The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1886-09-04
TmE RAssUREs MURDER.
OaEciaT Report Of Consul Linn.

OAfcfaE EkepOrf of Consul Linn
Austin (Tex.) Special
The report Of Consul Linn trans
mitted yesterday to Gov Ireland bS
Secretary Bayard, relates at length
the arrest and subsequent murder o.
Reasures after his arrest. He was
conveyed across the Rio Grande and
delivered to Mondragon, who put
him in Jail. On the next morning
Reasures wrote an appeal to Consul
Linn, alleging his American citizen.
ship and demanding protection.
Upon investigation it was found
that he had been delivered to Mexi-
can officers without even the form of
an extraditional trial, and upon the
warrant of a county judge, who act
ed without even having formal
charges against the prisoner.
Consul Linn called upon Mondragon
and demanded that Reasurcs be rede-
livered to the Texas officers. Mon.
dragon admitted that the prisoner
had been irregularIy delivered to him,
but he declined positively to return
him to the Texas officers, upon the
ground that he had that morning
transferred the case to the district
Judge in Coahuila. A demand was
also made by Sheriff 0glesby, who
had delivered Reasures to the Mex
lean officers, asking Mondragon for
Reasures' return to him, promising to
hold him until regular extradition
proceedings could be instituted be-
fore Judge Hofstetter. He met with
a like refusal.
On the night of the 27th Reasures
was taken one mile west of the town
of Piedras Negras and shot to death
by party of Mondragon's troops.
The following day Mr.. Linn, at the
request of Reasures' mother and with
the consent of the authorities, had
the body taken from its shallow
grave to inclose it in a coffin. The
murdered mans arms were found pin
ioned to his side and with q towel as
a bandage over his eyes, in which con-
dition he had been thrown in the grave
in the clothes he had, without shroud,
coffin or other attention. The pre-
vious evening Mondragon loft for Sal
tiIlo, Mex, and while at Eagle Pass,
remarked to Francisco La Grange, a
reliable railroad employee, that he had
left orders with his soldiers to take
Reasures from jail and shoot him that
night.
An examination of the records of
Maveric county shows that Rassures
made a declaration to become a citizen
of the United States in 1873. His
employer, Mr. Wills, represents him
as a peaceable, Industrious man, and
many of the best Mexieans at Piedras
Negras testify to his good character,
Consul Linn, with this, concludes
his reports 'tI believe the killing of
Rassures to have been a brutal murder
in defiance of law and
without any justifable cause. 1t was
too, when a demand for his
return to the United States had been
made by an officer fully authorized
by the government to make it. This
brutal murder is then both wrong
done to an American citizen and an IN |
suit to our Government"
He also refers to the killing Of Juan
in April last by Mondragon,
whom he shot IN like manner, without |
any trial. He says: "There is no
doubt of the killing of Golindo, as at |
he time l was fully advised, it having |
occurred within my consular district;
1nt Golindo was represented as Mex
can citizen and a horse thief, shot
while making his escape; hence made
10 report to the department, nor took
,fficial cognizance of the affair, as
we'll as several cases ofkilling likewise
Criminal proceedings have been in
'tituted against the Texas officials CON
;erned in the arrest, and they have
,een placed under a bail bond of
1900 each. Complaint was also fled
Igainst Mondragon in the same case,
he charge being kidnapping but his
.bsence in Mexico prevented his trial.
Sheriff oglesby explains his actions
hus: "a warrant for the arrest and
eliyery Of Reassures was sent me
rom Piedras Negras, Mexico, Upon
/ 4
d, and obtained an order from the
ounty judge to deliver him and did
0, taking receipt for him, | have
lst learned he was an American cit
zen. This is all | know about the
latter, as | have been accustomed ,
! like ~manner heretofore to deliver
p parties under the same ciroumstan- j
Is and thought it under the province ,
{ law, ". s-