Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-09-09
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about the same as It was twenty-five
years ago. when he arst began rcisv-
ms tender-hearsed and avnricions
souls here Of cash for darling daueh-
teY's departure, but be has landed IN
prison this time BY . new route. He
is a war victims poor, unfortunate
neutral. whose desire to swing Spain
to thp Allies has got him all tangled
up IN the welt polltick.
II has been some years since be last
took his pen in hand The arrest in
1919 of a gang Of swiFdssrs in Bilboa
dealt rather a severe blow to the
I"spanish Prisoners" business. Also
official warnings from the Department
Of State at Washington put Americans
more or less on their guard. But now
the European war seems to have given
him fresh courage and a chance to
weave a war theme into his old plea
that is too good to miss.
And 50, almost any morning you
may be prepared to hear from yours
Very Truly, Enrique de Fonesea,"
which is the new name of the Spanish
prisoner, now that he has disguised
himself in war paint The letter. done
in a fine, delicate hand, so neatly
printed that you might easily take it
for genuine handiwork, is from Mad
rid, and begins:
My Dear Sir: Being placed in
a very grave situation and / IAN
not by myself resolve a great
struggle that surround me | take
the liberty to write you the first
and perhaps the last time due TO
my grave health although / am
know to you when ! say you that
my death mother Mrs. Anna was
your near kins-woman you will
know our relationship.
Continuing, you gather that Enri-
que's death father was Contractor Of
the Spanish army and that when the
war came the Spanish government
selected Enrique to visit the center
Of the operations Of Army in French
OF course, "once in the center Of &C.
ton ! could see myself the actions
done BY belligerents and for this rea-
son ! write here to my Republican
friends telling them to work for break
our neutrality" The plot thickened
nicely, and Enrique was sent to Lon
don to purchase war material. He took
with him all his fortune, switch
amount to 5000 pounds" (nearIy
s4S8, 500.)
Spain was OF the very brink Of join
ing the Allies when the plot at home
was discovered and all E-nrsane,s fell
low-ccnspirators were jailed. To
make matters worse, Enrique's wife
died, so he had to hurry home, but he
was careful to deposit that fortune
"in a sure Bank of London" and to get
a check payable to bearer, and this he
bid in a secret partition | made my
self in one Of my trunks impossible to
be discovered for anybody
Once back in old Madrid, Enrique
carelessly wounded a policeman and
got shot himself. Also he was Jailed
and his luggage seized, secret parti-
ton and all.
Thus ended the great plot 10 swing
Spain to the Allies. The rest of the
story follows the old conventional
lines. Enrique is dying, the old priest
is his only friend, his darling 16-year-
old daughter must be sent to America.
and he is willing to reward 0 with
s2l,422-"the fourth part of all my
fortune"-f you will only send a
cablegram to the good priest and tell
him to ship the daughter along.
Il place my daughters future in
your hands," concludes Enrique.
The Spanish prisoner never asks for
money in his first letter. That comes
He must have it to get his lug
gage from the government and to put
his darling daughter on shipboard.
No. S-if you get that far--is
Usually from the good priest Of the
prison. Poor Enrique is dead, inclosed
'lease find newspaper clipping Of En-
obit. It is all very sad, and
rows sadder every time the 4Span-
sh Prisoner" has up and died like that
t intervals for the last quarter of a
But the old "Obits" will no longer do.
Hereafter they win have TO tell some
hing Of his exploits as a war e%onspir-
tor and how he almost succeeded in
winging Spain over the Allies.