Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — CUBA’S AMERICAN PRISONERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUBA’S AMERICAN PRISONERS.

Owen Milton and Alfredo Laborde, Who Were Condemned to Die. The American citizens who are causing all the trouble between Spain and the United States are Owen Milton, a news-

paper correspondent, and Alfredo Laborde, who was in command of the schooner Competitor when she was captured by the Spanish gunboat. MHton is the son of D. W. Milton, who was a lieutenant in the Confederate n rmv

; .... —.. oonieaerate army. He is but 23, a college man, of medium stature, with good features, a fair complexion and a slight mustache. Of late he had been living in Florida. He went thither from Arkansas, where he had been teaching school. He drifted to Key es U and was there a correspondent for several western newspapers. When the war came in Cuba he determined to go to the island, reach the insurgent lines, and furnish true stories of the revolution to American newspapers. He had engaged himself to do this for a Jacksonville paper among others, and was furnished with the usual credentials. Be-

fore leaving Key West Milton stipulated that part of his salary be sent to his father, who lives at Aurora, Ark. All these facts go to disprove the Spanish claim that Milton was taken with arms in hand. The other Ameri-

can is Alfredo Laborde. He is 33 years old and was born in New Orleans. His father is a retired colonel in the Spanish army and lives in Havana. Captain Laborde has two brothers in New York and two sisters and five children near Havana. Another brother was one of the nine students who were shot in Cuba in 1871 for the desecration of Castonioni's grave. It was this event that moved the father to retire from the Spanish army. Laborde was twice married. His present wife, to whom he was wedded only a short time ngo, is now residing with her parents at Key West.

OWEN MILTON.

ALFREDO LABORDE.