Show COL BRADY SAYS CUBANS BLEW UP BATTLESHIP MAINE new That That War With United United Unit Unit- nit 1 I ed States Meant Cuban I II I Freedom KANSAS S CITY Nov 0 2 Lecturing at St. St G Ge church hero here last last night Col Jasper Ewing Brady one of the tho four of officers officers officers of- of sent by the government to Investigate investigate gate th the the destruction of the tho battleship Maine in Havana ana harbor February 14 1898 1808 declared the mine which destroyed the ship was placed b by the thc Cubans In Jn or order order order or- or der to bring war with Spain and the deliverance de do liverance of Cuba Tic He further asserted that the information had been sent to the president n TX h l- l lr r- r T 1 and nr s the t secretary of warn war i it 11 I noo LU u LUter LU LII Ut u.- u. tel ter with three other officers Colonel Brady said there were three theories concerning the thc origin of the disaster disaster- that the explosion was caused from the outside b by agents of Spain Span that it was as caused from the inside and that the theofane Maine was vas anchored over o a mine prepared by the Cubans We Ve were able to inform the president and secretary of war that the last theo theory was the most consistent with Ith th the facts This leads to the conclusion conclusion con con- th that f the Maine was blown up bYthe by bythe the Cubans in order to bring on war with Spain pain and the thc deliverance crance of Cuba Man Who Did It Continuing he said Now I t will wI toll you ou for th the first time lime th the name nam of the man Dan who blew up the Maine He i J or 01 was Pose a lip was electrician at Morro l castle It was as ashe he who throw threw the switch which set sel off the po powerful mine that destroyed that ship and sent lives H into eternity in a flash Z valdo was as afterwards shot by bythe bythe bythe the order of General Blanco Wo Yo even ven got a piece of the cable able that thaL led from the mine to the tho room in Morro castle Th That it t piece of cable Is no now in the thc nand navy nan d at o Joi n I rt 3 b the 1 1 P Y re t r- r Ti 11 t te- te ment thit t the ship was bl blown wn up by a n mine According to his stat statement concrete false bottom of the vessel essel S blown to pieces and particles fell on the deck deek of ships anchored narb nearby Colonel Brady resigned from tho the army armyn in n 1899 A Asked this morning why the thc ther r report port given to the president and the thc secretary of war had not noL been made mado public pub pub- lic lie he said Well Yen Im I'm sure suro I 1 dont don't know Colonel Brady is a brother of the tho Rev nCY C Cyrus rus Townsend Brady Brad the tho who Is s pas pastor tot of St. St Georges George's church where the lecture was delivered |