\ She Visits the P'S fi. DEJITJ1 Cuhaq Patriots MESSENGER, J. Li .iii at the Risk Mr. Maloney's of Jler Life. Lugubrious Jiorrors of the Occupation. Cabanos Prisoq ANNOUNCED TWENTY Where Hebel DEATPS IN A DAY. Leaders /Ire Shot. The City's Dismissed Death Havana, March 18..I looked from my Jierald Explains JIoW window this morning before the sun had risen. Pb Performed Jiis Across the bay the grimly beautiful Duties. towers of Castle Morro were outlined against the sky, a mass of exquisite color, The city has until recently employed a gray, white and yellow, the crimson and man known as the death messenger. The of from the high¬ office Is vacant just now for reasons which gold flag Spain floating have been made widely public, but it will est turret. Almost beneath my window a have to be filled again. sentry slouched along, his rifle across his But for the Investigation into the affairs arm. i of Bellevue Hospital few people would ^' have known that there existed so Suddenly, with a splendor which dazzled pic¬ turesquely named an official in this prosaic my eyes, the sun burst into view, turning city. The lord keeper of the great seal has the water to gold and touching the castle not a more dignified title than the death walls with the glory of flame. messenger, and certainly he has a much less one. If will consider the Just across the water, came the terrifying you then, matter you will perceive that there could sound of six rifle shots. The sounds were not be a more awful occupation than that slightly muffled, as though coming through of death messenger. walls of stone, but seemed to gain clear¬ John 'Maloney, the ex-death messenger, is not exactly a picturesque person. His ness as they reverberated across the bay. ap¬ pearance was never altogether in harmony The sentry stopped for a moment, looked with his grim oflice. He Is short, stout and over his shoulder, crossed himself, and rosy-cheeked, and has a thick, red mus¬ then walked on again. tache. There is nothing funereal about him at rare I back from the little except Intervals when he stepped balcony dwells on the recent conduct of the Com¬ wltfh a chill at my heart. The glory of the missioners of Charities and of the hews- dawn was gone. I seemed to see six men papers. pallid in the morning light, led out from A small undertaker's oflice in East Twen¬ ty-sixth street, immediately opposite the their cells in Morro, with chains upon their gates of Bellevue Hospital, bears the name hands. I saw them placed in a line against of Richard Maloney. This ltichard is the brother of John. It was chiefly for drum¬ the old gray wall and shot to death just ming up trade for this brother that John Maloney was dismissed by the Commis¬ as the day broke. sioners of Charities. He frankly acknowl¬ I had been told of these sounds that edges that he did seek this trade, and fur¬ thermore, that the business is his own and come over the bay each morning, but this not his brother's. It was oil -January 15, 1883, that John was the first time that I myself had heard Maloney was first appointed to the office of them. What else could mean but death messenger, at a salary of $300 a year. they The institutions he served were the City death? Hospital (then called the Charity), the Met¬ ropolitan Hospital, the Insane Asylum I saw General Weyler I had asked strpp-f- In Ms ""dsnnco I was driven In a spoke to you. But listen; sit down quietly (male and female), the Workhouse, the him what the shots meant, and he to a and hold mantilla across iace. Almshouse, the Penitentiary, the Infants' na(j volante to a French perfumer's, then your your Hospital and Bellevue. angrily denied that prisoners were shot florist's, and then to a cnfe. They do not understand English. Promise It may be imagined that Maloney broke rear door In I made me that will not mention name and the news to the widow or the at Morro. He had denied that Through d this place you my friend of fjots were my way to a back street, where I took an¬ I will speak to you. It is not for my life deceased with some ingenious terms of heard. Now I had heard language. That, he says, is an entirely *Qem for the other carriage and was driven to the house that I care, but for my poor wife and my falsle idea. All he did in nine cases out of first time. I wished tha* were there of the woman who kindly allowed me to children." ten was to deliver the following form, filled use her name and lent me her lace man¬ I sat down on a little stool which the in by the Warden of Bellevue: that I might confron; hlm with. the lie tilla. I also carried important letters from sentry had placed about four feet away which he had toI£ me> Secretary Olney to General Sanguilly, who from the cell door. He stood watching, di¬ Morro Castle nas jja(j a fascination for Is In the Cabanos Prison. rectly behind me. I was trembling and my that me ever sinc^ j baTe been here. Its pic¬ I started for the wharf then, feeling hands shook so that I could scarcely hold Belleyue Hospital. I was having a good joke on the Captaln- the lace scarf I wore about my head. I turesque is like a glorious poem. ueauty Genoral. When I got back, two hours feared that I would betray myself. New York, 189 Its ig a delight to the eye. I have later, I was a tottering wreck, with an "Are you sure he does not