Office of the Historian

Mr. Williams to Mr. Uhl.

United States Consulate-General,
Habana, October 19, 1895.
No. 2627.]

Sir: With reference to previous correspondence in relation to the arrest of Mr. Julio Sanguily, on the charge of rebellion, I beg to inform you that Mr. Viondi, his advocate, called at this office yesterday to tell me that the court had delivered him the proceedings in the case for his examination and for the preparation of his defense against the accusation formulated against Sanguily by the prosecuting attorney, which is based, as published by La Discusion of the 16th instant, upon the following counts:

1.
That the accused was one of the most active promoters and instigators of the armed insurrection that broke out on the 24th of last February against the mother country for the purpose of declaring the independence of the island, he being designated to lead the insurrectional movement in the provinces of Habana, Matanzas, and Santa Clara, having issued, as leader and principal chief and as delegate of the revolutionary junta in New York, the appointments esteemed by him as contributing to that purpose, among them naming one Don José Yuocencio Aseny, colonel of the insurgent army.
2.
Those acts constitute a crime of rebellion, as defined in article 237, number 1, and punishable under article 236 of the penal code.
3.
The accused is charged with direct participation in the promotion of the insurrectional movement.
4.
There exist no mitigating circumstances worthy of appreciation.
5.
The penalties proposed and solicited by the prosecuting attorney are those of imprisonment for life with chain, with the accessory ones of article 53 of the code, and payment of half the expenses of trial.

The proofs upon which the prosecuting attorney will base his action are: Documents, consisting of reports and depositions on folios 8 to 12 and 21 to 24; certificate on folio 24; letters on folios 36 and 46; expert examination on folio 88; letter on folio 94; official notes on folios 98 to 102; report on folio 107; official note on folio 115; letter of appointment on folio 236, and expert examination of same on folio 243.

I am, etc.,

Ramon O. Williams.