CHAPTER 24: Last

Homecoming and Trial

Last Home Coming

October
6,

1896

October 8,
1896
Rizal learned that the Madrid
papers were full of stories
regarding the revolutions in
the Philippines.

I believe that what God

is doing to me is a
blessing, allowing me to
go back to the
Philippines in order to be
able to destroy such
accusations.

Confiscation of Rizals
Diary

October 11,
1896
Rizals diary was confiscated during his
way to Port Said.

November 2,
1896
Rizals diary was returned to him.

*Rizal was not able to record the events

from October 12 to November 1

Unsuccessful Rescue in
Singapore

Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor

Lopez

Sixto

 Hugh Fort- an English lawyer in

Singapore

Habeas corpus

Chief Justice
Loinel Cox
denied the writ on the
ground that the Colon was
carrying Spanish troops to
the Philippines.

Arrival in Manila

November 3,
1896
Jose Rizal arrived at Manila

Deodato Arellano
Dr. Pio Valenzuela
Moises Salvador
Jose Dizon
Domingo Franco
Temoteo Paez
Pedro Serrano Laktaw

Preliminary Investigation

November 20,
96
preliminary investigation
was conducted.

 Judge Advocate,

Colonel
Francisco
Olive
5-day
investigation.

Two Evidences:
Documenta
ry
Testimonial

Documentary Evidences:

1. A letter from
Antonio to
Mariano
Ponce
2. A letter of Rizal to
his family
3. A letter from
Marcelo H. del Pilar to

4. A poem entitled
Kundiman
5. A letter from
Carlos Oliver to an
unidentified person
6. A Masonic lodge
document

8. A letter of
Dimasalang to an
unidentified committee
9. An anonymous and
undated letter to the
Editor ofthe Hongkong
Telegraph

10. A letter of
Ildefonso Laurel to
Rizal, 1892
11. A letter of
Ildefonso to Rizal,
1893

12. A letter to
Marcelo H. del Pilar to
Don Juan A. Tenluz
(Juan Zulueta)
13. Transcript of a
speech of Pingkian
(Emilio Jacinto) in a
reunion to a

14. Transcript of speech

of Tik-Tik (Jose Turiano
Santiago) in the same
Katipunan reunion
15. A poem by Laong Laan
(Jose Rizal)
entitledTalisay

 Martin Constantino
Aguedo del Rosario
Jose Reyes
Moises Salvador
Jose Dizon

 Domingo Franco
Deodato
Arellano
Ambrosio
Salvador
Pedro Serrano

 Dr. Pio
Valenzuela
Antonio Salazar
Francisco Quison
Temoteo Paez

November 6,
1896
after the investigation, Col.
Olive transmitted the records
of the case to Gov. Gen.
Ramon Blanco

Pea submitted the

following
recommendations:
The accused should be
immediately brought to
trial
He should be kept in prison

 An order of attachment be
issued against his
property to the amount
P1M as an indemnity
He should be defended in
court by an army officer,
not by a civilian officer.

Rizal Chooses His Defender:

December 8,
1896
100 first and second
lieutenants in the Spanish
Army was presented to Rizal

Lt. Taviel de
Andrade

Reading of Information of Charges

to the accused

December 11,
1896
The information of charges was
formally read to Rizal in his
prison cell.

Rizals Manifesto to
His People

December 15,
1896
Rizal wrote a manifesto
to his people

Rizals Saddest Christmas

December
25, 1896

The Trial of Rizal

December 26,
1896
The court-martial of Rizal started
in the military building:

de Espaa

Cuartel

Polavieja signs
Rizals execution

Dec. 28, 1896

Gov. Gen Polavieja approved the
decision of the court-martial, ordering
Rizal to be shot at 7am of Dec.30

at Bagumbayan Field (Luneta)