El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-04
ATTORNEYS FOR
THE AMERICANS
The Prisoners Held at Casas
Grandes Will Be Taken
to Chihuahua.

Chihuahua, Mex, April 4--InQuiry
today concerning the condition of the
American prisoners at Casas Grandes
revealed that the state department at
Washington is determined to give the
prisoners the utmost protection, Mr..
Sewers of New York wired the United
States consul at Chihuahua asking
that if possible he put his son in COM
munication with the outside world and
give him the benefit of an attorney.
since the publication of the identity
Of the prisoners it is believed that
the Mexican government will see that
they are not harmed.
Mexican officials will not take the
risk of marching the prisoners through
the insurgent ranks, but 1t is prom
ised that they will be brought to Chi
| huahua for trial in the civil courts on
charges of sedition as soon as exped-
lent.
ST. Louisan Mexico Prisoner.
St. Louis, Mo-, April 4.-Tiring of
humdrum city life and pining for ex-
element Ferdinand Lteber, soldier OF
fortune, of St Louis, is now anguish
ing In a dungeon in Mexico. Dispatches
from that country say he was cap
tured with other insurrectos in the
, battle of Casas Grandes, March 6. He
is 50 years old.
-
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen j.
Thieser, 2525 Minnesota avenue. He
left home February and his wife has
not heard from him since
According to his fatherinlaw, Lieber
was a lieutenant in the German army
and served in the United States army
| in the Philippines. He came TO ST
Louis in April. 1910, and organized the
Universal Welding company, at Thir-
teenth and Pine streets.
The company prospered, and he mar
ried Miss Katherine Thieser last No
| vember. He devoted his time to In
ventions, Mr. Thieser says, and. throw
| ing up the management of the COM
pany. left ST. Louis. Mr.. Thieser says
Lieber is naturalized.
Father Not Worried.
Santa Ana, Cal, April 4.-'1f you
don't hear from me in the next three
| months, you may know I'm dead,
| wrote Alfred FRANKIE, aged "a, unmar-
ried. from an insurrecto camp near
Ell Paso to his father, Fred FRANKIE,
| thrifty German piano tuner and ranch
er. and his mother at No. 904 Stafford
street
The letter was received five weeks
ago It directed that mail to the writ
er be sent to FL Paso whence mes
senger would take it to the rebel camp.
Two letters written by Mrs. FRANKIE
! have been returned. and the mans rel
atives here had begun to fear that he
had fallen a victim to a federal bull
| let.
The first news that he was taken
prisoner at Casas Grandes was reeeiy-
| ed by the FRANKIE family through the
| dispatches.
FRANKIE has been a wanderer though
| a hard worker all his life. He spent
| five wears in Canada and served veal
in the American navy as an engineer
being discharged when one foot wa.
| crushed by a falling anvil. He still
| limped from this wound when he lef'
( his home here last September for Ari
IONA He readily became an insured
| to recruit. his mother thinks, because
he was probably promised gift o,
| land ard money if the insurrectos won
According to his last letter he was {
| captain" among the rebels. He saiC
they had expected fight daily, bu
he mentioned no combat.
What can do?" asked his fathei
helplsssIy. 81 can't do anything H
had TO business getting into tina
mess"