Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-04
IN IRONS ABOARD
GUNBOAT PAOUCAH
The Chief Of Police and Sew
eraI Policemen OF Puerto
Cortez, Honduras.
CHARGE, MURDERoUs ASSAULT
Arrested on Commander t'uliams Ut
der for Attacking Louisiana Ne
gro Named General Davis.

puerto Cortez Honduras. April ~,
,,bia Mobile Ala, May S.-The chief OF
,olire and several policemen OF TINS
Mace are IN irons aboard the American
punboat Paducah. charged win muir
dp,ous assault, and must fac trial
nv court-martial and possible hanging
from the yard arm of the Paducah.
They were arrested on orders issued by
Commander Fullam of the Marietta for
attacking Louisiana negro named
General Davis here on April e. and
perhaps fatally iujuring him. NUM-
her of Nicaraguan officers ana men
also were arrested in connection win
the affair. These were delivered to tho
custody of Gen ESTRADA. VINO was adj
vised by Commander Fullam That ne
would be held responsible for their sale
Davis. who is an inspector for the
Thacker Brothers Steamship line, was
talking with some negro companions to-
day when he was threatened with a
machete by drunken soldier. Davis
Wrested the weapon away from the man
and went into Il house nearby. Soon
a squad of police and soldiers arrived
and arrested him. While being dragged
10 the Quartet, Davis was beaten into
insensibility. Thinking Davis was dy-
ing. they look nun DdCk 10 llle piettt Va
his arrest and threw him down on the
ground refusing to allow his compan-
ions to remove him into the shade.
PHYSICIANS arrived and found him per-
haps fatally hurt.
Within 10 minutes the blue Jackets of
The Marietta under Ensign Rurasach
were on the spot,
commander Fullams orders were
sharp and decisive;
Arrest the chief of police" he said,
"and the policemen engaged in the as
sault; put them in irons and send them,
aboard ship. Arrest the Nicaraguan
officers and men engaged in the assault
aud hold them for orders.
1t was thought possible that an at
tempt would be made to release the
soldiers and police captured by the
blue Jackets, and additional men We're
landed from the Paducah and the Ma
lietta. The Pnducah moved TO posi-
tion fronting the Nicaraguan cuartels
while the Marietta covered the cuartcls
in the port
Commander Fullam. finding that the
civil authorities were incapable of
maintaining regulations or order; that
the government OF Tegucigalpa was a
mere provisional agreement of certain
,,aders that so far gave no evidence
of stability, decided 10 ignore the au-
thurites here and recognize the only
organized and disciplined force under
Gen. Estrada, commanding the Mic
araguan forces, who had in the mean
time re slrned from an outing.
Notice has been served ON the Hon
duran and Nicataguan authorities that
rcparation would be demanded and
punishment should be inflicted upon all
OF the perpetrators of the outrage.
Commander Fullam says if Davis
dies the perpetrators will be tried for
murder, presumably by court-martial,
and the guilty ones hung at the yard
arm in front of the port. The Paducah
was ready to sail for Ceiba and Truxil-
TO- but will remain here for the present.
Commander Fullam has placed Capt
~ iterhalter in command of the land
forces, and he is conducting a vigorous
Investigation of all the details of the
Davis affair