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Show MEXICANS MURDER AMERIGANGONSUL AGED MAN SHOT DOWN BY BANDITS WHILE ON HIS WAY TO HIS HOME. rmerican Storekeeper Also Killed in Battle With Bandits Who Had Crossed the Border Intent on Robbing Postoffice. Nogales. Ariz. The state department depart-ment at Washington lias been advised that Augustus Morill, formerly American Ameri-can consul at Manzanillo, Mexico, was killed by Mexican bandits February Febru-ary L'G. Mr. Morrill was SS years old and retired from the consular service In 1SS1. The present consul at Manzanillo, in reporting the killing to the stale department, de-partment, said Morrill was attacked while on his way to the Hacienda VA Balcon, three miles from Ce-lmn, where he lived, and in a fusillnJe of pistol shots received two wounds. The American embassy at Mexico City has been instructed to make urgent ur-gent representations to the Mexican government looking to the arrest and punishment of the murderers and the American consulate at Manzanillo has been instructed to make similar representations repre-sentations to the local Mexican authorities. authori-ties. Mr. Morrill's widow, who 'i SO years old, lives at Colima. Alexander Frazier, American storekeeper store-keeper and mining engineer, is dead, and his brother, J. A. Frazier, in a critical cri-tical condition as a result of a battle with two Mexican bandits wlio raided a general store owned by the Frazier brothers at Montana Camp, Ruby post-office, post-office, thirty miles from here and near the Mexican .line. The bandits had crossed the border for the purpose of robbery and succeeding succeed-ing in making their escape after the shooting. |