Show LIGHT LOT O G Gur UP ur OP OF f THE T MAI MAINE I f fI Now New March 28 tho the bat battleship Maine through an all error was not tuot destroyed ClI hp hI h a n bomb of ot his hula tuto tum tub was Willi the statement made by Gess Gesa ler her Tombs prison today was convicted yesterday of having sent explosives to tho the Cunard hue lino pier this tillS city In May 11 1903 Ho lie mado mullo tho following today For 1 or several years while tho Cuban patriots were struggling against Wey We lei I watched the contest with deep In forest and I decided to go goto goto goto to Jacksonville and ancl do what I could to assist 0 the tho revolutionists I started front from 81 St Louis where I had been living dur lur log ing the thc early part of or 1897 Before taking n a train for thA south Muth together the tar for the tho con eon construction ot of I r two exploding machines of or tremendous power BO so o arranged that they could be wound cound up and left In a selected piece with the certainty that i they the would go off ott with terrible than within n II tow few hours At Now New I ranted d a room and put tho the boxes boxell together which I wont want on op to Jacksonville There I be ba became came acquainted n with a 1 party of at Cuban Culan readers maders who were planning PInning a 11 filibuster filibusterIng Ing In expedition They had hall engaged tho the Destroyer a small vessel essel to talc tak them to Cuba Culm along with a II ot Amer American lean ican mid and European who ero anxious to strike a II blow for Cu Cuban Cuban Cuban ban freedom Several of tho the leaders leader of tho the party part oro aro men nen now flow welt well known and nud I will not mention their thel the although I have among jn Jut papers a Li list of them nil nilI I 1 suggested to them that they usa my machines to destroy deMroy h wee war warships ships In III the harbor of oC and In iii other ports port II on VII the coast of at the Island Isla lid They readily seized selred upon ullon the tho Idea and when tho the Destroyer Dr r willed with tho the they tIle the took my two to n with thom them It lt was its my lily Intention to go JO along with the tho party pmt FO so 0 as tue to direct the tho work orle nf ot sinking the Spanish ships but they dissuaded me inc urging that I could bo lie 10 of or greater grenter use the In lii preparing other othol machines If It the ilet proved suc sue c rul It uvas OK planned to have havo some sonie mem members bers hera of or tho the revolutionary ry party part Join tho the navy so as nR to 10 get the thu th aboard If It that failed Collect It wa Willi decided to one olle nf ot tho hio boxes to tho the hull of a n ship under the tho water line for I had bad my machine so 80 they could be lie under the water Tint Thit was lute late In the tho fall of 1807 The Tho next spring the Maine was do de troyed Only JOnly On one of o the thu men IlIOn In the secret of the tho machines ever eer returned to America I saw him Borne amo time after the war with had hael hun begun He told mo me he lie lied had nothing to do with the boxes after r reaching Cuba but had been ben told taU a n mistake Mil lied been leen he n made maele Tha rho min who had been b en Instructed with ith tho limo task tn of destroying n Spanish h attempted To 10 o le II a box hox during the time night to one omme at ot Alfonsos warships and blundered Into blowing up the I r wis VIR I told toli tol that man Immedi Immediately after fitter learning of the error he ho had hili made committed l said Eld he had attempted to blow hlo up UI U tho time of Frederick th thO the Great Orent In Washington because ho he did III not no wish to see se time the statues of ot a in iii America merla merla He ItO le uld that he hue hI was wall not in aim 1 or cur a it t and that ho hohnl hail had m mude 10 no n rort to supply exploding ex machines to time the |