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Show DEATH OF OTIS WAS DECREED. Plot Said to Have Been Approved by Aguinaldo. Washington, April 15. While examining exam-ining papers captured from Filipino insurance in-surance agents, Captain John M. Taylor Tay-lor of the Fourteenth infantry has discovered dis-covered a remarkable document, endorsed en-dorsed on the back with a direction to kill General Otis. That endorsement. Captain Taylor insists, is in the handwriting hand-writing of Aguinaldo, the insurgent chief. The translation of the document docu-ment was: "Our Honorable President: We, the signers, who subscribe the declaration appended by these presents, protest against the American proclamation. We recognize no authority but that of God and the authority of the government, govern-ment, and we offer our lives and property prop-erty for the independence of our country. "Manila San Miguel. Jan. 12, 1899. "Feliciano Cruz." (Twenty-five signatures sig-natures follow.) On the back is written in the handwriting hand-writing of Aguinaldo: "Lebereno Kotionko, Feliciano de Cruz, to kill General Otis. Commissioned." Commis-sioned." Captain Taylor's Letter. Captain Taylor called the attention of the chief of the bureau of insular affairs to this document in a letter in which he says: "The note on the back is in the handwriting of Aguinaldo, a handwrit-i handwrit-i ing wtf.h which I am familiar, and one of such peculiar mannerisms that it cannot be mistaken by one who ha3 seen much of it. I have a quantity of holographic letters and notes in my possession. The most cursory comparison compari-son between them and the handwriting of this note will show its identity. "On Jan. 4, 1899, a proclamation was issued by General Otis, in which he declared the sovereignty of the United States over the Philippines. Many protests pro-tests were drawn up in the Philippines against this. Most of them were drawn up by order of the insurgent government, govern-ment, but this letter was probably unsolicited un-solicited evidence of the adhesion of some Katipunan lodge, or one of the popular clubs in Manila organized by Sandico while in the pay of the United States government; clubs whose name covered their real purpose, the formation forma-tion of groups ready at a given signal I to attack the Americans within the f city. 1 Knew Their General. ' "Probably this paper was handed to Aguinaldo by a delegation of the signers. sign-ers. If this was the case, the man who signs first, Feliciano de Cruz, was one of the delegates. "Aguinaldo probably talked with him in private, and as a result of the conversation con-versation he wrote this note on the back of the paper. The other name does not appear in the signatures. He was probably some follower or intimate inti-mate friend of Cruz. "It is to be noted that General Otis' residence was in the ward of San Miguel. The signers of this paper were men who lived about it and Knew the ground well; some of them may have been servants in the house. The attack of the American outposts did not occur until Feb. 4. 1899." |
