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Show '"Ransom Paid Bandits; Jenkins Set Free I U. S. Consular Agent Is nl Reported on His Way J!H io Pueblo. ill CAPTORS ARE PAID M Mexican Government 1 1 Acts Promptly Upon . I Demand " I WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 William o. l;; Jenkins, the. American consular agent lai Pueblo, who was kidnaped October 1 19 oy Mexican bandits, war- released fl after payment of ransom the state de- I partment was auvisea lonay, Dy inn American embassy at Mexico City. The bandits who held Jenkin? had demanded 1150,000 in gold The me- - J I sage to the department said that Mai- t' thew E. Hanna, third secretary of the jjf embassy, who was sent to Pueblo, re- ki ported yesterday that he had received I a message from Jenkins sent from I w ithin the Mexican federal lines that ' the ransom had been paid and that he i, I was on his way to Pueblo. The dispatch did not make clear whether the .Mexican government t friends of Jenkins paid the ransom and an inquiry ps to this point 'MS been sent to Mexico City The ofti- ;al anniiur.r emeni f the release of I Jenkins added that the message from f the American embassy says that the ri I I third secretary of the embassy, Mr. IP H Matthew E. Hanna. who was sent to I Pueblo by the embassy, notified the 'embassy yesterday that Jenkins hnd sent him 'a message from within the ll Mexican federal lines thai tbe ransom ;r, been paid to the kidnapers an I II thai he w as on his Way to Pueblo The JP (j department is awaiting more detail T)v Mexican government Saturday advised the American embassy that 11 would omit no efforts to save Jenkins me. wm |