Show TRE THEOLD BODGE 0 of a political political prisoner PrIson erys j basure 1 VV ca MAO 1 www i A A good many of our read readers drs we have do doubt have heard beard af tho adin nu a attempts t ts made by cor tain lain parties outside of this continent nent to play the confidence fackel achet ac ket on t tha credulity of people 1 iila litia plots involving 01 olf persecutions in ih cuba bidden revolutionary treasures and promises of large percentages to the generous rescuer who wo blid implored by ily fan unfortunate ir I 1 patriot lingering ill id loathsome arison prison v where he hides accrete eh Ired we thought this transparent didgo bad become so old so stale state and so threadbare thread bare as to have been abandoned WesTe member first baling it itne nearly ariy thirty galbut gol but obrown personal knowledge ath it commenced in 1872 at the tte ti afine m e of the rebellion in spain when a friend in switzerland Switzer lanb tabt joithe writer on e day a letter erter in spanish in which the depicted WS tei terrible trials he was under g going anthe dungeon deeps deep gossa tf spain at 6 the hands tha g of r pan ish government gallers who held him imprisoned because ho be would nat betray the tile secret A a of bf the treas ure of the insurrectionists was wai hidden the tile correspondent lh then en went on to detail that ho he would reveal the cache to the ad drass such and such consideration etc of course let the plot fell through at least in in 1 fist 1 anci although alth bukh we ye recollect numerous 1 in instances stancel where in id various ious parts of or europe gullible peo were caught va on the birdlime bird birg lime liall thi li b rough tout out on the translucent u cent tablets olour of our memory cryb by ka viletter ai letter received a few days ago 0 ty by a well known citizen of ogden the sum substance of which we vre burp purpose ose to give give in the following the letter dated Havana political prisons which in itself is a bogus 8 sept though written in a fair latin hand in ta 1 9 language b has all 11 the evi evidences dences of being a t tyros ro a translation fram the spanish ta the idio idiomatic matie phraseology and construction st cf which are clumsily transferred to the englise ver vernace lar sr c after a feeble attempt at gaining tal ane i confidence and with the writers writer desperate Ds dilemma the letter states that in Y alde t who gives 18 name Ss ph ag auar far was an officer in t the h spanish army but descried and embraced the cuban cause in 1877 he vaa was commissioned b by thu executive col letb 0 r d n dortho 0 war rid incura in Cuba lu in less than a month he had ire recollected in currency and oz in sli gold with hys for fir that re public io evidently meaning ti the united ita tep tb givel accounts io to the tile cuban revolutionary com 71 york ark froni from which diw however C er ho fie dess isted seeing the tile shameful disorder that existed between their members therea thereupon 0 he decided to return to tho Island n d but ut def determined oh A putting the val uc him hini ifft into a safe place which gho L lie did burring them ina m left in the neighborhood city new york ED taken at same time a croquis broquis of the I 1 lace a C e wHIch Ek ept in a secret of E is s valise i crha the mysterious ph A then recounts bowon landing lauding in havana he hd i rit prison acted to for incidence and his luggage was confiscated the purpose of big writing gradually dal wilar akon 1 the mind when A agallar Ag gul ullar 11 ai hints il tl thethis a t bis release de pend upon su a gold key for the tile remittance of which he aske asks prom tu pad vroom ae ne enji enjoins oi ns the tile greatest ireat cst secrecy in tile alo ephird part of said values e 4 a als sato to pay to him the expenses be he may advance to recuperate them qu our r friend us this leuhr 60 th thlik inke wants to e bucs neither doca does he intend to respond to the noble cuban captive with the ur apt answer although his kastilian E english ng ii is li pra prayer er a promise wit th at the Ha Ila vanese patriot himself to remie remit the the entel that will pate paten niue ahe he adrai r the TU affair looks too much ni OY ly when we ait o 0 nver over to page t three t iree of the blue we in quarto sheet odthe of the letter where instruction is given awad to ad dress I 1 11 il I 1 ellerin 1 pe 4 sr da do blas juvenez Ju aine S ratael rafael 4 ta baberia bau eria habana cuba ithe mccond ec cond enve loppe to A 11 that hat gay aad d festee tive s anav arat are V at t van san t which ch means jn ili cold classic anglo saxon a to with wine room at tacil apt yell me time before zur our og ogden en fellow ellow citizen to extricate thel 14 alack halb 11 f az tl Y aole himm tho e political prisons there are arp prison eyen e lo 10 Ady aguilar a criminal eri raj pipal minal prison cell would appropriate I 1 f |