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CHAPTER 8
Section 3: Unknown Trials After The Mutiny I. Trial and The GOMBURZA Execution A. Rafael Izquierdo i. Responsible for anomalies, incongruity of sentences and executions ii. Dispatched to Cotabato suspected troops without submitting them to a trial because, in his own words, “all the indigenos are in the same situation.” B. Supreme War Council - the judiciary arm of Spain i. Founded that there was no sufficient evidence to have executed GOMBURZA ii. Condemned all actions and decisions of Izquierdo iii. Supreme War Council’s Decisions 1. Declared that lzquierdo abused his powers and exercised powers that he did no possess 2. Stressed that judicial sentences should be based on evidence presented to the court II. Trials After The Mutiny A. A Group Of Marine Artillery i. Manila bench found one guilty, and ranted an indult to the rest ii. The Supreme War Council declared that the Manila tribunal was incompetent to pass judgment because neither its presiding officer nor its members belonged to the same body as the accused B. The Twelve Artillerymen i. Found guilty of rebellion because they has admitted knowledge of the plan before it was carried out ii. Eleven of them received the death sentence, one that of life imprisonment, because he reported what he had known to the authorities III. Birth Of Nationalism A. The public execution of three Catholic priests traumatized a young Jose Rizal B. Rizal wrote to Mariano Ponce that if not for 1872 he would have become a Jesuit C. Rizal would have had written a completely different novel, instead, he wrote Noli me Tangere D. Cavite was the birthplace of Filipino Nationalism
Section 4— Possible Masonic Intervention In The Cavite Mutiny The British Corvette Nassau A. Sailed out of Manila on January 12, 1872 or three days before the mutiny B. Carried ammunition C. Suspicious movements II. The American Battleship Benecia A. Informed the people beforehand about the Cavite Mutiny B. Left Manila Bay two days before the mutiny started III. Possible Masonic Intervention A. Scottish rite masons in Hong Kong and Philippine liberals and masons i. Brought Filipinos exiles from Philippines to Hong Kong ii In 1875, dispatched two boats to the Philippines which were apprehended hut released after energetic protests from London and Berlin iii. Masons were the real in the Colony iv. Spain Exercised caution in dealing with masons to avoid foreign conflicts |
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