The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-12-12

attention, and no attemp. was made TO
capture the assassins, who are still at
large.
IT IS DARKLY HISIED,
And not without cause. that when often
sive politicians, "pernicious foreign
ers" iparticularly newspaper writers)
and others become obnoxious from any
cause TO the powers that be. they are
uncomfOrtsbly IN danger of receiving a
sudden and eternal quietus at the hands
OF midnight assaSSins or highway rob
bers, whose identity is never estab-
lished.
According to the constitution Of Mex
leo, capital punisL ment is not inflicted
except for very rare Offenses, yet they
have sure and effectual way Of dispos-
ing of criminals who are liable to be-
come troublesome. The offenders are
perhaps, baLished for a term of years
TO Nucatan-a much-dreaded punish
ment, which few. II any, survivor
are condemned TO some terrible prison
like that of san Juan de Utica, in Vera
Cruz harboT. On the way thereto the
prisoner Is purposely given every OPP
portunity 10 escape. and il he takes ad
vantage OF the offered temptation, the
guard Immediately shoots kim, and
that is the end of II.
By the wsy. President Diaz's action
in the late terrible affair at MonteTey
does not tally with his oft-repeaied as
sertiOn during the Cutting ARRAY of be-
ing entirely Pey er,ess 10 interfere with
any decision of the State courts con
corning crimes and misdemeanors COM
United within their limits. TIE papers
have told you how a jealous Mexican.
Don Vicente Escendez by name, boarded
a railroad car near Nuevo Laredo which
contained his wife and children and
murdered thIm in cold blood amid the
shrieks of the passengers. Hswas i'm
prisOned in Monterey. and q few days
later was led out and shot by order Of
the local authorities. ThereupOn. Diaz
telegraphed from the City o. Mexico
his uncalled for approval. an unneces-
sAry proceeding, considering his recent
attitude on the subject of STATES rights.
As an Instance OF now
LITTLE REGARD FOR HUNA1,LtrE
is entertained by the government, let
me tell you e pitiful story. Some three
wears ago a child was missing from one
of the great haciendas at the edge Of
Zacatecas, and after two weeks Of fruit
less searching the distracted parents
concluded that he had been kidnapped.
Thereupon. since blindfOlded Justice de-
manded sOiae sort Of satisfaction, more
than twenty persOns-mOSt OF them
labOrers about the mines-Tere hastily
tried and shot on the merest suspicion
that they might know something about
the lost boy. A gentleman who re ijed
10 Zacatecas at the time, and who was
acquainted with the circumstances, tells
me that no words can describe the
heartrending scenes when the innocent
men were dragged from the clinsing
arms of their wives and children to be
thus judicially murdered. about three
months afterwards somebody happened
TO look down into a deep hollow
probably an abandoned prospect hole
not far from the fathers house,
and dimly discerned something
at the bottom which excited his curios-
itv. Ladders were brought. and closer
investigation revealed a small skeleton g,
its head covered with the little cap
which the mis- ing child bad worn on
the day OF his disappearance. This
then was the solution Of the mystery.
The lad was subject 70 epileptic hts,
and in one of them had undoubtedly
fallen into the hole. and, being unsble
70 make himself heard from such 3
depth. had slowly starved 70 death
within loo yards % home My inform
ant was present when the mOuldv
Jacket aud muddy little shoes were
brought up with the bassSetfui Of cones,
and saws that the c.owd went -Ldly "a
symp lthy with the mourning mother,
bus nobody seemed 20 nave a thought
for the score OF innocent men so need
le,slv sacrificed. nor for the twenty
widows and their hungry children. so
ike Mexicans. We bntn exclsim d.
FANNIE B. WAzD.