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Show If sons I MY 1 (BAH SLAY AMERICANS, CHARGE ' Steamship Arrives With Bod- ies of Roney and Boles, the jj Latest Victims BLAME FOR MURDERS PLACED AT INQUIRY Stories of Terrible Cruelty Are ; Related at Probe of the Mexican Situation : ; i j HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 15. The oil m- steamship Trlnidadian arrived here M ' . carlv todav with the bodies o F. J. SSB 1 Rou'ev of Houston and Earl Boles of M ' ' Thoridalc, Tex., Americans killed re-, M ; , ccnliy in tho Tampico. Mexico, oil dis- Si' trTlvo bodies were accompanied by. m -PntS- Hecney. an oil contractor at lM ' Tamptco He declined to make any , 1 i Sement describing the finding of the ' 1 81 Ambcr of the crew, of the Trim- 1 ! dadiaS who asked that his name be :hJi J - Stl heid as he made frequent trips to WW$ Mexico assorted that invest gallons , K$V made by the consul at Tampico and;. Li She? Americans, established that the, 'lift men were killed by Mexican federal SI i Sldlcrs He asserted that a bullet e.v' 11 fneted from Boles' foot proved to be- SB! 2 fused only by federal troops in , jfl i that district. coM ; Women Give Evidence. . ?N ANTONIO, Tex.. Jan. lo. Aci- m : ( diUcnal accounts on the hardships en- Wi' dured bv American settlers in Mexico agj ; since Carranza came Into power wei e SI ' " ven the senate sub-committee invcs- H ; r gating the Mexican .sltuaUon toda H ' bv three women. Mrs. Mary S M I Mrs Willis and Mrs. Bailey residing j n widely separated regions of Mexico. WM ' old of murders and outrage. Mis. 9 I Wricht describing how she concealed W- her daughters for days in order to M keep them from the marauding Mexi- 9 I Ca?Gw Warner, the organizer of the noil Atascador colony, also was a witness. 'SI I His account of the vicissitudes of the .HI American farmers on. that property 1 was similar to that of G. B. Blalock, M I who testified yesterday about the devil dev-il 1 astation of the Blalock colony and ad-r1aB&. ad-r1aB&. joining property. $Mi Stories of Cruelty. ylM Stories of terrible cruelty, unredress-:M unredress-:M .t ed murders -and devastation of proper- ,' lies were given the senate sub-commit-fl tee investigating the Mcn lion todav by men in close touch v. ith , 11: conditions in Mexico. T. M. McBee. WM,. a cattle man from a border tojn. P9 James J. Britt, a lawyer from Tani-VM Tani-VM nlco, and George E. Blalock, once the iH : 1 head of what was the largest colony of morican farmers in Mexico, and 9 i who now is operating a small grocery store here, were the witnesses. The ! effect of their testimony was lo; .51 strengthen the claims of witnesses H , heard in Washington thai the inse-H inse-H curity of American life and property fM - in Mexico is growing greater. Britt, who reminded the committee H : that he is not employed by any oil M company, asserted that American life 1 WM was "worth more in Uic Argonne than il ' it is todav In the country about Tam-yM Tam-yM Pico." He entered the United States hiM i only two days ago. He is one of the : ' men who assisted in caring for the ijflf bodies of F. J. Roney and Earl Boles, uml who were killed in the oil fields De- cember 30. The three had dined to- lUS gether Christmas day. 'gmifx Blames Carranza Soldiers. ; Britt appeared confident that the $ men were killed by Carranza soldiers. ?M 5 ; "Thev were killed v.'ithin the Carrauza Mi' lines,"" he said, "and the bullets we( sfiM : took from their bodies were those used ggfl 1 by the government soldiers and not by fO the bandits. Moreover, Boles, after he fl ; " had been brought to the ground by a Km bullet in his ankle, had been attacked 1 1 from behind by a man with a machete. I The blade had been thrust far into his I i hodv, turned downward and then up I again. The rebels in that part of the I country do not carry machetes. Tho I , soldiers do-" Theory of Killing. I His theory that the killing was done I by soldiers was further supported by I ' tolling how the paymaster of one of fl . the oil companies, who resembled Ito- Bl ' nov, received permission about the II saino time the two had left to cany a II certain amount of money into the oil II - fields. Thin Information was trans- 1 1 niitled to the Carranzistas. Britt be- 1 1 lieves, nnd those who killed Roney and 1 1 Boles believed they were killing the II' ; paymastor. a I JL He told the committee the Ameri- 8 I cans stood guard over tho bodies un- I I til an autopsy could be hold. "We had HI one experience of neglecting that 1 1: i phase of such a case," he said, "when I I James Wallace was shot. I know for I l: ' a fact he was not a drinking man, and I li et the claim set up by the Mexicans I I was that he was drunk. And this is I I : what had happened. They had poured I I tequila into his mouth and over his II; f'tce afler he was dead in order that I I the odor might support their claim." . |
