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Show AMERICANS WERE ORDERED KILLED Evidence Found on a Mexican Judge of an International Outrage. San Diego. Cal. Feb. 4 Allegation Allega-tion was made today by the authori- I ties of Imperial county that papers were found on Mesa de Salinas, formerly for-merly jude of the first instance in Mexicali. Mex , which showed that he had ordered the execution of the ' three American citizens who were I shot there January 1 of this year. j thus explaining the killing of M Sanchez and F. Valfet and the wounding wound-ing of A. Flores, who was left for dead and crawled across the border, bringing word of the alleged outrage to the American immigration oft leer on this side of the line. According to the county officials, a letter was found in Salina s possession posses-sion written In Spanish, and cipher reports to President Huerta at the City of Mexico, give the details of the "execution'' of two American citizens and the escape of the third "on the banks of the river near Mexicali." Mex-icali." the report is said to read, "The officers completed their duty ! the only mistake being made that they did not make sure all three men j were dead " Salinas and A. M Pencia. formerly I Mexican customs officer at Mexicali. I were arrested last week for stealing ; some papers on the American side of the line. These papers, it is said, proved to be the records of the execution, execu-tion, which had been secured by an- I other Mexican. |