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Show AMERICANS LYNCH MEXICAN OUTLAWS Mexico Cltj Aug. 6 Seventeen Mexicans have paid with their lives for maltreating the daughters of Ma: thew Gourd an American farmer, near Tamplco last Monday. American farm era' participated in the exaction of the penalty, according to information, regarded re-garded as reliable, received here to-dav to-dav . The Americans, joined by Mexican land owners In the district of Atasca dor. near Tamplco. organized a po33? and rode into the hills In search of the band of outlaws which tied Gourd and robbed him and afterward of fered indignities to two daughters in Bighl of their helpless father The band was located and defeated In a fight and several of its members were captured The seventeen men killed by the posse included those slain in the fighting and those put to death afterward after-ward Some weeks ago a number of the Mexican land owners Joined with the Americans in the formation of a vip' lance committee, but this was the firs( time that the committee had taken the offensive against criminal bands It is reported that twenty-four worn" en of the Atascador colony have gone to Tamplco as a precautionary move The government here does not admit yet the truth of the attack upon Mr Gourd's daughters. |