| Show I ISI TROOPS lO LOSE E TRAIL 0 OF f BANDITS IS hase South of pf Border to Capture l Mexican C Slayers of Postmaster at RuEy 2 Believed d Futile Br DT T TUCSON Ariz AriL Feb 29 A 9 A de- de of troops and w a cit citizens citizens' zens' zens posse that penetrated Mexico Merico in search of bandits who killed kille Assistant nt Postmaster A A. K Frazer in n a raid on the tho mining town of Ruby Ariz have given up the chase and will return to the American side tonight according to a 1 telephone message received from Chief of Police B Bailey ley of T Tucson who ho Accompanied tho troops According S' S to the tb lago b from Bal e tho the bandits believed to be six in number n fled led through h Colorado org T I rl ci 4 1 tl left no no trail frail th that t tc c could Uld ld b be f followed after atter they had ent entered r d Jt Bloodhounds 9 had followed the trail over soft sort ground but lost It when tho the dr dry stony surface was encountered Tho The tr trail l wa was followed by tho the troopers troop troop- ers under extreme difficulty to the thc point where it was lost The trail wasso was wasso so narrow through the deep defiles denIes that tho the party was ag forced to travel single file In some somo places there thero was a J. J sheer fall of or 00 OO feet and a a. l. l misstep meant death Jack Frazer who was wounded by the bandits who killed his brother Assistant Assistant Assistant Assist Assist- ant Postmaster Frazer was reported recovering In a a. hospital at Nogales to tonight to- to night Ho was unable however to sivo the authorities any additional information information tion that would lead to tho the identity of or ortho tho the bandits I A State Department Gets Report of Raid By fly Associated 1 Pro Washington ton Fob Feb 29 State State department depart depart- ment mont officials today declined to comment comment com corn ment o of teh killing of or Alexander K Frazer American citizen and the se serious serious so- so rious wounding o of his brother Jack Frazer said to be bo a Canadian during b L raid Friday by side of ot tho the border In Arizona Tho The raid was reported to tho the department today by bt tho the American consul at Nogales who said that the bandits looted tho the general store operated by the Frazer brothers and robbed the at nub Ruby Santa Santa Santa San San- ta Cruz Crus count county Ariz Dispatches from Nogales 1 toda today stated Continued on Page 2 I I I II I I U u. u S. S TROOPS lSE LOSE TRAIL OF BANDITS Continued from Page 1 1 that deputy deput sheriffs from Cruz Crux count county and a posse from Tucson crossed crosset tho the international boundary into Mexico last night In lii pursuit of or the bandits The Tho war var department had no report on I tho the Incident and ald Secretary Baker r said alt I I the tile matter mater was entirely entire In tho the hands hand o of MaJ laJ Gen Con Joseph T. T DIckman com com- I J m bander of or the southern department Troop roop A of or thc the Tenth cavalry u a re regiment is at Arh ca It wa was wal said at I the tile war department Most of the thc Tenth Is at al Fort Huachuca Art Arix but tho the first rt I drun loss less troops A and C C. C are at No Noales troop C Is at Lochiel and troop J Is at I Naco The Tile Twenty fifth th infantry also ahlo n negro organization aton Is t t I Nogales ales rho Tho Nineteenth lh Infantry and I Ithe the First l ca cavalry white units arc at Douglas and vicinity Troop A of Tenth I Reported on Trail Trai San Antonio Tex Tex Feb 20 Troop 20 Troop A of th the Tenth ca cavalry with wih headquarters at Fort Huachuca Ariz Ails Is scouring the country around Rub Ruby Ariz for some clue to the bandits who Saturday J killed med Alexander K g l' l fazo postmaster and anil wounded his brother Jack Fr Fraser zer Col W W. A. A Holbrook southern Bouthern department Col chief of ot staff start said tonight I |
