Santa-Barbara. Eusebio Puello lives in this quarter of Santo-Domingo.

Yet there were always some traitors among them, for before Gravino Puello reached Azua, it was already known there that he was on the road, bearing the manifesto. Buenaventura Baez, the former member of the Constituent Assembly, who wished the eastern part to separate from Haiti and become a French colony, informed Don Mariano Mendoza, commandant of the place, so that he might have the approaches to the town patrolled and lay hands on Gravino Puello. Baez’s step was at once known to the partisans of separation. They decided that citizen Valentin Alcantara, who was one of them, should go to meet Puello at the entrance of Azua, take the manifesto from him and carry it to Pimentel, which was done. Puello turned back and reached the Savana Buey, where he saw Don Mariano Chavarrio, one of the conspirators, who gave him a fresh horse. He took the road to Bani, and when he reached the spot called Hato del Llano he met Don Miguel Labastida, who was also in the plot. Don Miguel told him not to enter Bani, because the commandant of the place, Juan Esteban Céara, had received the order to arrest him. Don Juan was standing in for the titular commandant, citizen Valery, who was on leave at Banica. Puello avoided the town by a crossroad and arrived at Santo-Domingo on Saturday, 24 February, at noon. He entered it not by the Porte del Conde, but alone by the Porte del Rio, or sea gate, and went to the house of his brother Eusebio, who lived at Santa-Barbara. He told him what had happened and said that it was important to assemble the conspirators that very night at the house of Francisco Sanchez. These came in good number; the principal among them were the three brothers Joaquim, Gavino and Eusebio Puello, Ramon Mella, Vicente Duartes, Juan Alejandro Acosta, Angel Perdomo, Jacinto y Tomas Concha, Marcos Rojas, Tomas Sanchez, Manuel Dolores and Rodriguez; this last, though very young, served as secretary; there were some other conspirators, men of less consequence.