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Slain By Guerrillas

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
June
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Yokk, June 4.- The World Wednesday morning published tho following special correspondence froin Macagua, province of Matanzas, Cuba, dateil May 10: "Reports have reached here of a nuinbcr of recent unwarranted rnurdera and outrages by bands of Colonel Louis de Olivera' s Spanish guerrillas. Beliaziro Nodarze of this town relates the particular3 of a flendish attack upon a Cuban woman. The guerrillas of Colon while on their way to Calimate stopped at the house of Mateo Martínez, who had been forced to enlist in a body of insurgeuts under the coinmand of Juan Pablo Jabio. Tho officer in commaud inquired from Señora Martinez the whereafoouts of her husband. 'Indeed, I can't teil,' she replied. " '111 make you,' said fche Spaniard, and he pröceeded to tear off her clothiug. He then que.stioned her anew, and, receiving no answer from the woman, who was crying hysterically, he unsheathed his sword and feil to cutting and slashing his victim until her blood covered the floor and she fainted in a corner. Her shrieks and entreaties only serve-.l to provoke the brutal laughter of the soldiery. Inteiidel to Shoot the Iuformer. "Mr. Nodarze says he laid the facts in writing before Colonel Molina. The chief replied by eending a squad to arrest and shoot the complainnnt. His brother, Bruno, a tobacconist, heard of the order in time to inform Belizario. The brothers fled and joined the rebel forces of Coltido Garcia. Colonel Molina's forces a few days afterwards stopped at the home of a farmer. Only a woman and baby were in the house. He demanded that she teil where the men were. She protested that she did not know. He called a platoon of soldiers. As the platoon entered tho cabin, Molina pointed to her, and said: " 'Pull out that rebel hag and shoot her.' The mother and ehild were dragged some twenty-flve feet from the hut and a squad moved away a few paces. " 'WiU you speak now?' tho colonel demanded. " 'For God's sake, I don't know,' cried the woman. " 'Then flre,' ordered Molina. "The woman tried to shield her child with her body, but the merciless bullcts did thcir work. Crushed the Bahy's Skull. "The baby was not killed outright and one of the soldiers, moved by a sort of barbarous pity, crushed the little one's skull with the butt of his riñe. The bugle sounded 'fall in," Molina, after setting fire to the hut, coolly mounted his horse and gave the word 'march.' "Aresident.of the town of .Cascajal savg oneöf Molina' s guerrilla bands was 1 ing to Reglita, the sugar plantation of Señor Sardinas, for the purposo of eseorting a train of pack mulcs. As the gueriilas approached the town of Cascajal they paseed the farm of a Cuban named García, whose two brothers were in the insurgent force under Dimas, which was operating in the district between Recreo and Roque. A portion of this force occasionally camped near Garcia's house and he ■was then visited by his brothers. When the guerrilla band arrived, however, the insurgents were not in the neighborhood. Garcia was alone in his house. Gonged His Eyes Out. " 'Where are the insurgents encamped?' the lieutenant demanded of Gnrcia. "'I really don't know,' the man replied. " 'Tie him to that ehair,' the offleer commanded and the soldiers lashed Garcia securely. " 'Kow will you teil me where your brothers aref ' the lieutenant angrily inquired. " 'I can't say. I have not seen them,' Garcia replied. " 'Ha, I know they slept here last night, but since your eyes seem to be useless I will relieve you of them. Put them out,' the offleer cried, turning to his soldiers. "The sergeant thrust the point of his bayonet under each of the unfortuimte man's eyes and burst them out, despito the agonizing screams of tiie victim. As they left the house the lieutenant jokingly remarked that the next time Garcia would be able to say truthf ully that he had not seen the insurgents."

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