understand?" Plccured the beautiful flag of America ugly mark on the shoulder of my frock, I asked. Dear which was made by the sentry's machete. I stool close to the but from its tower Instead of the ugly drew the ,up door, It i8 with great Re¬ floating PASSING THE SENTRIES. the motioned me I did not banner of prisoner away. that I have to you the Spain. I went over the in one of the little understand. Then I felt the machete on gret inform of At when the electric bay night, great light covered boats waiting at the dock, and, as my shoulder and heard the sentry tell me death of at this a ball of fire from its shines like top, boatman I noticed another to move back. I the pushed off, roughly Institution at making the stars seem pale beside it, boat shoot out from the shore below. I SHOT TO DEATH AT SUNRISE. have looked over at this rocky prison and watched it anxiously, for I half expected "It is the rule," said the prisoner. "You Please inform me of your inten- thought of the men behind those awful that the polite Spanish officer at the hotel are not allowed any nearer. You see us lions as to burial. walls, for whom another day would never might yet be on my track. here," he said. "To-morrow we do not Your8 respectfully, dawn. But the boat turned off to one of the know that we shall be alive. Every The sentry's cry has broken my reveries, steamers lying at anchor, and I breathed night they take men out of the cells Where the Cuban Patriots Are Shot at as it passed from one man to the other more freely. As we drew near the opposite here who never return. As you go Secretly Night. Warden. ' a wild around the bay and ended in Span¬ shore I saw a company of blue-coated down the hill on your way out observe a have broken the law to enter here, and you whose death they falsely report every week ICE KNOWN. as the last man that down the hill In un¬ QUEEREST ish whoop signifies soldiers coming their place in the wall where there is a sort of have likewise disobeyed an order of the or so. all is well: even style. My heart stood still for a mo¬ alcove. It is there that they shoot us. General's. Under martial law, which> Ha¬ The General laughed at my disguise. It Will Not Melt, Can Be Made Cheaply "Sentinel . A.ler.to!" Sen-ti-nel . ment, but, as we came near, I saw that take us out chained the wrists, "You look as much like a Cuban woman I They by vana is under to-day, you can be shot down and Easily, and Insures Skating Alert.o!" they had four chained prisoners with them. and then.in the the bodies are car¬ hate as I do!" he said. "But It Is not hard to night for that without a trial. They the as talk as I General for I landed in the face of them, but I can the Year Round. "I did it with little possible,'* When asked Weyler per¬ right ried out in a boat and dropped into the American reporters." fool them. A little American woman said Maloney, very sensibly to a Sunday to visit Morro and the Cabanos my head and drew the mantilla about a mission hung bay. He introduced me to two other men who come here into, their fortress. It is good The devotees of the invigorating sport of J[ournal reporter. "Of course, if the per¬ Prison he refused absolutely. He told me my face closely. "You know the law is that boat in not joke." son couldn't read I had to read it to him or any were with him in the hall. They could ice skating may now laugh at the antics as a no by. and I began to climb the I I to her. It was always open you see It, and that It was military law that for¬ They passed the harbor after dark is to be shot at. That English. passed the letters which carried of Jack an hill which to the It was speak Frost, for he will be literally out not enclosed in envelope. should enter a Spanish fortress. big leads prison. is because they fear that their making "These like are here under the General. He took.them to the back of "I don't mind telling that I was eigner with round cobble and men, myself, in the cold while they go gliding merrily anybody When I asked him what punishment I paved stones, my away with prisoners' bodies might be dis¬ the 'denunciamento.' That is, we are im¬ the cell and read them eagerly. I noticed in the undertaking business. Do you think made walking difficult. along chaffing him for his failure to nip I kept the place for the sake of the $300 a should receive if I were to visit the prison high-heeled slippers covered. But we hear the shots every prisoned upon an accusation only. There that he limped slightly as he walked, and Half there was a and their noses and cLill their toes. year? Why, It wouldn't have paid for my in defiance of his order he smiled some¬ way up resting place, morning at sunrise and again in the night. is no us, but you see we are the hand which took the papers from me is This business which is run in my I sat out of breath. A proof against Ioe that will not iselt and was never cigars. what grimly and told me that the sentries ther^ dirty Spanish Last night as I lay here I counted seven¬ treated as men. I was placed 'in¬ bent from a bullet wound. But he is hand¬ brother's name belongs to me. some of guilty frozen will render it possiDJo to defy the sure I their a to me on or soldier came along carrying packs know are not shoot¬ and had no some and distinguished as different "I'm gave them money's had right