| Show if CONDUCTOR GOOf r f HAVING AVIN FAIR TRIAL L 1 It Is Being Conducted Under the j Laws of the State of l And Not of Mexico t HIS IS NOT FEDERAL OFFENSE l i I I Government Is Aft After r 1 1 That mt of United State land and Is Not Centralized Mexico Ci City y Doc A 11 railroad conductor In prison at charged with complicity f ty In the robbery of a traIn of which 4 he le was In charge on the Con Cen Cont I t f railroad Is havIng a trial and t f his caso Is beIng e expedited as much tUI as tUII possible under MexIcan laws awe J The trial Is beIng conducted under the laws of the tho state of Jalisco with I whIch the tho department of Mexico t l h has no right to interfere AuthorIties of Jalisco hav been asked by tho Mexico department to use every effort to reach w n a verdict These are aro too tho facts fact as by gov t j officials today ot of Foreign Gain Gam 4 thea Iboa said nothIng In n the tho nature of 1 a criticism had reached the foreign office from irom the tho American government Wo Vo have been asked to give sive the tho status of the case he said and have havo done dono so and our statement ot of the tho facts ap appears rs to have been r satisfactory Mr Gamboa continued The political s system In Mexico II Is precisely the same as that In the Unit United 4 ed 1 States Our countr country Is composed of liberal and Independent states stat s which make theIr own laws The Tho state of 01 Jalisco h has S a ilL law that a person com an sImilar to that charged agaInst Mr rr Cook can be held In jail Jall six months pending the tho comple completion completion tion of his trIal The Tho trial of Cook Is proceeding wIth all possible rapidity Federal officials simply have to await the aeton of the Jalisco courts with which wog wo cannot interfere In Inn any n Wl way except to request as speedy a trial as possIble ThIs we have done clone Tho statement made by Mr Gambia Gamba agrees with the statement given out at the United States embassy Attorneys who have investigated the law under whIch Cook Is being held discovered that the tho law orl originally was framed to apply appl to trains of mule or 01 ox teams before the tho era of railroads 15 into Mexico Tho They were ware of often ton the tho prey of bandits and were sent out un under under der escort of armed guards In the char charge go of one IndIvidual This man was hold personally responsible for the safo conduct of the train |
