory. The government OF
Louis PHILIPPE confined him in fortress
and then allowed him to go to England.
Deserted Carlist Cause.
Ramon Cabrera began to get tired of
the hopeless Carlist cause, and he took
offense when in the last Carlist war,
which lasted from 1870 to 1876, new men
became the advisers of the new pre-
tender Don Carlos II. In March, 1910, he
astonished his old friends and foes alike
by issuing from England a manifesto ad-
vising the Carlists to follow his example
and submit to the monarchy of Alphonso
XII Gather of the present King of SPAIN.
At the same time Alphonso X1I-Who
was the son of Queen Isabella-formally
recognized the title of Count de Morella,
and the rank of captain general, which
had been conferred upon Cabrera by the
first pretender. The effect of this apos-
tasy was to bring down storm of ex-
ecration on Cabrera's head. Don Carlos
issued a proclamation denouncing him as
a traitor and depriving him of all his