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Show The Mexicans Murdered Captain Crawford. Tucson, Arizona, February 4. With reference refer-ence to the recent killing of Captain Crawford Craw-ford by Mexican troops, the Star says: It can be shown to the satisfaction of any Congressional committee that a trade has been constantly kept up by: the Mexicans with hostile Apaches, while every obstaole has been put in the path of the American commands sent into Mexico in pursuit of renegades. -Whenever possible the officers were arrested' and thrown into prison. Among these were Lieutenant McDonald, Fourth cavalry, and Lieutenant Elliott, Tenth cavalry. They were kept under guard until the approach of large forces of American Ameri-can troops liberated them. From most reliable information there is not the least doubt , - THE JICBDEB OF CAPTAIN ORAWFOBD WAS PREMEDITATED. PRE-MEDITATED. El Paso, Texas, February 4. The report of the commanding officer of the Mexicans who attacked Crawford's command has been published in Estado de Chihiahua, a newspaper news-paper which reached here to-day. It states: On the Uth instant the Mexicans . corn-batted corn-batted a great number of tame and wild Indians, In-dians, probably over 200, led by foreign. (U S.) officers and over twenty soldiers. Four Mexicans are reported killed and -f our wounded. The report also states, "they displayed dis-played not a sign of legality, as was evinced as much by their strategy as by the animals which they hod, and which I hold to prove they were stolen." The report is dated from Delore's mining camp, January 20th, and signed Santa Anna Perez. It is believed be-lieved the animals referred to m the report are those captured from the Indians, which the latter had probably stolen. Washington, February 4. It is believed at the War Department that the killing of Captain Crawford by Mexican troops . WAS THE RESULT OP ACCIDENT, And that the Mexicans fired on his command mTder the impression that they were hos-Sles hos-Sles The .statement- that the United States troops had stock in their Sssession atPthe time of the attack which had been stolen in the vicinity, is explained S Lieut. Mair's report that . they had just captured it from hostile Indians. It is explained ex-plained that Captain Crawford was unable to show the identity of his command at the outTt of the firing by the Mexicans, because of his ignorance of the nature of the attack andthe general demoralization which it caused. |