Hugo Pérez, was an indio. He was the venerable of the masonic lodge. In
his house were discovered two large photographs in which the majority
of the thirteen persons executed were photographed in the form of
a triangle; a book with a triangle and other masonic insignia on
its front page, and four important letters of anti-Spanish masonic
propaganda.
Lallana was a tailor, and some say a peninsular Spaniard. For a while
he was chief of police of Cavite and had been a corporal of Marines.
Antonio San Agustin was an indian, a petty merchant and a man who
could scarcely bear the sight of a Spaniard.
Agapito Conchu was a master of a primary school, and a half-caste. He
had once been detained in the time of Despujols but granted his
liberty. Apart from his school, he gave lessons to some of the children
of the Spanish families of the town, including the daughter of the
Governor of Cavite.
Cabuco was an escribiente [91] of the administration of State; and
Eugenio Cabezas a watch-tinker.
These executions were followed by that of a member of the Guardia
Civil, Mariano Magno, in Nueva Ecija. Magno had always been noted for
his lack of obedience to his superiors, his hatred of discipline and
ill-feeling in general towards Spaniards. Fifteen others were shot in
Iligan on the 28th of October of the same year. Many others suffered
the like penalty in different parts of the Archipelago.
Note 100. Those sentenced to deportation were, for the most part, sent
to Jolo, Puerta Princesa, Balabac and to the penitentiary colonies.
To the first named place were sent 69 persons of all kinds and
conditions, trades and occupations. Among them was a Juan Cuadra,
a chemist in Ermita. To Puerta Princesa went 53, and to Balabac 56
both lots well assorted. Those most compromised in the insurrection
were sent to Fernando Poo, these numbering some 200. Three hundred
more were sent to Mindanao. Among the 200 sent to Fernando Poo were
merchants, compositors, silversmiths, book-binders, carriage painters,
laundrymen, escribientes, a clerk of the Puerta del Sol on the Escolta,
hat-makers, tailors, laborers, students, lawyers and among them the
irrepressible jack-in-the-box, Thomas William of the Rosary (Tomas
G. del Rosario); telephone operators, school-teachers and three members
of the secret police; among the rag and tag of the good-for-nothings,
and as chief of them, was the famous translator of the scriptures,
Pascual H. Poblete [92].
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