Show CUBANS BLEW UP THE BATTLESHIP Maine Mainc For One Dna On of o Span Spanish ish Vessels GESSLER STORY MYSTERY OF HAVANA HORROR MAY BE SOLVED cu YORK March or h 28 That the NEW 1 battleship battle Maine Mai tie through an error errol was waa destroyed Uy Ky l a t bomb of or his hist JM t raf lure was WaB the statement made madeT madey T y Gessler l u in the Tombs Tumi prison pilson t I V R u was sm MS convicted yester loster i iI t d I i f y of or sent ent explosives to the thc C inird line pier this city In Slay May 1903 II I made the following statement l lement to toil toI tot il tl t A For several severs years while whilo the Cuban 7 T I riot were wi e struggling against Vey Wey V y yI 1 J i I watched the contest t with Ith deep dei p in inI 1 I i st t and rad sympathy I decided to g gt gI t I i Jacksonville and do what L I could conk t tt to ti toil I il t tho revolutionists I started f ui St Rl Louis where here I 1 had been living the rIy Jy part of 1807 Made Two Deadly Machines taking takingS a train for the south i itt 3 ot tt t together t the material for the con cont i t i 1 u lid I ion of OC two ho exploding machines ot of oft o oU U t power po el so 10 arranged ed that i it t i J i could lie he wound up liD and left in a aK i K fr i J t 41 l place with the th certainty that i Ui i y would go off or with terrible d truc t with ith a few hours J our I M At t New Orleans I 1 rented a L room roomI n I z 1 I put lul the boxes together after ich I J went on to Jacksonville There 3 J became PI une acquainted with a c party of leaders who were ivere planning a ai filibustering i expedition They had en f ged the Destroyer a small smitH vessel ves to tot totI t tI them to Cuba along alone alo with a 1 of nf American and autI European n fir ra who ho were anxious art to lo strike a alo lo for Cot Cuban freedom Has List of Names several pral of or the leaders leuel of If the party arty u n f men Inen now nw well known and aud I 1 will j r nt it mention their names although I 1 Ii IP Iti i ic P e among my jul i a list of o them mi nil I suggest ed to t them that they use useY U Uv j iv Y v machines to In destroy d dest ho oy Si war wart t flIpS lips m in the harbor of or o Havana and ml in lit ports on th the coast m t of or the island rj J Tir l readily seized upon the Idea and v tc hm hn the Destroyer sailed flailed with the he tili they took my two to v c nil if h them Tt ft was my intention to tn I go gi alon aJon u th ith tI the party so as to lo dir diro t the th Irk w cr r sinking inking the Spanish ships hips b but it they d i sti me Joe urgIa that I r could be of or pi fater II us liSt fl in Jacksonville machines 1554 hines if iC the thc proved suc sue Ci c fuL fuLa a Machines Sent to Cuba i It J was ts planned to have some seine mem ln 1 of or the revolutionary party tiu t II Spanish Span h navy so HO as ao a to get t the ma na mac ia c e cHits lines Ii IP aboard abo rd If JC that failed fa lied it was I s lr to t fasten one m of et f the boxes to tot toI t I II hull huh of or a H ship under the water ater Wat l lit Ji IM 1 n I had Thy iny machines nes sA I s tbt ti ti ty could be exploded under r the th V tr That was late Jale in iii the fall fail of 7 The rhe Thet i 1 x t spring the Elaine Malsie aln was waN destroyed C one of the men in the secret secretor or 1 till the I hE machines ev e ever er r d to J i f I r saw satt him 1 some seine Ute time after the thet v t ir 1 t r with Spain pain had begun Fatal Mistake Was Made Madelie Maden lie n told mc rne he IC mid had h d nothing to In do dov doV v tit ith the boxes after rescuing reaching Cuba Cula r nt had been told toki a mistake had been rJ J p The rheo man mut who had bern been entrusted en tf 3 it t It Ii the task of o destroy destroying ing a lt 4 SC el I attempted to fasten fa tell a box hox dur lur durl J l x g the night to one of Alfonsos war and blundered into blowing up upU t U Maine h f fI I was as told that the nan man imme d ti i ely i after aftel learning of the error lie he 1 lul 1 made committed suicide t au said he had attempted to tn toJ J l w up the statue of he hei i i tnt 1 t hi Washington ton because he di did didI i it t wish to IP soe ppe the statue of or a it king J 1 meri a He lIe added that he was WaR not i II i anarchist t or a nihilist t and nud that be lie Ji 3 i made no effort to supply exploding ing ingI i hines nines to the Russians Hus |