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Show TEN MEXICANS SLAIN' IN HUNT FORjANDITS Flffcsen Hundred Cavalrymen and Infantry In-fantry and Numerous Posies of ,- Texans on the Trail Brownsville, Texas, Oct. 19. Ten Mexicans wero killed by posses today to-day becauso of their alleged complicity complic-ity in last night's wrecking of a St. Louis, nrownBVllleand Mexico Passenger Pas-senger train and tho slaying of throe Americans and tho wounding of four others. Peaco officers said tonight they had clues to other Mexicans con. nected with tho robbery. Tho first Mexican killed wns an un-Identified un-Identified young man, n passenger on tho wrecked train, who was accused of revealing tho hiding place of Dr. F. S. McCain, doputy Btato health offlcor here, who took rcfugo In tho lavatory of tho car when tho bandits began firing. Sheriff W. T. Vnnn of Brownsville denied reports of this Moxlcan's death, but tonight it do-volopcd do-volopcd that posses killed tho man after tho sheriff 'left tho scene of tho wreck. This' Moxlcan himself was threatened by the train robbers becauso of his unusually fair complexion, com-plexion, but wns not molested after ho told them whoro two of tho grin-goes grin-goes whom they woro hunting had hidden. Details Are Vague Only tho bare facts of tho killing of other Mexicans today wore obtainable, ob-tainable, as tho posses wero careful not to glvo out details. Tho second Moxlcan killed was alleged to bo a partner of tho young man on tho train. Tho vaguo meaning of the word partner wns not made clear. Four Mexicans wero hanged to trees at various points and four others wero shot. Tho most rellablo Information indl-cated indl-cated that theso shootings wero on or very near tho banks of the Rio Grando, whero the closest watch for Mexicans was maintained for a distance dis-tance of 100 miles up and down tho river. United States cavalrymen for oov-en oov-en miles chased n young Moxlcan who appeared In tho Los Indlos district dis-trict today, about thirty miles up tho river from the place of tho robbery. Ho was brought to Fort Brown here, whore nrmy offlcors questioned him closely. They said that his stories wero conflicting, but that he cavo no Information to connect him with last night's robbery. Finally the offlcors offlc-ors having no' authority to hold prisoners, pris-oners, turned .this Mexican over to tho civil authorities. |
