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Show WASiA FAKE Ilfiii Cuban Uprising was for Purpose of Depressing Depress-ing Stock Market Havana. July 12. The purposo of the conspiracy for which the Mulatto Col. Jort'e Valoru, and his associates, were arrested yesterday, was to compel com-pel Aiuencan Intervention, according to the government's information. Tho secretary of the Interior has issued an official statement that It was learnc4 some days ago that It was designed to blow up bridges and railways rail-ways und destroy property of foreigners foreign-ers with the hope of compelling this result. The euspects, being poor and Ignorant, most of them negroe9, the secretary believed they were acting under the Instigation and orders of persons of superior intelligence- Further Fur-ther Investigation resulted In the discovery dis-covery that the suspects were In constant con-stant communication with a etock-I etock-I broker whose name Is unknown. i rif.tr rintion of him has been oh- talned and the police are making a search for him. The arrests were delayed de-layed until tho conspirators h& started for Vlaja Bremeja where a trunk, containing arras and dynamite, had been shipped the same day and where, It is believed, they intended to bpjdn operations. When arrested, one of the conspirators conspir-ators named Valeria no Pico made a statement declaring that the whole conspiracy wes a fake and worcly an attempt to make a pretene of uprising. upris-ing. Its purpose, he said, was not to cause American Intervention but simply simp-ly to break the local stock market by tomoiltting some damage, not serious, ser-ious, to property. Only four persons were concerned In the conspiracy, he said, the rest of the eight arrested knowing- nothing of tho plot. The (prisoner further declared de-clared that the plot was first suggested suggest-ed by an agent of the government, who Informed him he know an Individual willing to pay Pico and hts four comrades com-rades $5,000 each and to furnish explosives ex-plosives If they would go Into the country and aart a fake revolution. The government ayent declined to give the name of this principal, but assured Pico he was connected with the bourse an designed 6lmply to deproes the market. A few days later three conspirators conspira-tors started for the scene of operations, opera-tions, Pico remaining In Havana to receive the promised $20,000. According Accord-ing to a statement made to Vjeeoto Blanco, who professed to have somo knowledge of the conspiracy, Pico Informed In-formed him that Sonor San Miguel, the editor of La Lucha. was the person per-son financing the conspiracy. The authorities apparently attach no Importance to this charge as Sen-or Sen-or San Miguel sailed for New York yesterday. |