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Show BANDITS KILL A BRITISH SUBJECT General Manager of Oil Com-pany Com-pany in Mexico Is Brutally Murdered. GERMAN INFLUENCE Mexican Farmer and Wife I Slain and Little Girls' Hands Cut Off. GALVESTON. Texas. March 30. W. H. T. Buckinpham, general manaper of the Apulia Oil company on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and his cashier, named Bannerman, were killed bv ban-1 ban-1 dits at Nanchital on March 9, according accord-ing to Information broupht here bv passenpers arriving from Mexico on a tank steamship Both men were British Brit-ish subjects. After Buckinpham had been killed his body was hacked I pieces. These passenpers also report that a reign of terror has prevailed for I eral weeks in the oil fields near Min-atitlan. Min-atitlan. in the state of Vera Cruz, and declared it to be the result of German influence The oil fields lie between territory occupied by Carranza troops on one side and the forces of Zapata on the other Buckingham and Bannerman were killed following a demand by the bnn-dlts bnn-dlts for $1500 and their discovery that the safe contained only $1300. Buckinpham Buck-inpham had been in Mexico for twenty-six twenty-six years. The next day, says the report, the I I bandits went up the river a few miles and killed a Mexican farmer, his wife and father and cut off the hands of the farmer's two little girls. Operations in the oil camps have ceased since March S and it is be-lieved be-lieved there is little prospect for resumption. re-sumption. The men who brought the story to Galveston said their friends I in Mexico would be killed if their names were revealed. |