shoot sight, that, teen shots. You they communicado' for thirty days, looking, biting blasts of old BoCeas. But the most worth of work. I've gone round from 10 if I that I would be cigarettes. at targets at midnight." chance to defend or to see a lawyer. in appearance from those wretched Span¬ one till 1 o'clock the next escaped fate, impris¬ I felt llk^ turning back, but finally I ing myself remarkable thing about the new lc!e js that o'clock morning oned in Morro. "I can feel him watching us," said I. "Is Now I am obliged to a Spanish lawyer. iards as it is possible to Imagine. informing people of the deaths of their summoned courage enough to go on again. get "Are I it never was water. Out of the fertile relatives and friends. I've been the first To-day, however, I visited the Cabanos he near me?" Will you tell me what chance I will have? you well, General?" asked him. I climbed another hill and fchea I stood be¬ "I suffer from rheumatism in this brain of a New Yoik carpenter named man to carry the news to thousands of wo¬ which Is a part of Morro Castle, "He Is right at your back, within two I know they will shoot me; but do not tell damp men that were widows, but, of Prison, fore an in the rocky wall which is he said. Beck has come this latest novelty designed they course, with it an tun¬ opening feet of you," answered the prisoner, "but wife this. I will die if I only place/that all," I always did it tactful, you know. connected by underground me. my gladly to amusement for the of confronted do not look so smile. You need knew that Cuba will be free." "Can I take any message to America provide ;\rmy "All the Institutions whose deaths I had nel, through which men are led to their Two soldiers crossed frightened; while the of to announce used to send Information first swarthy Spanish not be alarmed. You look- like a Cuban wo¬ "The Journal is doing much for us I from you?" skaters, robbing pastime many where I death. their bayonets before he said. of its dangers and discomforts. to Bellevue. That's used to pet DISGUISED AS A CUBAN WOMAN. pie. man. But you look like a country girl. know. My wife tells me when she comes "Yes," "Tell them to come to my notices from. You know what a sick "Alto.tiuien vive?" one cried. our Americans are on It can be laid cheaply and and there are In those insti¬ I know that women newspaper repre¬ You are not accustomed to wear the man¬ here. Say a good word for us when you aid; suffering all easily, lot of people city "Viva Espangnol!" I answered, as I had sides. should be The can stand any climate, which it more tutions and you can guess that the deaths sentatives are supposed to be very tilla." write this In the paper. But take my ad¬ They protected. numerous. been directed to, and I showed the paper American are in dan¬ than can be said for the were brave, but I confess that I was I could not speak. I motioned him with vice, and leave Havana as soon as possible. correspondents great ordinary ice 0f "Often I know I've had to take out twen¬ which the Cuban woman had given me. here. You are to'come commerce. Mr. Beck is to a I couldn't tell the most woman on earth my eyes to be quiet. I looked over my Your life will not be safe there. ger courageous here, willing subject ty death notices in day. frightened "Avanza!" but take advice and back to New his the most you the largest number I've ever had with¬ while In that rock-bound Spanish shoulder. There, Indeed, stood the sentry, "There Is a newspaper correspondent my get "ice" to extraordinary tests. and I'm not I walked in, and a sudden turn brought York as soon as can." out referring to my books, fortress. My knees shook and cold his eyes fastened upon me. I smiled at named Scovil who brought a message to you It can be hammered with an axe; it can be going to do that. Many of those deaths me before a gate guarded by a soldier with The General waved his hand to me chills ran down my when I saw how but he looked at me with murder in Havana from Maceo. I do not know where as 1 placed on a stove; It can be placeq in a meant climbing up to the fifth or sixth spine a drawn machete. I spoke the name of the him, I covered the we I could warn him. He passed out of the prison yard. Tears were and it will still preserve its floor of a tenement house. completely cut off from the outside world to and he drew the his eyes. He did not understand what he is, but I wish refrigerator, of the as far north as the prisoner I desired see, and he in my eyes as I gave one look back at the smooth and surface. whole city is the interior of this place. When a iron bolt aside and let me pass. said and so was suspicious. has been denounced at the Palace, hard, slippery Harlem River. Outside that the notices heavy if he comes to the awful cell doors with the men clinging to The secret of Beck's ice is well mail. sentry struck me on the shoulder with the on the other side he shot it back The music of the Spanish fandango will be put in prison kept. were sent by Once them and the sentries pacing up and down The inventor refuses to make "Yes, I know the times of year when flat side of a drawn machete and told me in and I was behind iron bars in a sounded at the gate, getting louder and city." knoVn its forms of death are most place a before them. It is however certain frequent. in