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Show DOWNS DECLARES 5 MEXICANS TOOK PART IN KILLING YSLETA, Tex., Jan. 22. Douglas Downs, survivor of the attack by Mexican Mexi-can cattle rustlers in which his companion, com-panion, Bert Akers, was killed yesterday, yester-day, declared tonight that he had gone to .luarez late today and had seen Bernardo Ber-nardo Duran, the man who is said to have confessed the killing, and that riuran '.vas not the man who pursued him and Akers on the fatal chase after the first conversations at the Duran bouse. "They let me see only Bernardo Duran. Du-ran. saying that he was the man that confessed to having killed Bert," said Downs, "but I am convinced that ho is not the man who pursued us and who rode on Bert's horse and shot at me and finally killed Akers." Citizens met tonight and adopted a resolution directed to Congressman W. P. Smith of this district, asking that Carranza officials at .Juarez be requested re-quested to exhibit the bodies of the Duran brothers after their execution set for tomorrow, so that it may be definitely defi-nitely determiued whether either actually actu-ally was the man who killed Akers. The statement of Mr. Downs that Bernardo Dujan was not the man who chased him and Akers on horseback, coupled with his declaration that five men participated par-ticipated in the attack by the cattle thieves, aroused suspicions here that the real slaver had not been arrested. |