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Show IMS' IT1 IN 1TB BOX Texas Woman Whose Husband Hus-band and Son Were Slain Tells Story. Appears in Ford Libel Suit Hearing Against Chicago Chi-cago Paper. MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich., June fi. Mrs. Nellie F. Austin of Sebastian, Texas, whose husband and son were killed by Mexican raiders on their ranch, thirty muVs north of the Rio Grande, August 6, 1915, testified today for the defendant in the libel suit of Henry Ford against the Chicago Daily Tribune. Her testimony and that of V. L. Conrad Con-rad and Roscoe H. Smith, followed the ruling of Judge J. C. Tucker that the defendant de-fendant might introduce testimony to f show actual conditions along tha Mexican border, leaving it incumbent upon the d-f: neurit to show that the writer of the alleged libelous editorial headed, "Ford is an Anarchist," had such knowledge- In a general way at the time he wrote- tho editorial. The ruling did not como as a surprise, (Continued on page 13. column 4.) IH MESS m (Continued from Pago Ono.) for, durli jt the four week a hincc the eimo opened iho court ropeatodly announced that It was uiMpo:-cd to allow the wldcnt posnlbld latitude to the hearing. rMnct evidence for the plaintiff wan cone 1 1 a led In the forenoon. A deposition by Jlrs. Klirior M'dill jUter:ion. one ul the owners of the Tribune, waa rulyd out. Deposition Ruled Out. It related to her ocquuintnnco with Count von Bernstorff in Washington, an. m-'iuaitifnncH which Mrn 1'atteTnon do-pofcod do-pofcod Abo broke off fifteen months before be-fore Iho United Htntes entered (he war af.aliiKt (U rmuny. On thia point Judge Tucker sn id ; "It doert not strike nio her acquaintance with Yen Berr.Morif would cut any iiKUie In (ho can unions followed by mine ov.srt net or some, conspiracy, or Foineihlng of that kind was connocied with this case., and I do not undernUiiid that. Mere acquaintanceship ac-quaintanceship with somebody, even If he wmh ati enemy, outfit not lo prejtidico tlio cn.e." Com. sol lor Mr. Koid Hoceptcd Hi rulinrr. Mrs. Austin tola her trnglc Htory In a low but clear voice, in which there was :l quavering note ddiutinR; thf otfort Hhe waq malting nt self-conuol. She said she was lorn In Wnnorit fifty-elifht years ajro, and went with her husband and one son, Chailea, to .Sobaslia.11 nino ycura a&o. Tells Tragic Story. Mr. f-'mlt tr :d iniony perved na a preface (o that of Mis. Austin. Ho waa it KehawMan, a mile nnd a quarter from tho Austin ranch, working" no a corn cutter cut-ter with Mr. Austin nnd the latter's Ron, when a land of Mexican raiders appeared. They rn-hbed the general store, nnd a detachment de-tachment of them rode awuy, taking the two Austins with them In a cart. Mra. Austin told of her terror when the detachment, numbering flvo men, entered her house, and of the efforts of her husband hus-band and son to reassure her. Tho ban-ciis ban-ciis took a shotgun and a rifle and somH ammunition, and then rode away, with Mr. Austin nnd his son still in the cart. "1 must have bcomo unconscious, and when I came to the do was licking my face," said the witness. "When I could muster the ttrength I followed and found the bodies of my son and my husband. They were dend murdered." Troops Miles Away. Smith's testimony rhowed that he telephoned tele-phoned to near-by villages giving notice of the raid on Sf bastian. Tho nearost troops, he said, were twelve mlle awav. Two of the band which killed the Austins, Aus-tins, ho said, wore afterwards captured ard hancred. Mr. onrnd Identified! himself as a civil engineer of .Brownsville. Ho produced pro-duced a detail map of tho Brownsville district, and identified various spots where he said there had been serious raids attended at-tended by bloodshed. Adjournment was taken to Monday. |