Show CRUELLY TREATED BY CARRANZA MEN american woman tells talo ol of atrocities MOTHER STARVED TO DEATH suffers eight months of imprisonment and brutal treatment in bandit camp forced by carranza general to carry message to zapata two months trip Is one of hardship and danger brutally treated and stoned starved to death by mexican Alex itan bandits sirs W H who wh 0 left washington a few years ngo ago to join her son inlaw in law and daughter dr and mrs charles T sturgis gla in mexico died last november her hody body wrapped in it strip of matting ile lies in a hole near De demolan Dopol polan nn in ili chipas before 1 dated she l e ww the sturgil plantation sacked sac bcd witnessed the lie cruel ties flint reduced doctor sturgis to n physical wreck and was forced to the indignities suffered by her daug liter tit nt the fiands of carranza soldiers idlers and tho the bandits led by gen n anel cal y INIn mayor a friend ot of zapata dr anil mrs sturgis reached now new orleans a few days ngo ago eight months of imprisonment and brutal treatment in a mexican Alex ican bandit carlp where they were hidden after their plantation was sacked was the experience related by doctor sturgis ls and his wife in mexico 20 years twenty years ago doctor went to mexico to practice ills probes slon of dentistry lie ile also acquired red and cultivated a largo large coffee planta tion and in 1015 cameto anine to washington and married miss coro cora Ne keenright enright mrs keenright tier her mother mot lr went vent to mexico to visit her daughter it was in january 1018 according to mrs biro sturgis gli that they had their first raid tho the raiders wore were sol diers mrs stergh gl said in n letter to friends here commanded by capt leopolda garcia and capt atillo castillano tl ti they swarmed into the house captain garcia pointed his bis rifle at me and at its muzzle forced ine me to search the whole house for him for revola tio narles lie he said then he ordered me to ao climb the roof and search it with him I 1 refused tm rm the wife of nil an american citizen lie rie encored sneered at me inc go ahead and your dour gov er eminent go ahead and kick to my government too it 1 you want to it I 1 wont do tiny any good were going to drive all you damned grIn goes out of the country before were through with you he said well the Carran left us at last and then cattle came the raid of june 20 1018 that was bended lienden by gen rafael cal y mayor blin himself ran away all employees prior to that time we were in difficulties fl cult les por the carranza Carri inza government ordered nil all plantation employee to quit A Carran zIsta agent kept coming I 1 ng regularly if it lie e found any nl III work he threatened to have them hanged on june 20 26 gen cal y taft mayor rode up to the house ills ilia nien men swarmed swarm wl through it they stripped tho the house of everything movable then they took us to the bandit camp as pris boners I 1 wo we were prisoners of gen cal y mayor from june 26 1018 to february 18 1010 1919 it was ns november 13 1018 that my mother died or of stara starvation aaion this gen infidel cal y mayor was a close personal friend ot of zapata on N november 15 1018 lie he had me brought to his shuck get ready for a trip ahe lie told me youre going to carry d message to zapata for mo me youre going to vera cruz and to mexico city it if you try to trick roc me of if youre not back in two months ill kill your husband lie ile sent wath ith me nn an indian woman oman bained clotilde lopez she buo was to keep watch over me traveling on foot on back and sometimes in a canoe tile the iwo awe ft women omen finally reached mexico uty city mrs sturgis made the long journey back to camp ond and saved lio her r husbands life they were held prisoner pria oner several weeks longer and then set free after much trouble they got in fit communication with the Americ nil consul nt at zaline kaline cruz who furnished anoney dent clent to vay pay their expenses ha back c L to tha states |