Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-24 | Page 5 | Mexican Confesses to Organized Raids

mm chesses TO OfflUNIZED HMDS SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 24 The organized and authorized charac ter of tho border raido was further indicated in-dicated in an attested confession of a Mexican prison taken in 1915 and submitted sub-mitted today to the senato sub-committee investigating the Mexican situation. sit-uation. It was incorporated in, a report re-port of Captain A. V. B. Anderson, then commanding Troop A, 12th cavalry. cav-alry. The prisoner described the actions of his organization toward Norrls, Hidalgo Hi-dalgo county, as more of a regular organized unit commanded by a maor of the Carranza army. He said that after the expedition had arrived at a point some distance north of the Rio Grande. The major read the orders for the attack and assured them they had 1 been issued in accordance with President Presi-dent Carranza's instructions. American Soldier Mutilated. Similar testimony was given by I Thomas Mayfield, a former Texas', rnnger who submitted an affidavit by . Guadalupe Cuellar that Carranza. leaders had given orders for partici-j pation In one of the raids. He de- scribed the mutilation of one American , soldier by soldiers from the Carranza garrison. They cut off the ears of the soldier and carried them back to the garrison as souvenirs. Tho statement was attested by Captain Frank B. Mc- Coy, now brigadier general. John L. Klelber, a district attorney of the border, gave a description of the attack on a train nonr Brownsville. Browns-ville. Texas, which included another instance of the immunity German nationality na-tionality gave. He was a pnssenger On the train. On the same car wore two who claimed to be Germans. They were not molested. Were Detachment of Mexican Army Klelber's testimony was corroborative corrobora-tive of that of others which tended to indicate the raiders were in reality a detachment of the Mexican army. Five Americans were shot on that occasion, tho leaders of lhe raiding party being Ancceto PIsnno and Luis de la Rosa. It also was indicated by the "witness thai the Mexicans on the American side of the border who have been killed or injured during the period of the raids, have been victims of their own countrymen's activities rather than of any deliberate attempt of Americans to injure them.