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Show REVENGE ACTUATED MURDER OF HARVEY , Brother of De.id Bandit Sworo To ; Kill Ten Mormons In Requital. j Tho murder rf .1. 1). llnrvey, tho .Mormon colwi' t nt Colonla Dlas, 1 Moxlco, was ll'f result of a vow made j uy Ceclllo G.mznlos, brother ot the Mexican bnntiit killed In an attack upon the chi.n settlement, thnt ho would kill ton Mormons In revenue, '.ccordliiK to k letter just received from Mrs. Violet 11. Johnson, n mem- ber of tho colony. I Mrs. Jihuson's lotter, describing graphically recent troubles there, Is ns fotlowB: Colonla Diu. Mexico, May 3, A . fight with b.r its took place in this ! colony hint n - it, May 2, when they mndo an nttnc . upon tho store. The citizens were oroughly aroused and. when they aiivinptcd to tnko several hundred dolt. its' worth of merchandise, merchan-dise, our men opened fire upon them. Uno mule loud of bales ot cloth, men's clothes, rlbboim, laces and shoes was abandoned by them In tliolr flight. Ono bandit was found dend in the street nnd searching parties nro hunt-ug hunt-ug tho thickets for others. Nono of the Mormons was Injured. At 1 o'clock this morning 12. V. Itoumoy nnd Frank Whiting went across tho river to I. a Asceuslon to inform tho authorities of what had taken place. Several officers returned with them to tnko charge ot affairs. During tho fight n shot was fired by ono of tho fleeing party into tlio houso of Samuel Donaldson nnd struck n bedstead n fow Inches from MIbb Nellie Nel-lie Jorgensen's bend. A week ago n great many peoplo , from here, Including tho graduating : I class of tho eighth grade, mndo pro- partitions to go to Colonla Juarez for tho commencement exercises of Juarez Jua-rez stako academy, but a messenger enmo In warning all persons to keep off tho road, especially women and girls, nnd urging nil persons on tho outskirts of town to move In. A short tlmo ago a fight occurred near tho Mormon colony of Morales Sonora, when Marion Nagllo, leading tho Mexican citizens, repulsed n large hand of murderers, killing twenty oi them. Tho leader of tho hand had his leg so badly shattered thnt It hni slnco been nmputnted. Mr, Nagllo nnd bis family linvo since been forced to r-ave tho country. Clnrcuco Moon, boh of tlio late John Moon, a young man employed with an American mining min-ing company near I'arral, has dlscp-puarcd dlscp-puarcd and has not been heard from for ioveral months. All efforts to 'o-cato 'o-cato him havo been vain. " This may bo tho hiBt mail sent out, ns it Is declared all postofflccs will booh bo closed. Wo nro keeping two men on the American border nt a telegraph Btatlon to act ns carrleis should communication bo cut off.""The stories of United States Intervention Bcem to Intensify tho anti-American spirit among tho natives. Mrs. Margaret Keelor Baron is sick in nn 121 I'nso hospital. Sho has Just undergone nn operation nnd It Is feared fear-ed she cannot survive. In a letter dated three 'days later, Mrs. Johnson describes tho , ovcnls thnt followed tho killing ot tho bnndit, ns follows: Tlio body of tho dead bandit picked up In tho street of the colony, nf'.or being taken to ha Ascension, was Identified by Ceclllo Gonzalos ns his brother. Gonzalos mndo a vow that ho would 1:111 ten Mormons In revenge. Ho and his family havo lived In and been employed by tho people of ihe colony. Saturday morning ho tinned his horses Into James D. Hnrvey'b wheat field nnd, when Mr. Hurvsy v.cnt to his house to protest, ho shor Harvey twice in the back and, whoa ho fell dead, shot him again In t,!e forehead, He then took Mr. Ilnrvey'a own shovel, which ho cnrrlcd, ana mutilated tho body In a slininofu) manner. Tho deed wna witnessed by three of Ilnrvoy's sons who, being unarmed, wero powerless to lntcrfe.ro. One or tho boys brought word to town unci oovcral oftho colonists started a man hunt. Tho Moxlcnns showed a very ugly spirit and wo nro llablo to have n race war. Some of our men wont tc La Ascension nnd demanded thnt tho officers capturo or help capture tho murderer, who was trailed to that town, Tho officers, however, gao evasive answers. Later In tho day the officers wont to view tho body of tho murdered man but when thoy found nn tinned force there they wero very polite. They took tho Harvey boys to La Ascenblon presumably to get their statements, but we found later their intentions wero to put tho littlo chaps In Jail. Tho boys, however, wero rescued by Alfrod Uoyd and by Junn Cnrryone, a Moxlcan liberal officer from Pnlomas, who brought them homo In Uoyd's motor mo-tor car. Carryono was educated In the colony schools. Mr. Harvey will ho burled todny and feeling Is intense. Ho wns ono . - of tho nioBt respected men In this section. Ho has a largo family and was formerly a resident of Moroni, Utah. Ho was born and raised In Salt Lake, whero a brother and sister now live. An officer from Casas Qrandas has Just arrived In town, accompanied by Junius Ilomncy, president ot tho Jua rcz stake, to look Into tho matter, but there Is no Justlco In tho Moxlcan courts for nn American This Is the ninUi Mormon to bo brutally murder-rd murder-rd and In no enso havo tho murderers teen brought to Justice. ! . |
