Show LURID TALES OF TORTURE BY OFFICIALS IN NICARAGUA Cruelties in Republic Consist Chief Chiefly ly of Hanging Victims Up by Their Thumbs WASHINGTON May 1 A letter written to the American consul at Managua Nicaragua by Narcisco Arellanes Arellanos a citizen of Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicaragua agua detailing incidents of cruelties in that republic has been forwarded here to Senor Castrillo representative of the Estrada forces in Washing Washington ton In his Ills letter Mr Ir Arellanes says I think it best you should know kno these people p ople are at at their old work again They are torturing men and even boys at and at Gran Grail Granada Granada ada whipping them suspending them from the thumbs with all this tp tc t wrench out confessions from froni them themas as to who carried provisions to Calixto guerrillas beyond Xan Nan dalmo I 1 will cite as aK an example the case of Octavio a young oung man own owning owning OWning ing a ranch a few miles mlles from froni Nan an dalmo who was given 00 lashes with sticks at midnight on the of April at jail at Granada He is now at the penitentiary ry in this town Managua and as it is a matter of common knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge you must have heard the story stor from another source They have also burned property and wrought damage to incalculable degree but this we pass lightly out of or mind It Is the rest I lay stress on I am ashamed that such cruelties should be committed by men who profess to be Christians and are such ferocity is more the work of fiends than of human beings hein s se We e wish the state department and the American public to be acquainted with these facts as It might help mat matters f I a bit It Is ts a real shame that SU 1 I work worle Is going on with your warships j ja a few miles off Corinto harbor when I just a word from Admiral KImbal J I would stop this devils duvIl work Should the admiral send another missionary to investigate he would disclose a sit situation nation of or things unparalleled even in the Congo Free state Under date of April 10 from lana Mana Managua gua a subsequent note to the American consul at Managua from front Arellanes states that the author has received pliable re p reliable reliable liable information of seventeen cases In which men have been hung up I Ithe b the thumbs He gives the names nf ot seventeen victims and the name of ot one ore oreman man who was shot and two who were lashed Another document detailing these al alleged alleged alleged cruelties and mentioning specific specific specific instances of insults to women i lv officers alleging In one case that a woman was shot because she resisted a government officer who tried to 11 kiss her has been submitted to the tue state department by Senor |