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Show MEXICAN RAIDERS KILL AMERICANS PRESIDENT OF LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE AND HIS SON SHOT DOWN BY BANDITS. Mexicans Crossed Border, Ransacked Home of Victims and Then Foully Murdered Men in Their Own Homes. ! Brownsville. Texas. I'nited Slates cavalrymen, Texas rangers and posse of citizens are continuing their search for a band of a dozen Mexican ranch raiders, who on Friday, after several weeks of outlawry, raided the small town of Sebastian, thirty-seven miles north of Brownsville, and killed Al Austin, president of the Sebastian Law and Order league, and his son Charles. Adjutant General Henry llutchins of Texas visited Sebastian and person ally investigated conditions there and will recommend to Governor Ferguson that a sufficient force of the Texas National Guard be sent to Cameron county to afford protection against the outlaws. Officers of Cameron county, after five weeks' constant work, said they had found a clew to the identity of some of the raiders. A young American Amer-ican named Millard, who was a witness wit-ness to the killing of Austin and his son, was quoted as saying he recognized recog-nized five or six of the Mexican ban dlts as residents of the Sebastian community. He pave their names to the authorities. It was said. This Information, In-formation, if confirmed, would make certain' that Mexican residents on the Texas side of the Rio Grande are at least partly responsible for recent acts of outlawry charged to raiders from lie Mexican side. i IMi'lard was forced by the Mexicans j o drive a cart in which Austin and 1 : : on were paced, from their farm, 10 tl.eir home, which was ransacked. The Austins then were killed. Millard said lie recognized in one of the bandits ban-dits a Mexican to whom he hud loaned money, and. owing lo this fact, thinks his life was spared. |
