El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-30
Sensational Story Of Abuse
Of An American Yellow
Toto Man Who Is Entirely Reliable and Fully
As the Facts.

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prison at Ures, subject to indignities
and often left for hours without food.
Finally her Trial took place, and this
she dismisses with the words:
"The judge sentenced me to four
years. imprisonment. Imagine my
feelings when this was Interpreted to
me, here alone in foreign land, with
only my brother to help ne among
these barbarous people,"
The brother, poor as he was, seems
to have stood nobly by his sister while
the husband, still unconscious of what
has befallen his wife, is still laboring
at tie mines miles away from the pris-
on where she fingers. William Frost
the Jail at Hermosillo, and at the same
time took an appeal to the supreme
court.
The jailer ssleeps outside Der cell,
and his apartment is used as a dressing
room by all the guards, SO that, in spite
of the sitting heat. she Ia obliged to
keep the cell door almost continuously
closed. Mrs. Golfers letter closes in
the following words:
time by men who use the very vilest
language. They bring sick prisoners
there to doctor them. The guards go
there to change their clothes, so my
door is closed most of the time and 1
am slowly roasting to death. They
have promised to get another place
for me but it Is always tomorrow II
we had the means l might stand a lit
tie chance, but as we are poor my con-
dition is indeed deplorable. So, with q
heart full of despair, 1 await the final
Issue, and heaven knows what 1t may
be. The jailer quarrels with my broth
er and constantly threatens to exclude
him altogether from visiting me, and
If he does, 1 shall die, for cannot have
the door open when 1 am alone. Oh,
my countrymep, cannot you do some
thing to save me from this living
death? II you will aid me you will
have the grateful prayers of
"MRS EvELYNE COLLIER.
THE OTHER SIDE.
A prominent American, who was in
Ell Paso today and last night, who
comes straight from Ures and Her
mOsillO, where he is extensively inter-
ested in mining. takes quite another
view of the situation.
He told a HERALD reporter this
morning that the reflections of Mrs.
Collier on the Mexicans, their courts,
and the Americans residing in Mexico
were wholly unjust.
He says he took it upon himself to
personally examine the aspect of the
case and found that Mrs. Collier has
been shown the utmost kindness by the
judge of the court and all other officials
and that the Judge himself went to the
woman's house and gave hearing to
her highly colored and improbable |
story. |
The Mexican who was shot was in a |
beastly state of intoxic1tion and went |
to the womsn's cabin looking for Mes |
cal. He had just been put out of q |
saloon. He was physically unable TO
assault the womanand could
stand on his feet. He Was
shot through the door.
The prisoners present quarters are
better than the quarters che left and
Ill surroundings are pleassntsr. She
was conveyed to prison in the best pub
1c carriage the country Whereabouts
affords, and agtraveler pays $50 for the
same trip in the same vehicle.
AS to being left for hours without
God, she was served three good meals
! day from outside the prison, and nat
,rally was not fed on candy between
meals.
The woman's defense was ably con-
lucted and only married by the foolish,
Inconsistent and erroneous statements
made and sworn to by the woman and
Ter brother.
THE BROTHER.
The traveller says that the woman's |
Illeged brother, with whom she was
living, is man OF low and brutal in
tincts and that he is totally 1lliterate
md is believed to be a fugitive from
he orthwestern portion of the United
states. He is now posing as the ''hero
'rother OF the American woman who
Tiled greaser. The brother is a
lock member and he with his s'sister"
anne into that section a year ago from
be Yaqui gold fields.
Another FEATURE said the visitor.
that made inRratitude almost crime ,
'as the prisoners unwarranted reflec- :
ions on the American residents. The =
-mer1canslesponded nobIy to her ap- ,.
calls for aid and, although not person
lily acquain tedssWith her, they made up ,
purse of between $500 and $1,000 and y,
armed it over to the brother to be used t.
defending the woman. q
FALSE ACCOUNT DENOUNCED. {
"Tbe Americans are highly indig- z
ant at the false accounts of the kill
'g and imprisonment published in the :.
nited States and 80 or 40 residents =
mt out protest from Hermosillo the =
Az before T left >,