THE HAVANAH BUTCHERY.

Evening Star, Issue 4107, 26 April 1876, Page 4

THE HAVANAH BUTCHERY.

A gentleman who arrived in New York on the. 10th, gives the following account of the. execution of seven persons which took place on the 26th nit, on a plantation in Cuba, called 11 Santon Cristo. This plantation is owned by Francisco Gonzales Arago, and is situated in Vuelta de Abajo, near Quibicon, in the jurisdiction of Bejneal. it seems a female slave resisted the advances of the overseer of the plantation,, who then told such stories about the woman that her owner ordered ‘her to be severely whipped, and when the punishment was about to be inflicted it was found that the woman would soon become a

mother. Her fellow-slaves thought on that account she might escape, but she was , "Whipped in a terrible manner. During the whipping her child was born, and her husband and six other slaves then plotted to, kill their master in re-

yenge for the brutality practised upon the woman; but failing to find him at the . appointed time, they killed the overseer. Arago, the owner, reported the killing of Mayoote as only the first step toward Causing an insurrection among his slaves ip favor of the insurgents, and that those engaged were conspirators. After a trial by court-martial, in which three were sentenced to be shot, another trial took place, and hj seven were condemned to death. The sen'fence was soon executed at Arago’s plantation. The mother of the husband of the woman subjected to bastinado was compelled to stand first in the line of slaves paraded to witness the shooting.