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Show PLOT AW II FOOD IT Mexican-German Plan to Retake Southwest Is ; Told on Stand. Iron Cross, Rifles and Sombreros Som-breros Lend Novel Air to Courtroom. f MOUNT CLEMEN'S. Mich.. June 9. I Followers of the trial of Henry Ford's (1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune, now entered upon its fifth week, today got what they have been waiting for, namely, the picturesque touch froiA the Mexican border. Tlie proceedings before Jurig-o J. c. Tucker introduced rangers, deputy sheriffs, sher-iffs, a conspiracy of empire which Involved In-volved t-be capture by Mexicans of the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona I and the southern part of California, sombreros, som-breros, embroidered riding boots, cattle ii rustlers, sudden and sanguinary raids by pjj Mexican bandits and a bit of German ' 4 propaganda in the form of one Gorman iron cross taken from a slain Mexican jj bandit, and three anuient Mauser rifles, j also of Teutonic origin, (j The story came mainly from Marcus V. Hines. now a customs official at Santa Maria, Texas, and Thomas S. May field, : of Pharr, Hidalgo county, Texas, rancher, contractor and land developer. ! Other witnesses were Thomas J. Alex- j rj andcr, postmaster, and keeper of the- gen- ! Vji eral store at Sebastian, Texas; Thomas i p, Bishop, former United States marshal j at San Antonio, Texas, and John R. Har-l Har-l old, an immigration inspector at Browns-vUle. Browns-vUle. Indifference Resented. Mayfield testified be took a copy of the conspiracy to retake ihe border states from a Mexican revolutionist whom he captured. He turned the . papers over to Bishop, who so testified, and they were in turn given over to Harold for translation. trans-lation. Harold identified the translations on the stand. The pian contemplated an invasion from Mexico and a simultaneous uprising of Mexican residents in the border states. Mr. Bishop appeared indignant at the nay the case was handled, and testified tli at he resigned as marshal because "they would not let me do my duty." On cross-examination. Attorney Alfred Lucking, Luck-ing, of counsel for Mr. Ford, in connection con-nection with the resignation, asked: "the federal authorities regarded it as a trivial occurrence, didn't they?" 3 "Yes. they did," replied the witness, with indignation in his voice. '. Raid Related. Mr. Hines, owner of one of the big sombreros, testified he first had personal knowledge of a Mexican outrage on United States soil in 1913, when he was a ranger, and a deputy sheriff was killed near Eagle Pass, and the sheriff taken captive. He paw many American refugees come out of Mexico, he said, also from lonely ranches. Into the cities, in fear of bandit raids. Witness was in the customs service when the raid was made on Sebastian, Texas, August 6, 1915, and joinedi a 1 posse, including some soldiers, which pursued pur-sued them to the north. Hines said that they came up with the i Mexicans at a place called Peterson's, 75 miles north of Brownsville. Several hou rs of d csul tory f 1 ring followed, he said, in which three -or four Americans j were wounded, and four Mexicans killed : and 14 wounded. The Mexicans finally 3 ( moved south, but Hines expressed the opinion that few of them ever got across the Rio Grande again. His further testimony tes-timony dealt with cattle rustling, which he said was incessant; burned railroad r j trestles, and signs of raids which he had - t without having witnessed the actual '0 i occurrences. , His testimony was not guiltless of blunt '. j and whole-hearted profanity in telling of one incident of the Sebastian raid, where t'ney fired two shots at a woman, badly wounding her. He said the leader was Antonio Rojas. and In mentioning the f ramo ho applied to that bandit what is known in Texas as a "fightin' name." Mayfleld's experiences were of a similar H nature. He brought up the rifles and the h Iron cross from Texas, and many dag-PL dag-PL ers' P'MtoIs' and the like, captured from r Mexicans. He said he was almost constantly con-stantly in the saddle In 1915-16. and wroke down 10 horses." |
