Show SATTL BOYS ROYS EXPERIENCE PRINC WITH ARMY ARi ot OF ESTRADA STA Saved From Death as Spy by an American merican PhY Physician cian SEATTLE Wash Vash July Jul 20 ClIon Clifford Clifford Sands a former Seattle high school youth and mc erstwhile bri brigadier adier general in E Estradas Estrada's traca 5 army t told ld somo oma of his experiences in In tho the Nicaraguan o. o insurrection upon his his' arrival in Seattle on ona ona ona a visit with ih relatives last Jat night j mind Sands escaped being shot by bya a firing squad of the tho Madriz army by bythe bythe bytho the tho chanco aid of Dr Clarence Burg Burg- ur beim of Houston Tex who refused to toive give ive medical attention to the Madriz officers unless Sands San s was paroled I was wM captured at Pr on the tho coast coas Tune Tunc 18 two days after J I had made 11 10 an attempt to blow up tip tho Nicaraguan gunboat Venus said Sands I was charged with ith being a dynamiter and a spy Of course couso tho trial was a farce farce- fare and I was sentenced to be he shot hot but hut Dr Dur intervened and I was paroled Sands tried to d the tho dynamite gunboat gun guji- guji I boat Loat Venus by paddling out to her ber in ina in ina a canoe as she sho lay off Bluefields bluff They saw me mc he said and Hand sank the canoe with a machine macno gun gone I escaped es Cs without a scratch and swam swain ashore With seven men Sands was sent two days days afterward to to a town tow be below ow Bluefields The gunboats Venus and Jacinta came camo down shelled tho the town landed marines an and captured Sands and two of his men Two days das after this capture he lie said they took mo me out and made me watch them shoot my two men they had captured It I was to impress mo me with ith my coming fate They blindfolded them stood a file of f soldiers oft off oc offa a few paces and shot thor thorn |