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Show r jELflTE STORY OF !!1ITJ pi American Woman 5t3rved to Death, Reports t0 Washington Say. ASHIVGTOX, AuK. 3.-A story of f,o Americans in Mexico, in-tho in-tho death from starvation of li American woman, reached Lhington today through unofficial els The cruelties, inoludinc; an by bandits, some of whom are Id to have been Carr.mzistas, in,- U n-,eiit, indignities and later con-I con-I P f,r of property, were pcrpetrat-lta pcrpetrat-lta 'is said, upon Dr. and Mrs. Charles 4C5 Washington and the. lat-mother, lat-mother, Mrs. W. IT. Kennghl, fVa'hinKton. Mrs. Kenrifxht td of Ration while held a pns- bv the bandits. n- Stureis, an American dentist and ,.,'r of a coffee plantation in Me.x-' Me.x-' Sordine to information received i went to Mexico twenty years ' ' Hi, wife and her mother joined I lat r In 1919, it said, their Stat on was raided by Cnrranzistas "later in the same year by bandit, bv General Ratael ( ally Ma- f General Mayor, took the three m'.ricans prisoner, it is said, and S Dr Sturgis and Mrs. Kenright " os apes. sei.Ofrs. Sturfiis to Mex-' Mex-' City with messages to a Zapatista Lt While beinR held prisoner, Mrs. tarsia said her mother died from star- Not' until last February, according 1'thc story reaching Washington, were I stureis and his wife released. They turned to their plantation, although i,e dentist was partially paralyzed, hrnio to the privations they had un-neme, un-neme, and later tho American consul E Salina Cruz furnished them with .Ends to return to the United States. &lry arrived several days ago at INew Weans and now are en route to bt. icuis. |