Show HELD IN BONDAGE Brut Treatment of Laborers By Yucatan Contractors HXTKADITION AMONG THE STATES r Boger A Error I ItViews Governors Hill j Lowry Ho oy and ForakerTry to Save Kllraln ln a Spiritual Vaj I Special to TiE HERALD Examiner dispatch NEW YORK July 13There were re rcU cd by the World some weeks ago letters from residents of New York complaining I that they had been lured Into going to Mer I ida and Progress Yucatan by promises made by Liverpool Jack keeper of a no x > rious employment agency They were old that they would receive employment there at good wages Instead of that they found themselves in actual slavery there forced to work beyond their strength for wages insufficient to buy them food enough to eat and not permitted to leave there ov en if they had money enough to pay their passage A World representative was sent to Vucatan June 15 Ho returned jester t vith a number of victims whom hehai rescued Ho found according to his report to be nblished today that near one hundred und fifty men ef n nationahtiesincluding native born citizens of the United States were held in Progress and Merida in what was practically slavery They were paid wages but tho w age j were not sufficient to jrocuro them sufficient food or clothes or furnish them proper sleeping places They were required to work long hours In that tropical climate and when they refused to yore longer they wei c driven to the cala oooso bj the police and soldiers and locked jp in filthy dungeons some of them being copt there for days without food Some of thee had died whilo others were pros k tratcdbv sickness some had become insane in-sane and all were in the utmost misery The pretext under which they were held was that they had signed contracts t pay for their passages and the expense of bring ng them there They were told that they couldnt leave until they had worked long enough to icpaj this monEY In somecases tho American consul Thompson had ob tamed the release of the victims but the tinc ireatr number were unable to obtain re Finding that the treatment these men re aived was about to bo exposed the railway rail-way officials and contractors who held them lu bondage consented to their iclcace Some have left there In various ships und steamers within the past two weeks and he remainder of them arrived here with the World representative Their evidence will be used against Liverpool Tack who is already under ndictment for kidnapping 4 |