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Show SOLDIER KILLED BY THEMEXICANS Vera Cruz, Mexico. May 8 Private Parks, orderly for Lieutenant Colonel Elmore Taggart, who disappeared In-Side In-Side of Mexican lines esterday with two of Colonel Taggart's horses, was put to death by the Mexicans near Tejerla, according to a report received re-ceived here tonight This information, however, was not regarded as conclusive A Mexican I railroad man. the authority for the i report, said he was told by one of Maas's soldiers, with whom he had a talk in the vicinity of the alleged execution, that Parks had been killed He said also that the Mexican soldier told him that two night before, an other man, dressed like an American soldier, had been executed. Colonel Taggart went by train to j day as far as the break in the rail-j road near Tejerla to try to get infor-(nation infor-(nation concerning Parks He said he had heard the same story as that told bj the railroad man. Parks was reported early today at l Tejcria riding like mad through the I federal lines The horses were seized seiz-ed and loaded on a flat car of the Mexican railway for transportation to the headquarters of General Maas Colonel Taggart wirelessed Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Richardson, who is in charge of the refugee train at the gap. to investigate. in-vestigate. He also wirelessed Gen era I Maas to return the horses and release Parks. "Those horses are like children to me," said the colonel tonight. "I would give anvthing to get them hack." |