The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-26
MEXICAN TESTIFIED IN
EXTRAO|T|ON CASES
sWEARs HE FOLLOWED DE-
PENDANTS ON MISSION OF SIC
NlFlCANCE.

Guthrie. Okla, oct. 2i-The prin
cipal witness for the government in
the Mexico requlsi,ion hearing to'
day was Roman Galan Of Muzquiz,
tax collector for the state of COahu'
ia, by whom the government sought
to prove that certain Of the defent
ants paid bribe money to Guariai.
Geafe. Doiticio of Muzquiz, to ale
them In securing admission TO the
Kickapoo Indian camp near that
place. and securing deeds 10 their
lands Galan, who speaks very bro
ken English. testified that he saw
". l.. Chapman, DR.. Il. c. Conine,
two OF the defendants. and Amarant
Falcon. private secretary to Guar
iado and Rafael Flore, chief of po-
/ lice OF SaJinas, get OFF the north
bound train at Diaz, Coahuila, get
in a hack together and drive across
the bridge over the Rio Grande to
Eagle Pass. Texas. The witness stat
ed that he followed them in a liv-
cry rig and saw them enter the
/ First National bank at Eagle Pass
and that he hitched his team and
went around to a window so he
could command a view Of the inte-
rior of the bank. ualan said he
saw L. II. Schmidt. cashier of the
bank, pay some money to w. L..
/ Chapman, one of the defendants, who
/ in turn handeA it to Falcon, Guar
| jado's secretary; thai the two Mex
/ leans returned to Diaz and took the
south.bound train together toward
/ Muzquiz.
| This occurred July 81, 1906, ac-
| cording to the witness. Upon cross
| examination, b. b. Blakeney, attor-
ney for Chapman and Conine, tried
/ to confuse the witness in his story,
/ but ii, the main the Mexican ad-
| Ecrcd TO his original testimony. The
| defense, however, developed from
/ the witness that he and Martin j.
| Bently who had for several years
previous been taking KickapoO In
dams from Shawnee TO camps near
| Mu2Guiz, We're on very frien .ly
terms. that Bently made Galan S
store his headquarters, getting his
mail in Galan's care, and that the
witness followed the two defendants
and two MeXlcans to the Eagle Pass
bank for the purpose of shadowing
them. Galan denied, however, that
he went to Eagle Pass to buy land
of the Indians in connection with
Beuty. bu, stated that following the
Issuance of theorder of GuarjaCo
/ causing the arrest of Benty and
barring him from the Indian camp,
he CGalan) had left NIuzquiz and had
gone to Eagle Pass before Guarjado
had filed complaint against him,
charging him with being an ally
Of Bently. The defense brought out
this testimony in an effort to prove
/ it's charges that Bently is back OF
the prosecution of the delendan S
and in an effort to show that the
witness was in league with Bent
ley. During the examination of Galan
an Interpreter was used for the first
time in the present trial, and Sen
ator Nicolas BarascruCc, aced in
that capacity during part OF the wit
nesses' testimony.
Senator Baraaalucc was placed on
the stand by the government again
TO Interpret the Mexican law of lin.
itauons. lie was rightly cross-eN-
amlned by the defense. \ large
number of KickapOo and Shawnee
! Indians. most OF them blanket In
dians. were in attendance in court
| today and they will be placed on the
stand by the government N support
Of its charges that the defendants
forced deeds and checks of the In
fans A number of the Indians pres
cnt are those whose deeds and
checks were forged, according TO the
charge of the government and whom
the government claims will testify
that they didn't sign the deeds and
cot no money for their land.
Frank Thackery, Indian agent at
Shawnee since 1901 was placed
on the stand late in the afternoon by
the government to identify the allot-
mtpts and allotment numbers of
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