El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-22
LIABLE TO BE DEVELOPMENTS.
A Secret Agent of Mexico Arrested Last
Night.

A secret Agent of Mexico ATTeSteu h-fio9
Night
For some time past both Ell Paso and
Juarez have been kept in turmoil
over arrests and attempted arrests OF
American citizens 10 JuareZ, who were
with aiding and abettlng the
late raid on the PalomaS custom n luse
by a band of Mexican thieves. nile
no excitement appeared on the SURFACE
still there was strong undercurrenu
of feeling in official circles on both
sides of the river. Americans felt that
there was some Secret agent who was
causing all this trouble and that the
eviaence the agent was producing
against certain parties was not always
obtained by fair, but was very
often obtained by foul means, Ine
late arrest of Mr.. Ca derOn, while he
was on a sit to Juarez W tn his family,
aroused several parties to acJlon and
they have been camping on a trail that
was last night run down and the party
who has been causing the trouble be-
tween the two countries was located
and evidence enough was obtained
against him to justify his arrest on the
charge of beating his wife. The case
produced enough evidence to show by
what means this secret agent succeed
ed in getting parties arrested and also
showed that the Mexican officials on
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Systematically fooled as the evidence
adduced before them showed that all
parties were guilty of the crimes
charged against them, but last night
it was shown just how this evidence to
fool the Mexican government was OBJ
tanned, and al this came out as the
result of the secret agents beating his
wife.
His wife called in the police to have
he no nd St,.ily her
aud then and there let the whole thing
out. She said her husband was in the
employ of the Mexican consul. Mallen,
and that he was now and had been
working up evidence against parties
supposed to have some connection with
the Palomas custom house robbery, but
his main work of late was to procure
evidence against Santa Teresa and
Senior Calderon, the latter now in
Jail in Juarez. She stated that her
| husband had yesterday tried to induce
| her to go over the river and swear to
certain things which he dictated about
Santa Teresa and Senior Calderon.
| This the woman refused to do, and
after long attempt at persuasion, he
at last became mad and because she
would not swear to what she knew was
untrue, he struck her and she had him
| arrested. While the woman was max
| ing this statement Mexican man came
| uD and said he had been approached in
| the same way and asked to go over the
| river sn1 swear to things he knew
nothing about against Sa lta Teresa.
He refused to do so and said the agent
hit him in the eye and he produced q
| black eye as evidence of the fact.
| This agent has been living near San
ia Teresa's residence for several
months and has often made attempts
ingratiate himself into the good
| friendship of Santa Teresa and her
| family, but Teresa has always been
suspicious of him and warned her re-
la ives aud friends against him. 1t is
claimed that he is the party tina,
concocted the evidence against Sc
nor Calderon and that the evidence
was manufac Lured from the fact that
Mr.. Calderon often called at Santa Te'
resa's residence and was friendly &c
the whole family.
The secret a GENT is an American but
is MARI ed to a Mexican woman; hls
name is known to the HERALD report
ter, but not given, as there is more
! evidence brewing against Inn that VII
be stronger than thai Obtained last
| mig hit and if it can be proven that he
has been gully of trying to bride
witnesses to swear falsely, he ma!
| have to answer charges in the courts
on his side of the river.
There is still more developments il
the case then is here given, but tbs
HERALD has not yet succeeded in OBJ
tanning all in creditable form and will
not give mere rumor as facts again,t
any party. 1t is to be hoped that the
| Mexican officials on the other side o
the river will give this matter thor
ough investigation and if they find
that they have been duped by false
witnesses that they will do justice to
the parties accused and reward the
false witne sses by term in prison
The HERALD does not charge then
with wrong doiog, but belives they
have been imposed upon by partie:
who are playing to keep themselves il
the pay of the Mexican government.