ABSTRACT
William Randolph Hearst’s vision of the “journalism of action” found it most dramatic expression on the moonlit rooftop of the Casa de Recogidas, a wretched jail for women in Havana. During the early hours of October 7, 1897, Karl Decker, a Washington-based reporter for Hearst’s New York Journal, and two accomplices, used Stilson wrenches to snap a bar of the prison window, allowing the escape of Evangelina Cosío y Cisneros, a petite, nineteen-year-old Cuban accused of plotting against Spanish military authority.
