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Show mm see SAND1TSHMGE0 Mexican Generals Stage Grewsome Spectacle on Rio Grande Banks. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) SAN AXTOXIO, Texas, March 11. j With scores of spectators from the American side as invited guests, Mexican Mexi-can military officials hanged . eight Mexican outlaws on the banks of the Kio Grande near San Benito. Texas, late Monday afternoon. This information was brought to San Antonio today by j Captain S. L. Gill, formerly intelligence officer at Camp Travis. Captain Gill was one of the invited guests, but had to come to Sau Antonio on business and did not wait for the hanging. T'aptain Gill said this morning the bandits had been rounded up on the Mexican side by rurales under the command com-mand of Colonel Bernea, who is acting I under orders of General Ozuna. He said these two officers have announced that twenty-eight bandits have been officially of-ficially executed. In executing the eight Monday they decided to erect a scaffold on the Mexican side of the river, and the Americans were invited to watch the hanging from the American Ameri-can side. Nothing but the narrow stream was between the audience and the actors in the gruesome drama. According to Captain Gill, General Ozuna and Coluned Bernea 'of the Mexican Mexi-can army are thoroughly ridding the lower portion of the Mexican border of bandits. For a number of years that j section was infested with outlaws, who were chased from the American side by Texas rangers and soldiers. They hid on the Mexican side, and at every chance they raided on this side of the river. Some of them formerly lived on this side of the Rio Grande and were entirely familiar with the country. When General Ozuna took command of that district he started a campaign to rid Mexico of the bandits. Under him. Colonel Bernea took active charge of the forces in the field, and, with his famous rurales, he has succeeded in capturing cap-turing many of the men said to have been active in raiding. Officially twenty-eight have been executed. It is said that many more have mot "unofficial" "unoffi-cial" deaths. |