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The Trial and Conviction of the Publishers of the Voice of the People-Three Sentenced to be Garroted -Views of the Captain General relative to the Lone Star, &c.
Trials and
Sentences of the Publishers of the Voice of the People; Three to be
Garroted-Total Loss of Spanish Steam Frigate Pizarro-The Mulatto Johnston,
the Public Informer-The Ravages of the Cholera, &c., &c. A court martial presided
over by Brigadier Velasco, was yesterday held at the Real Carcel,
and passed sentence on the prisoners Edwardo Facciolo, Juan Anastasio
Romero, Antonio Bellido Luna, Florentino Toores, Juan Antonio Granados,
Felix Maria Casard, Antonio Palmer, the lawyer Ramon Palma, Antonio
Rubio, Ladislaz Urquizo, and Idelfonso Estrada y Zenea, denounced
by the mulatto Johnston as authors, printers, and accomplices in
the publication of the clandestine subversive paper La Voz del Pueblo.
Sentence (of death,
I understand,) was also passed on Juan Bellido Luna and Andres Ferrer,
who have been fortunate enough to escape to the United States, but
are invited to return here (as you will observe by the official
proclamation) to have their sentences carried into effect. The first
on the list, Edwardo Facciolo, a native of this island, will be
garroted in the course of a day or two.
Don Antonio Bellido
Luna made an eloquent speech in his own defence, but so great was
the concourse of the Catalans and Spaniards which crowded round
the saloon of trial, that no respectable person could get within
hearing distance of what was being said. It appears, however, that
Mr. Luna was arrested because a copy of the Voz del Pueblo was found
in his wardrobe, which was sufficient, in the opinion of his judges,
to pronounce him guilty of treason to her Majesty the Queen of Spain!
But as these decisions
are somewhat curious, please receive them in the original Spanish,
and you will then be better able to draw your own conclusions upon
the sentences which were pronounced on some of those individuals,
declared guilty upon evidence which it would appear almost impossible
should have been received in any court of law against them. Those
condemned to chains at Ceuta, according to Major Schlessinger's
account of that penal settlement, had better have suffered the same
fate as poor Facciolo.
Facciolo was condemned
to death, and others to chains, at Ceuta, through the enpidity of
the informer Johnston; and, considering the character for revenge
generally attributed to the Spanish race, it is somewhat curious
to observe with what impunity that man parades the city.
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/filibusters/voice.htm
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