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Show Simiilmli lErutiillty In C iilia. New York, 10. A cntleiiKin who arrived in linn city lio n Havana, ptvcft an acwiiiit of the execution of eren persons which took place on the Llo'.h ufT. on a plantation in Cuba called El Stnto Cri-to. Thin plantation planta-tion is owned ly Francisco OonziU-s Aranco, nnd ia situated in Vuelta do Ah:ijo, near tuibicon, jiirihiliclion of Bcjueul. It oteins that a female slave ri si-ted tho ad va nets of tho overseer of the plantation, who then told pneb stones al-otit the woman that her owner ordcrid her to le severely whipped. When the punishment punish-ment was alfciut to be inllieLed, it was found tlial the woman would oon be-; come- a motner. Her fellow slaves thought on account of this stie oiiht escape, but bhe was whipped in a terrible manner. During thu whipping her child was Uirn, and tiie hur-band anil six other slaves tiien plotted to kill their master iu revenge for the brutality practiced upon ihe woman, hut failing to find him at the appointed ap-pointed time, they killed the overseer, j Axaiih", tim owner, reported the kill ing ofnne ovent.i iu only the first step I toward causing an insurrection muui ! his slaves in favor ol the insurgents, I and that thoso engaged were cunspir-1 alors. After a trial by court martial, iu which ihrco were senleucc-d to be shot; rtuoli.er trial took place, and Feven were coiideuincd Lo death. The sentence was eoou executed on Arango's plantation. The mother of the husband of the woman was subjected sub-jected lo tiie bastinado, being compelled com-pelled to stai.d firat in the lino of slavts paraded to witucsa the shooting. |