diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

Eleven of those found guilty were condemned to death, and one, whoreported the conspiracy to a sergeant of another company was sentenced toten years. Once again, we are faced with the anomaly of a person condemnedfor the crime of having denounced an insurrection he had known beforehand.Moreover, as all those condemned to die were indulted, we are left with thefact that both conspirators and men who had reported the plot suffered thesame penalty of ten years' imprisonment, even if the former were detainedand the second was not. The truth is that the latter suspect could haveconcluded or it could have been brought up against him by the rest that it wasnot worth the trouble spying on his comrades.This occurred in Manila on 6 February 1872. In the decree granting theindult issued the next day and published on the 8th in the Gaceta, Izquierdojustified the decision in these terms:Considering that the guilty were seduced and fooled by the plotters whom theyserved as blind tools;Considering that the law shall be inexorable with the plotters and that withoutconsiderations of any kind they will suffer the severe and exemplary penalty theircrime deserves . .29Clearly, instead of justifying the indult, Izquierdo was preparing andprejudicing public opinion in favor of the "exemplary" punishment he hadalready decided on before the respective tribunal pronounced sentence?°No other information on the fourth case is available than the sentencepublished in the Gaceta de Manila (10 February) and the inclusion of thesuspects in the "Estado que manifiesta las sentencias impuestas por losConsejos de guerra celebrados para ver y fallar las causas instruidas conmotivo del alzamiento que tuvo lugar en la plaza de Cavite los dial 20 al 22de Enero proximo pasado" and signed by Lieutenant Colonel Juan AlvarezArenas on 10 April 1872?'Previous communications made public reported that the alleged crimewas "rebellion" and "complicity." However, it was only in this fourth casethat the penalties were expressed, and that those who had been tried "allbelonged to the so called Compania de Guias de la provincia de CavitenAll the sentences pronounced at the end of this fourth trial were carriedout, for the only one condemned to death, Sergeant Casimiro Camerino, wasnot spared but executed by garrote vil on 9 February, unlike thosecondemned earlier and executed by firing squad. This difference could showwhy the crime imputed to them had not been made public, a crime whose50