Show O11TAINH IX HAVANA D < Lowe Itt stolen from the fip nlili roloraco by n Cuba Fmploje Philadelphia Feb I3The Press will print tomorrow what it asserts to be the true version of the acquisition and publication of tho letter of Minister de Lome to Senor Cnnalejos The authority au-thority cited for Its authenticity Is Im Cuban of the highest standing in the collnell is or his party ho received his Information from headquarters In New York The story proceeds < o say Tho letter let-ter wn not toln from the United litotes malls but was secured by let agent of tho Cuban Junta In tho post office at Havana Don Jose Canalcja to whom the letter was addressed never saw the orlRlnnl He did not know until eight days after tho letter reached Havana that such a letter from bpilns representative In WashIngton Wash-Ington had been written him 1 Do Ixime wrote the letter In his prl veto reoldnco In Washington Instead nt at the Spanish legation The paper howeVer wn marked with the onlrlnl type and read In I the corner Intlon de Spana1 The umo Inscription wn upon the leftha upper corner or the envelope Senor < 10 Lome did not mall the letter let-ter front Ills house In fact ho had not quite completed It upon tho morning It wast written and carried It to Ibo legation tlon where It was first cn anti no tion tlc < < 1 by a person who Is I In the employ of the mbsy acting In a ollbolllrlni apacltj The letter Iny upon the desk of the minister In Ills Inner office the outer office being his place or reception recep-tion tit vialturs During nn absence of intf nn hour from the 1 Inner office of De Lome the cleric In < questloi sam tile on letter anti rend some of It Tile next day this same per6on i sent ward to hl < Cuban associate In Wash Initton to tilt effect thnt lie had eon i It letter from De Iomo to Cnnolejn In which President McKlnlev was vllllfled nod nutonomv called a scheme Several Sever-al I of tho Cuban patriots cot together anti nsked tho employs of the embassi I to secure tho letter They did not be Jevo Implicitly In hH story although he urged them to come Into tho public I Nlnt nnd make chaws against De lAme Iteoause they did not have the loiter In their possession the leaders I refused to any anything about It The Finplove of the legation was urged tome to-me nil mnn In his power to securs ho letter ollhollh It was isldered rnholo film wIlho letter wan alrenoly In t ho mnllo whn tho Cnbns at the Hotel Raleigh were Inromd of Us existence ex-istence The clerk In the employ of Mlnlstl de Lomo saw no moro of the letter Ills memorywritten nbsfMts Nerve forwarded to New Tork and It wa quickly ngre1 that could po Man if the letter he obtained find his state nientB prov1 to IK true the letter 11o7h iild 1 prvell ute hem fit to tho Cuban cause an substanllallng what Cuban leaders had malnlalned li rcgard Ing nutonom and tho ncrnl HInnlsh policy In olllclnl circles ton aril thli country and Its officers Immediately I viords of warning Limiting to leon le-on the I I alert wiro sent to everj Cuban who mirht be In a position to obtain track of or IntOlcept the Innchollht for missive Th letter rencheInaanll ne days after Its Postmark In Washiturton All agent of the Cuba Party ulut Is I nIl mlloye or the Spanish plftontee knew hat tho letter WM on the way and Nben it crime Into I 1114 brulds < It WPR cnrelne1 from tile potollle rind n COpy write mal of It Word to thli effeii wn sent to the Cuban lender In Jackonvllle 110 who at once nsked the secret Cuban junta In nnPna to secure tile original lettrthnt a copy was not what wn le1I ed Tile IInnnn potlI1ee clerk cdt wns not wlllln to flo thin nt first ni he war oblhed to account far it toIle to-Ile other employer of the department hut nlerword consented The orl1nnl itas thin taken several blank sheet were substituted In place of the tattler upon which de Lome had wri I ten and the letter finally postmarked In tin Havana office and sent on Its routine way eight dnvs from lU arrival nt the navnna office the enled envelops propcrls addressed to Senor Cnnalelns was delivered at the Hotel Inclaterre Senor Cnnalelas did not regard till Inn Iter erlollly nt the time although the hotel boy who brought him the letter let-ter and the postofUce emploje who last lied charRO of It were arrested So st Inn van the hotel mploye ino went eernl times dnll tn the pot office for the mails All three were die charged after nn exnmlnntlon Aenor Cnnnlejo commllnlrnteo1 aI mot Immelllntly with Mlnlter do Lome nnd for several weeks letter rend I between mlegrnm pea the 10 but tin trrice or the letter could ho found l Gnnnlejns shortly afterward lej Hnvann going to 2lodill It In I not exlllnlno why the letter wits kept IW the Cllban for sevrnl weeks liefom It was given out for lIuhllenlion An Informnnt other than the Twrpnn Nitta gave the f roreoln hilt In Able the Cuban official I elrel 10 iI thnt tile delay wn nt nrst 00 rnlon1 hv n desire on the part ovi the junta to ho nsureI nbohltoly that the writing wn thnt or The Boonlh mlnler so thllt he mlht not have any chance to In Its nuIIohlll rind thll PUe n reaction hleh undouht elIy would hove been tho result ot the propngnllon of a frike |