Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . r overheard the remark, and repeated it toa Spanish judge, with a further accusation that the students had defacedthe glass which closed the Castaiion tomb. Forty-three of the studentswere arrested, charged with the offense, and brought to trial before a courtmartial. They were defended by a Spanish officer, Capdevilla, and by hiseloquence and the clear evidence of their innocence, were acquitted. Theresult of the trial enraged the V
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . r overheard the remark, and repeated it toa Spanish judge, with a further accusation that the students had defacedthe glass which closed the Castaiion tomb. Forty-three of the studentswere arrested, charged with the offense, and brought to trial before a courtmartial. They were defended by a Spanish officer, Capdevilla, and by hiseloquence and the clear evidence of their innocence, were acquitted. Theresult of the trial enraged the Volunteers, and they obtained from, theCaptain-General an order for the assembling of a second court maiiial,two-thirds of the members of which should be Volunteers. The boys werea second time arrested and a second time put in jeopardy of their a trial which was a farce, all the accused were declared guilty. Eightof them, mere boys, the oldest sixteen years, were chosen by lot to be rest were sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor. The father of oneof the boys condemned to death, who possessed an immense fortune, in PARKS AND PRADO. 5Q. THE STUDENTS MEMORIAL. vain offered all his wealth as a ransom for his sons life. On November27, 1871, in the presence of 15,000 Spanish Volunteers under arms, theboys were executed on this spot. The panel records the event and thenames of the victims: On the 27th of November, 1871, there were sacrificed in front of this place, by theSpanish Volunteers of Havana, the eight young Cuban students of the First Yearof Medicine: Alonso Alvarez de la Campa,Carlos Augusto de Latorre,Pascual Rodriguez Perez,Angel Laborde, To their eternal memory, this tablet is dedicated, the 27th of November, 1899. Jose de Marcos Medina,Eladio Gonzalez Toledo,Anacleto Bermudez,Carlos Verdugo. In the bronze wreath beneath is inscribed Inocentcs. Sus de Mayo, 1902—Innocent. Their Comrades. May 20, 1902, The affair created intense indig
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