Show barbarities OF SPANIARDS SPANIARD an american shot and hacked and left for dead li mealer the bloody baberon Baber But cherin ln position belason 1 clans elx death anil and thereby l k brae death antory alleged to be true which like alle a manee mance of 1 the lie olden days cincinnati april 21 ahe commer caal gaetos Ga etts special pedal correspondence front from mrs woodward dated havana april 15 35 contains an n interview with dr jose manuel delagoa the american who was shot and hacked and left for ead b spanish troops on march 4 when they raided the plantation of dolores 0 lit in malboa delagoa said lle he was an american neutral in this content attending to his form farm when captured he presented his lit s passport as an american citizen general ulzo answered by striking him three times with his sword delagoa and his seven ploughmen ploughman plough men aare tied together with a rope and placed in line A detail of spanish troops fl A ed at them by command maceo macco thit that day iad hw tired Do doloras lorts plantation anti and retired before the spanish troops A spanish captain came to Dela gOal 8 house u with ith twenty men told the d actor actor and his seven beven field hands to follow delagoa showed his passport as an A american nic rican so did his men I 1 llie he captain said he had nothing to do with the matter he was obe obeying ing orders but it was his opinion that tit the worst thing they could do m would be to show that they N were ere americana t arriving Arrivi til at general headquarters dela goa oa sald they were neutrals and then showed their passports pits sports ulzo became furious it was then he struck delagoa with ills it machete exclaiming I 1 I v will ill shoot I 1 oil list as I 1 would the consul general if lie he were here 11 there were eight of then them taken out and tied together A with ich a rope and placed against a stone wall wal I 1 I 1 ahe lie order was A as to tut lilt the prisoners boners down with machetes lit in attempting this the rope broke and the soldiers were ordered to fire at the first volley delagoa tell fell forward feigning dath rite rhe second volley sent a bullet irao his thih all the others except one were killed the doctor was left for dead and lost his consciousness when lie he recovered he found himself in his dwelling delling eliere his old father took care of hin him shortly afterward spanish soldiers r Old lers came searching for the two that escaped father hid hini him in a cane field exposed to the inclement weather meantime the old father corn coin ajun with consul general wit wil liams hams and obtained a safe conduct to I 1 havana lavan a where delagoa now I 1 leb under tinder protection of the united states dr delagoa graduated at columbia college LOl lege new york and at a medical college in thal thai alt lie ile was in new york front from 1865 to 1877 when he left to take lake 1 bargl of the dolorea plantation in n cuba |