GUATEMALA ATROCITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 250, 15 October 1908, Page 4

GUATEMALA ATROCITIES.

AKJ.iIYAL 01' GUiVliOAl' STOPS EXECUTION. San Francisco, August 25. Each steamer arriving from Central |,America, brings its (juoia of stories re- |. gurding tue alleged atrocities oi President Cabrera of Guatemala. The latest story is that lie was on the point of ordering the execution of Uiree Italian brothers ntimed Tmetti, wijen ■the Italian cruiser l'uglia, darted into the harbour of Guatemala, rescued tile , condemned ones from tiie wrath of tins notorious ruler of the little republic. ( According to S. !•'. l'ellas, the son of a wealthy planter of Nicaragua, who arrived on tllie steamer San Juan yesterday on 'his way to Stanford University, where he is to study, Cabrera is still pursuing the same tactics <ts have heretofore been reported. 'Hie Tiuetti brothers, l'ellas, said , were mechanics. They liad been suspected of making castings for bombs ,which were to be intended for Cabrera, .and were shadowed by the President's agents, arrested and varown into a dungeon. Here they wure tortured by the , guards, who jammed their gun muzzles into their stomachs and called upon , them to confess. The brothers would confess nothing, as they claimed they were innocent, and according to l'ellas, were immediately condemned to be hanged. The cruiser Puglia had entered tire Harbour just at this time, and her captain was notified by a countryman of the Tinetti brothers of what was going on. A detachment of armed marines was sent ashore and demanded the liberty of the imprisoned Italians. Willi many excuses and apologetic bows Cabrera ordered that they lie released. Tliev then made their esi„pe from the ter-ror-striken country and lied to Honduras, according to tile story of l'ellas.