diced b Jos e S. Arc a, - non

connection to the military uprising could not be proven, conclusively. Indeedin his cablegram to the Overseas Ministry on 10 February, Izquierdo lumpedthe cases together in this way:War Council continuing trials condemned to death 11 native artillery andCamerino executed by garrote, the artillery indulted. 33On 12 February, Izquierdo ordered that the sentence of Rafael CaIda andCleto Yance, "death convicts but pardoned" be carried out in one of thegarrisons in Africa. Communicated to the Overseas Ministry twelve dayslater, this decision was based on "Cleto Yance's having boasted that in thegarrison he would provoke new conflicts."'These words from the official letter No. 442 make one pause. What helpdid this Yance, and probably Calda too, have or was counting on, to indulgein such falseful boasts, seeing that even without it others had already beenshot for the same crime of conspiring in a revolution? Was this braggadocioreally the reason to exile them in Europe as they had been sentenced, orsimply an excuse to separate them from companions they had alreadyseduced, or again, lest they carry out another type of "false boasting?""With regard to their part in the mutiny, we know from CorporalTolentino's declarations cited in those passages of the acts of the trial ofFr. Burgos and copied by Artigas y Cuerva that "he met on Palacio StreetCorporal Calda, Yance, and Corteza, who mentioned the native pastor of SanPedro as president.""FIFTH TRIALNext in order of time comes precisely the trial of that pastor of San Pedro,Jose Burgos, who Calda and Yance had told the executed Jose Tolentinowould be the future president of the Philippine Republic. Of this trial a copyof which Artigas y Cuerva had and was being kept in the Philippine NationalLibrary in 1910, we know only what this author published in his Sucesos de1872, and the sentence, according to which Burgos, Gomez, Zamora, andZaldua were condemned to death and executed as instigators and accomplicesof the revolution. This charge, however, does not appear in theofficial news of their condemnation and execution announced in the Gacetade Manila (18 February 1872). In this same trial, the sentence of 10 years'imprisonment was imposed on Maximo Inocencio, Enrique Paraiso, and51