Spanish to move away from the grated The walk upon which I louder each moment. The prisoner pointed out a cell where composition. probably, eom. Suicides are commonest in June. Spanish prison. The soldiers unlocked the great gate for of silicates, which in a soli< state door, where I stood talking to one of the was with stones, and the "What Is that?" I asked. man sat weeping at the door. "He has pounded "I could give you pages of thrilling stood paved sky me, and I walked sadly down the hill to have the same smooth surface as He and stories. I've taken notices to some of the I almost fell to the stone sides were cell "Do not fear," he said, "and do not be¬ become insane here," he said. "Now look, with fracture. prisoners, pave¬ was overhead. Along both where my boatmen awaited me. When I break a crystalline ItK color best families ip the city that their rela¬ ment. paralyzed with half-clothed men to the tray yourself. It is a company of soldiers they are going to feed us. See how we and appearance are strangely like mtural had died In the alcoholic or the in¬ fright. doors with clinging got back to the hotel I was introduced to tives I access to the out at me. were coming to take out a prisoner. Sit perfect¬ fare." ice. sane ward of Bellevue, or the Penitentiary, gained prison by dressing bars and' looking They Antonio the of the In the ice it is run Into But I'm not to as a. still and smile as much as you can. Do A soldier came down the yard carrying Lopez, inspector Special laying *oulds or the Almshouse. going myself Cuban woman, and impersonat¬ unkempt, with beards grown over their ly Police. warm, an(I allowed to solidify aftssf the tell about those cases. ing the wife of a prisoner. I put on high- faces, and dishevelled hair. Their eyes not speak in English, as there might be two tin vessels filled with water. Under manner of cement. The ice now on u-iai is "Of course, I got trade for myself. Why a of The Spanish officer w'hose room is across heeled slippers and a black dress. I draped were sunken and awful looking. I hope some of them who would understand." each tin was piece bread. He passed three inches thick, and was laid at a cost shouldn't I? That was where I showed my¬ the hall, came In and bowed politely to; us. of a foot. The inventor the other fellows. This a lace mantilla over my head and shall never see such faces. The bolts were drawn back and about them into the cell before which I sat. $1 square claims self smarter than powdered that I again I wondered if they had discovered my that the thickness necessary for rink trouble has all been caused by the other my face as the women do or men were in each cell. Look¬ soldiers entered the prison yard. "That is our menu," said the prisoner. thickly, here. Five six twenty morning's trip and were going to arrest would be only one inch, which < id be undertakers round here. They think be¬ First I had to elude the officer back the bars I could see had Mauser rifles and their captain "Twice a day we are fed. We do. not grow manufactured a a cost of from to 40 have me out of the position Spanish ing through only They me. cause they got but who has been watching me at the hotel. blackness. The bolts on the doors were had a machete as well. They looked at me fat on it, you see." cents per squai^e foot. It is eas,y laid, they will get the business, they're mis¬ "The Senorital \looks quite pale," he said about half an hoiv This was no easy task, monstrous and Sentries as and it seemed as though "Have you a bed to sleep on?" I asked, and requires only before taken. for, though the clumsy looking. they passed, in the is hard enough to "I can see a man or n woman with a are not machetes their arms blood turned to ice. into the darkness behind him. Spanish. composition and go down I Spaniards good soldiers, they are with gleaming against my peering I answered. "I am through a process of planing robing, death notice coming the street. This officer took a In their belts walked and ANOTHER VICTIM LED AWAY. we upon the floor. Wife "Yes," discouraged. it: to a surface much here. When I see them com¬ good spies. room di¬ and pistols up "No, sleep My I wish to visit Morro and the Gen¬ which brings resem¬ shall still be rectly across the hall from mine the before the cell doors. They stopped before one cell door. The has asked permission to bring me a ham¬ Captain bling natural ic e. ing I shall just go out and get the job. day down not allow me who was tact. When a after I and there has A DANGEROUS INTERVIEW. took out an enormous key and but have denied her. This eral will to go there. Do A Journal reporter, ln^ted to "I've got anybody's got arrived, been no sentry mock, they mind if I test the ice, fastened on his to bury I can usually get the un¬ the in the the door. He out "and you think he would went there?" skatg and corpse -a of a hour of the day or night that the slightest I went over to cell which opened heavy brought prison is overcrowded, should an epi¬ Mr. Lopez showed all his teeth when he took a dozen t urns around. Then L» tried dertaking. Besides. I'm member sound in room or a knock at woman had told me her husband was con¬ with him an old, gray-hkired man, with demic of fever break out here, as it at a few fi
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