| Show ALBERS DEALT WITH UNJUSTLY American Traveler Says Accused Man Is In the Right It has been decided that a warship shall be sent to one of the Costa Rican poses to convey American Minister Merry northward to the nearest point on the coast of Nicaragua or Honduras Hon-duras to the place where William S Alburn an American citizen and his brother arc confined pending a trial on the charge of resisting legal process pro-cess and of Insulting the president ot Nicaragua T > o gunboat Princeton now at Panama Is the nearest warship to Ocotal In the province of Segovia where Albers Is Imprisoned But the lastnamed town Is seventy miles inland In-land over a rough mountain range from the const and the trail Is not passable by any vehicle Amapala on the gulf of Fonseca on the southern bourdary of Honduras appears to be the nearest port to Ocotal The Port LImon company whose agent Albers was has sent a lawyer from Philadelphia Philadel-phia to Ocotal to assist In his defense Cause of the Trouble An American who has been travelIng travel-Ing In Central America for the past few months engaged In scientific work has written a detailed account of the Albers case to friends In Baltimore which has reached here He reports as follows Tho Union company of which William Wil-liam S Albers Is the manager Is located lo-cated At Jalapa Segovia near the border of Honduras This corporation Is engaged In gold and silver mining and In raising wheat anll tobacco and has made Investments In good faith In March 1905 a company of armed men alleging that they were sent by tho government tobacco syndicate syn-dicate demanded of Albers that he permit them to outer and curry away his stock of tobacco under seizure I Albers replied that he had no contraband con-traband tobacco that he obeyed the law that he paid the government In full that he held regular official re celpti for all tobacco In his stores He furthermore said that the first man who tried to enter his door would be shot but that he would permit the leader to Inspect the tobacco In order that his assertions might he proved This was done and no contraband tobacco to-bacco was found Permits Are Refused Following the search of tho Limon companys premises the executive of Managua the capital of Nicaragua Issued a decree ordering that any one holding tobacco In stock should obtain a permit and that should he fall to do this hi tobacco would be confiscated confis-cated whereupon several Americans holding tobacco applied for the permits per-mits and were refused them These American holders thereupon I there-upon arranged to sell their tobacco Ito I-to tho syndicate with the exception of Albers But the treatment received from Albers who had In his place American employes who could have enforced his threats If necessary caused the syndicate managers to misrepresent mis-represent and exaggerate the actions of Albcrs when they reported it to the president II File Charges Against Them I As a result charges of resistance to authority and violent abuse of the i executive which Is a serious offense In many LatinAmerican countries were made at the court of the district situated at Ocotal Judicial warrants for arrests were Issued and both Albers and his brother broth-er were taken Into custody |
