Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 1 | Mrs. Silliman Sends Message

On MRS. SILLIMAN SENDS MESSAGE Tells of Arrest of Husband and of Three Weeks Imprisonment. Washington, May 26. Normal con dltion are prevailing again in Monterey, Mon-terey, Consul General Hanna reported j toda tc the State department The railroad to Saltillo was to resume' carry. ng passengers today aud 'the consul reported his plan to go to that city Mrs John R Silliman. wife of the vice consul at Saltillo,! has learned of her husband s arrival In Mexico City through the state department de-partment and Consul General Hanna A message from Mrs Silliman re celved here today tells of the arrest of hef husband on May 12, his three weeks' imprisonment and departure for Mexico City. Mrs. Silliman ex pecU to leae Saltillo later with a party ot other American women and i a Mr Wheeler of the, British consul ate Vera Cruz, May 26. John R. Sllll-I Sllll-I man. American vice consul at Sal tillo, arrived here today from Mexico City. He declined to discuss his ex-perlences ex-perlences duriug his imprisonment until alter be had made his official report to W ashington. Mr Silliman intimated that the talcs of facing a firing squad and of other Indignities be was reported to have Buffered were much overdrawn. Will Report to Washington. He said he felt it was his duty to reporl fully at Washington before making public a detailed account of bis a i rest and his release through the activity of the. British vice consul con-sul at Saltillo. The trip to Mexico City from Sal tillo was interrupted several times by - Finnishes between small detachments detach-ments of constitutionalists and federal fed-eral garrlsous at points along the route. The train on which the consul traveled was preceded by a troop train which was fired on repeatedly aud which delayed by torn up sections sec-tions of tho track Mrs. Sillimau is still in Saltillo under un-der the protection erf the British con-I con-I sulate. Her husband apparently feels no anxiety regarding her safety.