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Show t Claim They Were Suspended in Air, Struck and Threatened Threaten-ed With Death. MEXICO CITY, June 29. Several i Indians, examined regarding their previous pre-vious testimony in tho caso of William I O. Jenkins, former American consular I agent, at Puebla, testified today that they were suspended in tho air, struck and threatened with death by shooting , unles they agreed to testify against ! Jenkins, according to a Puebla dispatch dis-patch o El Universal. Jenkins was . kidnaped by the bandit, Federlco Cor-' Cor-' dova, last fall, and later was charged with complicity in his own capture. The testimony is being heard by tho third ' criminal court of Puebla. Ig-naclo Ig-naclo Vasqucz, former socretary of thxs second ci'imlnal court, declared court papera were stolen to damage tho case against Jenkins, and the Judge was deposed when he was about to free the American. Tho bandit Cordova was cross-examined for four hours today, to-day, but his testimony was not disclosed. dis-closed. Interviewed in Arlco City tonight I on his arrival from Puebla, Cordova I said he had kidnaped Jenkins, but that tho latter was not an accomplice. The agents of the Carranxa government, govern-ment, Cordova asnerted, had mado attempts at-tempts to induce him to testify that tho kidnaping was tho result of a scheme between himBelf and Jenkins, but he had declined to mako such a statement. Any declarations purporting purport-ing to come from him accusing Jenkins Jen-kins of being implicated In his enp-ture, enp-ture, Cordova asserted, were fabrications. |