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Show CiMES , TO JEATH But Saved by the Intervention Inter-vention of a Doctor Seattle, Wash.. July 20. Clifford Sands, a former Seattle high school you'll and erstwhile brigadier general in Estrada's army, told some of his experiences in the Nlcaraguau Insurrection Insur-rection upon his arrival in Seattle on a visit with relatives last night. Young Sanda escaped being shot by a flrlnc squad of the Madrlz army by the chance aid of Dr. Clarence Rnrghelru of Houston. Texas, who re- fused to give medical attention to the Madrlz officers unless Sands was par- oled. "I was captured at Prinz Apnlca, on tho coast, June IS. two days alter I had made an attempt to blow up the Nlcaraguau gunboat Venus," said . Sands. "I was charged with being a ' I dynamiter and a spy. Of course, the i trial was a farce and I was sentenced I to be shot, but Dr. Burgbelm Inter-' I vened and I was paroled." ! 1 Sands tried to dynamite the gunboat gun-boat Venus by paddling out to her In a canoe as she lay off Bluefields bluff. "They saw me." he said, "and sank the canoe wuh a machine gun. I escaped without a scratch and swam ashore." With se.ven men. Sands was sent two days "afterward to Trinz Apnlca. a town below Bluefields. The pin-boats pin-boats Venus and Jaclnt.a came down, shelled the town, landed 150 marines ! And . captured Sands and two of his men. "Two days after this capture." he said, "they took me out and made ma watch them shoot my two men they had captured. It was to impress me with my coming fate. They blindfolded blind-folded them, stood a file of soldiers off a few paces and shot them." |