Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-04-19
CAPTIVEs BROUGHT
IN TRUMP To
CHIHUAHUA
THIRTY AMERICANS IN
MEXICAN PENITENTlARY
Taken at Battle of CaSaS
Grandes They Face Trial for
Seditioni Well Treated and
Hope for Help From Uncle
Sam,


by Morning Journal Special Leased WtreI
Chihuahua, April II, (via Laredo,
Tex.) April 1S.-The prisoners who
were in the hands of the Mexican fed
eral troops at the time of the battle
Sunday between federals and insur-
rectos between Sauz and Santa Clara,
arrived here today accompanied by
1000 federal troops under Lie Bago.
All the prisoners, except for ia
tigue, seemed in good shape and spir-
its. They said they had been well
treated Describing their experiences,
Sydney Severns said:
when we saw the federals had
surrounded us, we surrendered. About
ten days ago we started on the march
here. The food and treatment has
been the best possible under the cir
cumstances. We are hopeful the
United States viii get us released
This afternoon the American pris-
oners were taken to the penitentiary
where each was confined In a separ-
ate cell. No one hereafter will be al
lowed to see them except the United
States consul, The cells though with
out bedding, are clean and sanitary
and the Americans here have ar
ranged to provide the prisoners with
good tobacco and other comforts, In
vestigation by Consul Techter and
Vice Consul Leonard disclosed several
corrections in the list of names as
originally given out.
r. C. Lee lives at Mount Washing
ton, Mo.
The man who gave his name as
Carlton is h. c. Beck of Mount Pleas
ant, Pa, and Murray" Is William
Huggard of New York.
John Harrison is 'sN~ lHA Farms
worth, of Mantorfi is invitd
The prisoners Il If the'nsul Lstche
that seventy-fiveNl rafans were en-
gagged in the Casas .Arandes fight
They said about thirty Amerlens
were killed. They also said tbat
among the killed not previouslv va
ported were John Deerer ~ Ne
braska and Samuel Rupla,d race
track man of New York
The story told py Lee Aas thrilling.
He said;
we began attack ig the town at
daylight, having p'ovled around II
the previous night to select positions.
AT the opening he soldiers of the
town were flurrha init soon they got
on 'ne nouseeops and responded Wig
ouIousiy "e had the best of them
ana after fly hours they raised a
white flag
Meanune we rushed in and they
peean irisg again. They had With
aNh~aAic white flag, it seems, be-
causs Colonel Cuellar, with 700 men
was coming to their rescue. The fight
eoitlnued in the town and through
streets.
about Twenty-Five of us Ameri-
cans got inside an adobe house. From
the windows of these we continued to
fight until we saw it was hopeless.
Then we hoisted a white flag, but for
twenty minutes afterward we were
still under fire.
"Deerer and Rupland were killed
by my side. When the federals ceased
firing we went outside and surrend-
cred our arms. Colonel Cuellar or
dered that we be put under guard
and treated as prisoners of war.
Ever since, although we have hao
many hardships, our treatment has
been as good as we could expect"
1t is not known when the trials oil
the prisoners will start.
Consul Letcher has obtained all thu
data available for presentation to thu
state department.
Three thousand federal troops
among them those who brought the
prisoners from Casas Grandes, passed
the streets here today, displaying
horses, wagons and other equipment
which had been captured from the in
surrectos.
The German consul Is looking after
the interests of the two Germans
brought with the American prisoners