Show NEWSPAPER correspondent CAPTURED v by spaniards while sick meah insurgent hospital i ni al supposed thae now confined in state department will act at once delgado was correspondent of new york mail and express new york dec 24 henry delgado an american citizen the news of whoso capture in a cuban hospital by spanish troops was confirmed this morning is a special correspondent of the mail and express detailed two months ago to join the insurgent army in pinar del rio the who was landed in cuba by one of the expeditions from this country went strictly in his capacity as a news commissioners for the purpose of telling the truth fust as he found it when he left here he carried letters of introduction to maceo and to another cuban general when cap aured these letters vere found on him together with an order from maceo to the prefect of lae tumbas commending the dearer to his consideration and courtesy these documents could scarcely be regarded as incriminating mr delgado reached camp in the hills and in his quest for news tramped nearly nearly miles one of his ankles gave way and he was obliged to go to bed in one of the field hospitals there he was taken with several companions pan ions he is bow believed to be in morro castle immediately upon learning these facts the mail and express telegraphed to secretary of state ainey in washington and cabled to consul general lee iu havana asking that the legal of mr delgado be regarded and that if be has not already been shot that the execution be stayed until it can be shown that hie mission was not one of sympathy or intended participation with either side the cable to consul genera lee has probably been acted upon by vice consul springer mr delgado was born in this city and lived nearly all his life here and in brooklyn he was educated in the institute and was afterward graduated the mount pleasant military academy he married miss granger of hudson N Y ago his wife is in new york the couple have one child THE STORY inest that delgado was adjutant general under maceo havana dec 24 enrique delgado alio is described as an adjutant general of aba rebel generals staff was captured in the prefecture of general Melq aizo on december ath yesterday be ans brought tn havana and imprisoned in in the san ambrosio hospital II 11 is unknown whether be is wounded or sick the american consulate has taken up the case and will submit it to the government as belgado claims that he is an american citizen and came to cuba as the correspondent of a new york evening newspaper he denies he was a rebel officer or that he took any active part in the rebellion he ia known to many persons in havana and elee where in cuba he at one lime being a purser in the employ of the new york and cuba mail steamship A spanish newspaper reporter says ahai when captured delgado had in bis possession a letter to the late Antonio maceo the rebel leader who was killed recently near punta brava and an order irom maceo to the rebel prefect of the district in which he was captured directing the prefect to treat him aitu ail the courtesy due his rank captain azario castillo and eleven of hia tol lowera have surrendered at call mete province of mantanzas it i reported that alie rebel leader juan on the night of dec 22 |