Show SHOT BY SMUGGLERS c. c Customs Cleric for rm Santo Domingo 4 r I ls I I s it n I in I ug r h IC kJ f New York Mar 1 David it Da David F. F Morris Morris Mor Mor- ri ris ilmo ho until recently was wa deputy receiver of customs In ium San Sn Domingo on out time the tl frontier arrived re rec recently recently re- re c nt on nn the Clyde liner hoot New York Ils His half years year's eXI experience In the bad bac badlands lands of San Sn Domingo has cost hIm him tearl dearly and anI a as he told the lie thrilling stor story of or hl his imis fight with wih a dozen brigands brigands bri bri- gands In th the strewn stone and cac cac- covered district known as os E gl Jesu in plain and forcible language he needed no other othel corroboration o of iris his statements than his sears scars and amid his stiffened arm aria am Thc They speak eloquently enough the anguish he suffered Commissioned by President Morales Morales Mor Mor- or- or ales n as administrator of the tIme district of ot Tierra Nuova Xue it was my may dut duty to attend to the collection o of duties and at the time same time Into prevent pre smuggling between San Domingo and Mr- Mr 11 Morris lolls said hl On O tober 18 iS last JaM 1 I was with a native guile guide ulde in El m Jesu time the center of what is properly called callei caled time the thE bad lands lairds of oC the island I had been making some sketches which were intended to b be Incorporated into maps later latel on bout About S p. p m. m I was as about to remount m my amy mule when a volley voley of shots hols rang out cult and I was struck by iy two rifle bullets One of oC them shattered m my may loft left lef forearm and the other bored lored Its IM way through h m my left side As soon as a I partially recovered reco ered I grasped m my re ol revolver and HI look looked about abou for m my mn assailants but could see no ito 0 one Ii 0 I r bandaged m my wounds with whim two handkerchiefs and anc la lay hay nil ni day and night suffering intensely Saw a alis Ilk His lis Assailants lant Short Shortly after daybreak a breal I saw w twelve horsemen rifles carrying caim Remington ton 1 Five Ie of them halted not far tn- tn from rue me and from fron their conversation cnn elston I gathered gath gath- ered red that the they lucy were wele Implicated in lii the attack upon me mae On One o of them said ald The Th Americans American's corpse must be I somewhere near here lucre J Another said sid Are you ou sure lie he is dead lead and the tw twI I first on one replied Certainly I shot him through h the heart hearl Another re remarked remarked re- re marked Possibly and shrugged his shoulders shoulder One suggested a search to get act m my re olver but bu another said aid You Yuu might find the hue revolver sooner shoner than bait you OU I. I like The They finally went away I lay Jay there lucre for Cor three days and amid three nl nights hl and 1 my mm agony ngon seemed to constantly I Increase e. e At t about C a a. a m m. on omm the time 1 J hardly conscious conscious left lef tim m my hiding place In search of oC water After man many disappointments I found perhaps halt half halfa haIrn a n pint of muddy water In hum an allm animal track I r drank er e every drop o of I it I got back to my IY hiding place and on that morning saw SIW a troop of about 30 I did not hot know whether men amen the they th were wele friends or om foes hut but I my suffering was so o Intense that I called out at all al hazard Hello Helo It I was wa th time the commandant com corn mandant with wih a searching purt party Saves Sines a n I Ills His ls Lif 1111 Thc They gave aye me 10 goats' goats milk mik and amid rum and then lien I rode rote twelve t o miles mies on ott a mule mull to a house In ium Time Tho next morning I was wa carried In hum a n hammock ham ham- mock to erba where SU Surgeon eon Honor Homier Honorof or of the time U. U S. S H S S. Scorpion treated me ate mennel nail saved saed my I life As soon as I got gotbetter got gotbeter better beter I r resigned front from the service ser and from trout here hen I 1 ant am going goin to Washing Washing- I ton ion 0 um Mr li- li r. r Morris 1 is an time old newspaper newspaperman mann man In who vho worked principally on Out 01 tho the Pacific slope W was war cOIT correspondent with wih the time troops In lit the time field In the lIme Philippines and amid was isas for COI oi a time editor of oC if the time Manila American |