New-York tribune., 1916-07-17
Wife Rejects Permission
TO Enter-Remains at
Ellis Island.
EAGLE OF ANDES
EAGER TO APPEAL
Longs 10 Revisit Broadway, and
Will Fight to Stay in
This Country.

r,y the second time IN his eventful
..~eer General Cipriano Castro. former
....,,or Of Venezuela and for many
,s,,s the storm centre of South Ameri-
-. ,olitics. was ordered excluded from
.,, United States yesterday. The or
s.- was issued on the grounds Of
.-,orsl turpitude" by a special board
.s,rouirv. headed by Frederic c. Howe,
,.,,icrstion Commissioner, after
s.v.,,irute session on Ellis Island yes
,erdsy afternoon.
Although Mrs. Castro was granted
..,rission 10 land here. she refused 70
Lave her husband. and was ordered ex-
.,,S,d on the technical charge that she
-, alisble 10 become public charge
Castro SAYS lie Will Appeal.
Confident that the immigration
Charities were still bound by the de-
s;,;o, Of Judge Henry c. Ward, of the
,.,i,,s States District Court, in 1913
v,,navrit Of hsbeas corpus was sus'
,,ired and Castro was permitted to
lard the little general, variously styled
eth. Monkey Of the Andes" THE Lit
80 Hornet" and The Black Eagle OF
-. Andes" was amazed at the board S
decision. He declared he would appeal
Immediately 10 the Secretary Of Labor
g, Washington.
III is so strange," he exclaimed. 80
curious, do not understand this pro-
.,6u-e feel that the precedent set
mon nv last visit here Will apply IN
ttis instance also, and that soon shall
be released
General Longs for Broadway.
A. 6apper and gay as when he was
tsro Of the Caribbean. instead Of
a, exile from his country, General
Csstro was taken to Ellis Island from
,be Vsuban. the liner that brought
b,7, into New York Harbor Saturday
from Port -of-Spain, Trinidad. Ine
Little Hornet" was Nm good humor and
c6stted with the inspectors. once,
when he caught sight OF the WOOL,
worth Tower. he chuckled and nudged
an immigration inspector.
"Ahl" he said. Soon shall see
once more the beautiful Broadway
and the wonderful Fifth Avenues.
He was equally happy during the
ouizzing to which he was SUBJECTED
by Commissioner Howe and the other
members Of the special board, be-
cause he thought the hearing only
necessary formality. He told them ne
had left Trinidad because his phhysi-
clan mad ordered him to do so, Tear
ing the probability of malarial lnfec-
ton.
Il am going to Porto Rico" said
General Castro There | have inter-
osts and friends. and there. members
Of nv family reside. / should not
have come TO New York had il been
possible TO take steamer direct
from Trinidad
Castro's black eyes lost some Of
their sparkle and his figure was less
cree: when he was informed that ne
was still regarded as an undesirable
alien.
After the hearing General Castro
and his wife were taken to the per-
sonal quarters OF Commissioner Howe,
which will be at their disposal dur
ing their stay on Ellis Island. Byron
II. Uhl. Assistant Commissioner of
lmmi grafton. said the Castros will be
permitted 10 20 anywhere on the
island they wish. and their meals will
be furnished 70 them by caterer.
Eagle Of Andes" Is Nervous.
For several moments after he came
from the meeting room Castro stood IN
the hallway nervously swinging ms
light cane. while his wife held his hand
and talked soothingly. He kept re-
pesting that the procedure was so
strange. so curious" until he presently
saw that newspaper men were taking
down what he said
Wait" he exclaimed. Il shall make
q statement Write now as | dictate,
after which | shall sign my name"
The statement, which both the gen
cral and Mrs. Castro read carefully
and corrected, is as follows;
"I believed that my case was dem
nitely adjudged in the year 1918, when
] was here, and that it had been de-
eided favorably to me by the court TO
which IL was submitted-so much so
that I travelled through several cities
In the United States at that time, even
10 Washington. where ] was on the day
that Mr.. Wilson was inaugurated Presi-
dent ,,,,
"With this guarantee, in which / had