San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-08-12
JUDGE EVANS TALKS.
on American Soil by Mexican
spies and How Certain

on American Soil by Mexican
spies and How Certain
Arrests Were
Made.
The Arkansas Pass train last night
brought back Judge Evans from the
Rio Grande border, who left on Aug.
End with Deputy U. s. Marshal Van
Ripper, to investigate the CARA affair
and to ascertain whether or not
the reports, which had been cir
culated about Marshal Fricke having
appointed incompetent deputies to
| detect the GAIA revolutionisss were
| true.
A reporter for the LIGHT was de.
| tailed to call Cd the Judge this morn
| ing to get the latest news from the
| fields on the banks of the Rio
Grande. He found him at his
| office in o very worn out condition
after his trip, but nevertheless, the
| Judge was cordial and talked on the
| subject, telling some things which
may interest the general public. He
said, when questioned by the reporter:
| II will tell you all about the affair as
| L
| August General Garcia, commander
of the Mexican forces, through certain
| spies or detectives that occasionally
come into our territory, learned that
| there was meeting, or getting to-
| gether, OF Cara bandits at an obscure
ranch on the American side, known
as the wild Hog or 'Javalina'
ranch. After learning this he
/ -
authorities at Rio Grande City
to suppress the thing. Ons'the morn
ing of the Sd, Lieutenant Lsnghorne,
with troops of cavalry, was sent to
examine the matter and on the night
of the 3rd, Le rounded up the ranch
with his men and found credible evi.
denee that a party of about nine
armed Mexicans had left the ranch,
going in a north east direction; that
second party of four men had left the
place shortly after the departure of
the first, going in the same direction
and that third party of two had
done likewise. He found nothing
at the ranch when he arrived
there. With his troops he bore
north by the ranches Los CuevIts and
RendsdO and struck the railroad
somewhere about the Realities, a sta
ton. on the Mexican National rail-
road, finding no evidence whatever OF
the bandits.
This is the whole of the latest re-
port of the Cara business.
The telegram or letter published in
the San Antonio Daily Express on the
morning OF the 5th, purported to have
been written at Rio Grande City on
the 4th inst, headed 'Garzs Located
is and was wholly untrue, without
the semblsncs of fact for basis"
What is Fricke doing ?" asked the
LIGHT reporter.
II have nothing to say. He is down
there, or was"
"Where is Deputy Van Ripper ?"
HE is at Rio Grande City, waiting
for orders from Fricke to 20 on duty,
but as yet he has not and I don't
think Fricke will put him on"
The above, was all thst could be
obtained. and the reporter, not de-
string to further detsin the judge
when he was in need of rest, left.
A visit was then made to the Office of
the United States court clerk, and the
reporter asked to see the warrants
which had been issued for the arrest
of the four men, namely, Salinas, Eli
zardo, Garcia and Juan Cara, who
had been reported in one of the papers
as having been arrested by Marshal
Fricke. The warrants all show that
the arrests were made by John Jor-
don, deputy marshal, and not
Fricke. The arrest of Vicente Garcia
was made at Rio Graude City by JOr-
don, but the keen detective work,
that had been rumored about the
arrest was incorrect. Garcia went to
Rio Grande City and surrendered
himself to the United states commits
sioner and the arrest was credited to