Show A ABUSED BY i NEW ORLEANS Dec 28 A A special dispatch to the lne Picayune from Irom Puerto Cortez Honduras says sas William Barber of Kentuck Kentucky and two other Americans were seized b by Honduran police and soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers thrown into jail and brutally lashed Afterward they were deported on the Honduran gunboat Tatumbla to Guatemalan territory and landed penniless penni penni- ross less In the forests According to an an affidavit m made c by Baber Bar Ba Barber Bar ber bel and corroborated by p witnesses the th dispatch says sas he was taken by police at Pu Puerto Cortez while walking along the street and ordered to go with two other Americans also in custody and bury a dead Honduran pauper Refusing to do as he was told Barber who was foreman of a bridge gang on tho the Honduras railroad was taken to jail jan surrounded by soldiers with fixed bayonets bayonets bayonets bayo bayo- nets beaten over the tho head with clubs and lashed with whips the other two Americans being treated likewise aric arid and the three were then taken to the Tatumbla Ta- Ta and transported to Guatemalan territory and set down In a wood without without without with with- out food or money Barber returned according to the dispatch dis dis- dis- dis patch to Honduras and was arrested on ona ona ona a charge of refusing to bury the dead and kept in jail twenty-five twenty days being finally released through the efforts ol of friends The names of the other two Americans are not given |