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Show I MEXICAN OFFICERS ACCUSED OF ABUSE LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Dec. 2S. With hts body showine evidences of torture which he said had bcon inilicted by Mexican authorities H. T, Hawkins, son of a prominent British family and a graduate of Oxford university, was tinder tin-der tho care of police surgeons hero today, having been brought to this city from Calcxico, to face charges of forgery for-gery preferred bv local banks. Cuts and bruifes about his bod', he txid, -were evidences of punishment inflicted in-flicted when ho asserted his rights while in custody of the Mexican authorities. He accounted for tho absence of several tooth by stating that a Mexican chief of polico hit him in the mouth with tho butt of a revolver as he was being led through the streets of a small town. The Mexican authorities accused him of filibustering. |