Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-02 | Page 1 | Mexican Bandits Murder American Engineer

MEXICAN BANDITS MURDER ENGINEER AMERICAN AMERICAN ENGINEER I f GAR WilKINS WilKINS' BODY DODi fOUND ONEL ON EL l COlli KILL Hilt Sheffield Instructed to toMake toMake toMake Make Urgent Representations ta at Mexico City j FEW BANDITS SLAIN I Majority of Kidnapers Kidnap rs Escape Es cape to Mountains WASHINGTON April 2 2 AP AP- AP I Instructions to Ambassador Sheffield fi field ld to make urgent representations senta to the Mexican government over the slaying by bandits of Edgar M. M I. I an American mining engineer were dispatched to Mexico City by the st state te department department de de' de- de today on receipt of of official official of- of tidal advices that Wilkins Wilkins' body h had d been found MEXICO CITY April 2 Edgar M. M I. I Wilkins the American near Guadalajara Sunday was killed by his captors twenty- twenty four hours later It Is le learned a aThe The slayers made no attempt to hide the evidence of ot their crime and the body was found foun lying on onEl onEl onEl El Colli Coil hill near Santa An Ana Ian lan The discovery was was made b byan by byan an of the Chapala Electric company of which Wilkins Y was chief en engineer ineer pr Wilkins a former resident of S Sa Savannah vannah Ga was captured Sunday while motorcycling with his 10 year-old year son near Guadalajara The kidnapers headed by Severiano Ca Canales Canales Ca- Ca nales demanded ransom and the son was sent to Guadalajara to obtain the money When news of the reached Mexico Ctt City tho the American n nem em m ade Ur ent n talon ta- ta lon r Mexico foreign office TROOPS The kidnapers hearing that federal federal federal fed fed- eral troops were seeking th them m an and apparently convinced that the ransom ransom ran ran- som would not bo forthcoming killed their captive They were overtaken by the federals federals federals fed fed- at Cerro Chine and s several veral were were killed The majority however however how how- ever ever escaped Wilkins who w wag s 9 55 had been beena a resident of Mexico for years and his hla wife was Mexican He had been twice before but was wag re released released re- re leased unharmed The murder of Wilkins se second ond one one of American citizens j 4 killed by y Mexican bandits In the thelast thela la lat last t six months Jacob Rosenthal a retired New York merchant was killed last September He wits was captured cap cap- Lured by bandits In the wild country country coun coun- tf try fort forty miles outside Mexico Mexico City The bandits demanded ran som Rosenthal was taken as he and his party which had been beer spending the end eek end at Cuernavaca Cuerna Cuerna- vaca were returning to Mexico r. r City B By a ruse federal troops tried to tc capture the outlaws and release th the prisoner and when this failed the bandits brutally murdered Rosen- Rosen thai thal Afterward the troops killed two of the the bandits as they fled the scene