The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13
Slayer Is Placed In Prison to Save Him from
 MOb'S Vengeance
MANY AMERICANS WILL
 LEAVE GOADALAJARA
Is of American Percentage and Is Brother of the Consular
 Agent at Torreon

Guadalajara, Mex, November R.--Car- los B. Carothers, @ locally prominent real estate dealer. shot and killed Jesus Loza, B 14-year-oId Mexican boy, and wounded Prudoncio Chavez, a gendarme. in de- lending his home against riotous attack by Mexicans last night. Carothers sur rendered to the authorities at the first opportunity and was placed in the state penitentiary at midnight.
 Following & preliminary examination today he was placed in incommunicado until Tuesday morning.
 Notwithstanding the entire police force, foot and mounted. and the Tenth regi- ment of cavalry were called out. rioting, which began at o'clock in the even- ing. was suppressed only after three hours of vigorous efforts and after con- siderable additional damage to property had been done. The affair was a con- tinuation of the previous nights vio- lence by students and workmen. As on Thursday night the mob travelled rap Idly through the business district, hurling rocks through the windows of American establishments, many of which already had been partially demolished and had reached the American residence section when they were overtakn by the soldirs and police.
 Carothers, who declared at the office station that he is Mexican born. Sal tilo, state of Coahuila, but whos. pa- rents were Louisianans, was guarding his home in the western part of the city, the windows and doors of which had been broken in during the first nights rioting, when the mob approached
 At the first alarm he took his family to the roof of the building for safety. From that vantage point he opened fire with a rife as the crowd attempted to enter and wreck his home. The quick action Of til- police and soldiers prevented the mob from reaching Carothers and wrecking vengeance upon him. He surrendered to Jefe Politico Espana, who placed him un- dar arrest and took him to prison Carothers Is brother of G, C. Caroth- CTS, American consular agf at Tor reon, Coahuila.
 The property damage last night con- sisted of demolished windows and store fronts, valued at approximately s1500 One of the places that suffered was the afcre of the National Candy conipany,i established by an Arlefioan, but now owned by a Mexican Iron learning of ns Mexican ownershsp the crowd took up subscription to bty the proprietor new glass. Windows were also smashed ,r the passenger station of the National 
 realized that it was the property of the Mexican government Other places at tackled or revisited were the Hotel Bohn- stedt the Guadalajara Times, the real estate offices of Downs X Son, also the office of the Rogers Real Estate company. The residence of J. Slattery was stoned and fired into and that of Joe F. Purnell was stoned.
 John H. Kipp, on Thursday night, pre- vented the mob from entering his subur- ban home in the American colony by standing guard with shotgun. A num- Ter of American families are preparing to abandon their homes in the suburbs and concentrate in the principal hotels. The proprietors of the latter declare that they are prepared to resist by force of arms if necessary any attempt to enter.
 The American consulate is guarded to- night by detachment of the Tenth cavalry The authorities declared that tt ere will be no recurrence of violence and say that several hundred arrests have been made.