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Show VERGARA TAKEN ON THE MEXICAN SIDE LAREDO, Tex . Feb. 'JG. Clcmente j i VersHia, the Texao ranchman, was assaulted as-saulted by Mexican federal soldiers on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande and Imprisoned at Hidalgo. February IS. then two days later he was hanged from a tree three miles from that city and the body left uncared for until two dayc ago, when t was secretly removed. Tills was established to the satisfaction of S. .T. Mill, brother. In-law of Vergara, who want to Hidalgo today with United ! States Consul Garrett to investigate the death of the American. They returned to Nuevo Laredo tonight. Federal soldier? at Hidalgo, they sajd, denied all knowl. edge of Vergara's 54eath and Captain Apolino Rodriguez, commander there, was particularly emphatic that Vergara and tho horses which the ranchman claimed had heon stolen from him had been sent to riedras Negras Recognized Horses. Hill, however, said he recognized the missing animals among the horses ridden by the federal troopers. It was established. Hill said, that Vergara Ver-gara was seized on the Mexican bank of tire river aud not on the island about which a question has arisen whether 11 is Mexlcun or American territory. Mrs. Vergara witnessed the assault on her husband. According lo Hill, Vergara had been told by federal soldiers that. Captain Rodriguez wanted to settle with him for seven stolen horses and. accompanied by his nephew, he crossed the river. The boy ran and hid in the brush, when the soldiers knocked his uncle unconscious and. with the distracted wife watching from the other bank, took him away to Hidalgo. Mrs. Vtergara visited hor husband in Jail the following day and dressed his wounds, H1U said. On Saturday he was Ui ken front prison, supposedly to be transferred to Piedras .NcgraH. Later the bodv wus seen hanging. Two dayr; ago the' body disappeared and a m-wly-niadc grave In thft Hidalgo cemetery was no-tlrr-d by several Moxlcans who since havt told the Nuevo Lare,do police. Dangerous to Search. Consul Garrett said tonight he was convinced con-vinced by the federals' attitude that It I would have been dangerous for him to search for the body In tho cemetery, IIo told Captain Hodrlguez thnl he would procuro ordera for the removal of tho body. That no mistake could have been iiih'Io In tho identity of tho man hanged Is assured, It Is said, by tho Identification Identifica-tion of tho body by half a dozen porsons. Vergara wait well known throughout that section. Conflicting details in the story of Captain Cap-tain Rodriguez aroused bitter discussion here tonight. It was learned that Rodriguez Rod-riguez had told Consul Blocker that Vergara Ver-gara had Joined the rebels. Rodriguez donlcd that ho ever had received any orders from the Piodras Nogras command, com-mand, Genoral Alvarez, who told American Amer-ican authorities Vergara would bo transferred trans-ferred thero for safety. The federal captain cap-tain was Insistent, however, that tin; missing man had boon sent to TMedrus Negras. |