Show CAUGHT A REBEL MAJOR The Filipino Protested in Vain but Finally Took the Oath Agapito Vellasenor a Major of the Insurgent army was taken prisoner at Lucena Tayabas last Saturday and brought to Manila Monday says the Manila Freedom Ho was examined by the authorities and after tnkln the oath of allegiance was given his liberty liber-ty He denied having anything to do with the Insurgents although there was every indication lhat he had been very active Agapitos slory was perhaps the most Inconsistent that any Insurgent ever put up He olnimed that ho was an innocent in-nocent burgher of the town of Lucena who never knew the meaning of the word insureclo and during the entire trouble had tended his flocks and herds In the valleys of Lucena lie had seen a few insurgents but they did not engage en-gage his attention nor disturb his pastoral pas-toral habits They were according to his story a simple incident In his placid life He held up his hands in holy horror hor-ror when ho found that the Americans accused him of being a commandante in the rebel army Yes ho remembered something aboit the Americans taking the town and occupying oc-cupying it but lie had lo pound his memory very hard lo recall Ihe Inci dent so deeply v > as It overshadowed by his application to his daily work He seemed to lake special delight In the thoroughness with which he handled the situation His lies came to him as naturally as If they had been a portion of the manual of arms in which he was drilled lie did not know that the authorities at Lucena were sufficiently Informed about him to exclude any doubt as this o t-his Identity He had been the ruling spirit in that section nol only up lo tile time thai the Americans entered the town but afterward Not a move was made or contemplated by the garrison gar-rison of which he sas not well informed in-formed and his abllty to carry warnings warn-ings to his rebel friends was an annoyance an-noyance to the plans of the Americans True he hud slipped off his uniform when the Americans made their appearance ap-pearance and donned white clothes He had also played tile amigo act as cleverly clever-ly as any of his race His humility in the presence of iho blue uniforms was exceptional in Us way and ho tried to make the American officials believe that they were Indeed the deliverers of his town Then he got In his dIrt y work Ho posted couriers to rebel headquarters head-quarters whenever he saw a move con tcmplatccl at that point until finally his duplicity was discovered A little crossexamination mixed hIP m hI-P badly and soon his original story was twisted until it prescnted the Major Ma-jor in an altogether different light Finally he admitted that nt limes he had been forced into aiding the Insurgents Insur-gents but his heart has always been with the Americans It took some tim lo persuade him that he was really and truly an insurgent Major but he did succeed In lolling sufficient truth lo admit his official connection with the rebel army |