Show BARBARITIES 1 BY SPANIARDS A Young American Presents a Graphic Picture HALF HAS NOT BEEN TOLD TIE WHOLE TRUTH NEVER WILL BE KXOWX Suspects in Moro Castle Are Tortured Tor-tured and Shot Without Trial Almost Al-most Daily Inhuman Torture Forces From the Victims Confessions Confes-sions of Crimes With Which They Had Nothing to DoAnd Yet AVe Sit Idly By KEY WEST Fla June 6A letter has been received here from Owen Melton the young American captured on the schooner Competitor in which he described the barbarities practiced by Spaniards on prisoners confined in Moro castle and Fort Cabanas Extracts Ex-tracts from the letter which is dated Havana June 3 follow The world will never know the barbarities bar-barities that are perpetrated by the Spaniards on the suspects confined in Moro castle and Fort Cabanas They are being tortured and shot without trial almost daily On May 30 Faus trino Pardone 16 years of age was captured in the outskirts of Havana by Spanish guerillos and lodged in Cabanas Ca-banas I was suspected that the bay had bene in communication with insurgents to make Pardone confess he was stripped and suspended by the arms while a Spanish lieutenant whipped whipp-ed the boy on the bare flesh with a heavy whip Pardones back shoulders and breast were soon in a pulp and he was shrieking in agony Then the officer asked Pardone if he had done certain things and in his terrible pain the boy would scream yes yes This was then written as the boys deposition deposi-tion to be read before the court when he shall be tried for rebellion J is not likely that the boy will ever be tried a death will prevent Such things are of daily occurrence in the Cabanas prison and at night volleys of musketry are frequently heard The next day the prisoners know what these volleys mean when they miss the faces of well known prisoners and from ten to fifteen are crowded in a cell There are several Americans in Cabanas among them being the Americans Amer-icans captured with the schooner Competitor Com-petitor Part of these are in one cell and part in another Julio Sanguilly is also imprisoned there He is given a separate cell Numbers of Cubans have been found at their homes suffering suffer-ing from wounds and have been dragged away and thrown into the dungeons of Fort Cabanas The people peo-ple in Moro are mostly pacific that is people who were captured at their homes on suspicion of sympathizing sympathiz-ing with insurgents These prisoners are kept in six large vaulted cells There are from 75 to 115 in a cell The cells are filthy and damp and the prisoners are given nothing to sleep upon so that unless they are fortunate fortu-nate enough to have money or friends they are compelled to sleep on the damp filthy stone floor There are some men of note in Moro among them being Ascua who was Maceos guide In western Cuba also Rafael Castro known a El Inglesito or The Little Englishman whom the Spaniards would have shot had i not been for I consuls interfering |