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Show MEXICAN OUTLAWS COMMIT OUTRAGES Sen. Fall of New Mexico Recites Re-cites a Few of the Terrible Ter-rible Atrocities. Washington, Jan 16. Senator Albert Al-bert B. Fall of New Mexico tonight detailed a few outrages of which Americans Am-ericans in Mexico have been victims, further examples of which he plans to give to the senate after tho administrations, adminis-trations, report has been submitted in response to bis resolution. Senator Fall said: "During the Madero administration 300 Chinamen were murdered In Aguas Calientes,, near Torreon. The Chineso government demanded $1,-050,000" $1,-050,000" indemnity. It was allowed. "Four Germans were murdered at Pachuca. Germany demanded and received re-ceived for theso four murders $100,-000. $100,-000. "An American citizen named Hayes was murdered by a Mexican named Castro. The circumstances were brought to my attention and I addressed the then secretary of state Mr. Bryan, demanding that the murderer mur-derer be punished Mr. Bryan replied re-plied that he had immediately wired our consul at Chihuahua to request the Mexican authorities to take action. ac-tion. After a week again addressed Mr. Bryan upon the subject. Ho replied re-plied that -the murderer had not yet been apprehended. "I replied to this communication substantially as follows: "Castro Is walking about the streets of Juarez, the admitted murderer of Hayes. I now point him out to you. Ho la within five minutes of the heart of El Paso and within ten minutes' min-utes' street car rldo of Fort BIIbs, where we have 2500 and 6000 United States troops.' "Actually this murderer was within rifle shot of our soldiers along the border. I asked tho secretary of state what he was going to do. "To this request for information Mr. Bryan in the state department telegraphed tele-graphed to me in the senate building that he had instantly wired the American Amer-ican consul at Juarez demanding tho arrest and punishment of Castro. Subsequently Sub-sequently he sent me a second telegram tele-gram anouncing that Castro had been arrested and that he had demanded that a representative of tho United States be present to prosecute him "That was the ond of It, so far as the state department was concerned The fact was that no representative of the United States was present at the trial of Castro, and the result of the trial was a fine imposed upon the murderer of 20 pesos ($10) Whether Castro paid the fine or not I don't know, but if it was paid it was paid in depreciated currency. "There wns a naturalized American-German American-German citizen who had a dairy farm In Durango. With him were two old, decriplt men and an old Indian woman. wom-an. Bandits attacked his rnnch and finally set fire to it He escaped through a back window and made his war into the barn The three servants serv-ants were captured. Eventually the bandits set fire to the barn and the owner again made good his escape by a back door to a place upon the hillside hill-side he had prepared for just such an emergency a hole out In the rock where he had guns and ammunition stored. "The Mexicans at daybreak stood tho two old men up against a wall and shot them. This so angered the American that he gave away his position posi-tion and opened firo upon the bandits, ban-dits, who in the meantime had let the woman go. Kills Thirty-seven Bandits. "The bandits numbered about 300. All day and all night they tried to get up the hillside to his redoubt He was almost mad with thirst . But late in the night the old Indian got to him with water she had carried as she crept on her hands and knees back over to him with food and he managed man-aged to hold out all the next day. That night he escaped over the mountains. moun-tains. Ho made his way finally over more than 150 miles of mountainous country to the railways. "He had counted thlrtv-seen bandits ban-dits that had fallen under his rifle fire and told the authorities of it Then he started for "Mexico City after telegraphing the American embassador embassa-dor there. On his arrival in the capital capi-tal ho was arrested as he left the train and started off under an armed guard for the jail. As he passed a German store he saw the proprietor standing In front of it and shouted to him " 'I am a German. They are taking mo to prison. Help me.' "After he had been- in prison a few hours an attache of the American embassy arrived and listened to his story. The attache explained he was sorry but inasmuch as court-martial proceedings wore about to be instituted institu-ted against him, the American embassy em-bassy was powerless. "The next day the court-martial was begun. In the midst of tho proceed-ins proceed-ins Into the courtroom came an attache of the German embassy. This gentleman Informed the court that the defendant was a German citizen, that the proceedings were absolutely Illegal and must stop forthwith. Then he took the man who had sworn allegiance al-legiance to the United States by the arm and beforo the Mexican officials could say anything, walked him out of the room. "That man was kept hidden in the Gorman embassy for several weeks, i until the opportunity presented itself j for smuggling him out of the countrv Thoro was a little co-operative i I i community of about 300 men, 300 women and 1200 children at Dublan, i Most of the adults' were Mormons but many were not. All were Americans. Ij This was four years ago. i "One morning the little town awoke to find tho Mexicans surrounding them with machine guns planted at : each end of the main street. What followed I obtained in an affidavit from P. H. Carlln of Michigan, ono . of the ranchers there. T "The Mexicans were bent on loot- & Ing the town. Resistance was use- I less. Evacuation of their homes was : their only chance, so off went tho community, leaving behind everything I they owned in the world. Most of them managed to reach the railway and get to the border in trains. But j 100 had bad luck. They wero mostly women and children on foot and un- I able to keep up with the others. The j result was that they never reached I' the railway, but had to foot it 15G j miles to the border, through deserts and over mountains, followed most of - the 'way by these drunken Mexicans, who kept up desultory firing on them r "They report the bringing Into El Paso of the 'body of Villa's former i aide, Rodriguez to be shown to the ! populace by way of proof that the ! Carranzlstas aro genuinely bent on f avenging the murder of the seventeen l. Americans last Monday. As a matter L of fact, Rodriguez was not within 195 miles of Santa Ysabel last Monday ; nor has he been for weeks But the ? man holds the position of jefe d'armas (chief of arms) of the Galean district I which embraces Juare., Guzman, Casas Grandes, Pearson, Madera and I Santa Ysabel tho man Carranza I must by lav employ to capture the ; real murders is none, other than Manuel Gutierrez. And Manuel Gu- t tierrez was scccond in command to Castillo, who engineered the Cumbro ' tunnel horror " ! |