The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-17
CARDS MEN
IN DANGER
Mexican Rurales Sent to
Arrest the Trailers
of Dunham.
WILL BE IMPRISONED IF
CAPTURED.
Governor Sangines of Lower
California Regards Them
as Invaders.
PURSUIT CT THE MURDERER
BALKED.
Mounted Parties Securing the Border
Country in Quest of the
Americans.
PURSUIT CT THE MURDERER
Baked.
Mounted Parties Securing the Border
Country in Quest of the
Americans.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Dec. 16.-The pur-
suers of Murderer Dunham are about to
be pursued themselves. If they do not
act with alertness and celerlty they are
likely to be caught by force of Mexican
rurales and taken ignominiously to En-
senada Jail. The Mexicans have been
ord cred to apprehend the American party,
and they will do so if they can.
Not word has been received from the
pursuers of Dunham, and no person is
known to have seen them after they
reached Mexican territory. So carefully
were the plans laid by ex-Marsha1 Gard
and Sheriff Lyndon that no one in San
Diego is positive as to the exact destina-
ton of the party, though it is evident
that they are going below the line.
The Mexican officers at Tia Juana and
else ewhere along the border are fully alive
to the situation. and so is Colonel Agus-
tin Sangines, Governor of the Northern
District of Lower California. The latter
makes it his business to keep posted on
everything going on along the border, re-
ceiving news by special courier or by
wire. The Mexican officers as general
rule speak and read English. The news
of the invasion of Mexican territory by
the Lyndon-Gard posse wrought them up
to a fever of excitement The San Diego
papers containing news OF the actions OF
the posse and its destination were eagerly
scanned
They were very wroth at Marshal Cards
assertion that he would enter Mexican
territory and locate his man, then return
and set the wheels in motion to secure the
aid of every Mexican officer and rurale on
the peninsula. The Tia Juana people
talked and gesticulated over this inter-
view and decided to let Governor Sangines
know its import at the earliest possible
moment. A courier was accordingly dis
patched on a fleet horse, bearing the pa
pers and letters from the comandante at
Tia Juana.
There is said to have been commotion
in Ensenada when the Governor learned
that an armed force was securing Mexico
without permission. Colonel Sangines is
fighting man himself, having conducted
several important campaigns in Central
Mexico on orders from General Diaz.
Sangines in the Tehuantepec uprising dis
played military qualities and firmness to
a degree that will not be encouraging to
the Americans if they fall into his clutches
in violation of the law.
Colonel Sangines' investigation of the
matter is said on the best of authority to
have resulted in orders to the CO.
mandante at Tia Juana to gather a force
of 1urales, we'll armed and mounted, and
to pursue without delay The Lyndon-Gard
posse and apprehend it, by force if neces-
sary. As was hinted to-day by Mexican
official connected with the consulate, the
Mexican comandante is instructed to
warn the American invaders to peaceably
retire from the country and accompany
them to the boundary line in order to in
sure the carrying out of the order. If,
however, the Americans evince determi-
nation to keep on and refuse to obey the
warning order, then the comandante is
ordered to arrest and convey them to
Ensenada.
Alta Juana to-day there was bustling
and suppressed excitement on the part of
the officers, and men ON horseback went
out in all directions, presumably to round
up the small bands of rurales scattered
through the country to concentrate them
at some unknown point.
1t was reported that the Mexican posse
was TO get away some time tonight and
meet another small posse somewhere in
posed TO have been taken by the Lyndon
Gard party. The rurales noticed at Tia
Juana to-day were in high feather, dis
playing their arms in full view-carbines,
sabers, pistols and all. They conversed
excitedly together, but would not reply to
anv questions propounded by curious
Americans who happened to be visiting
the. town.
Constable Clark, who gave the tip to
Sheriff Lyndon that caused that officer to
come posthaste to San Diego, said to-day
when Sheriff Lyndon returns from the
desert-that is from his trip-and Dun
hum is still at large 1 shall ask Lyndon if
he wants Dunham. If he wants Dunham
1 can take him TO man right here who
has talked with Durham within week.
He knows where Dunham is and has
known for three months. Dunham is in
Lower California, but he is not within 165
miles of where Lyndon and Gard are go-
ing"