El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-15
NEWSPAPER Min
LOCKED Up
BY MAYOR
Gerald Brandon Insists on
Seeing Gen. NAVARRO
Kelly Says No.

Gerald Brandon. correspondent for
al Diario." of Mexico City, spent
couple of hours locked in a cell at the
city 5ail last night on orders Of mayor
C. E. Kelly.
Felix Sommerfeld. one of the Asso-
ciated Press staff. was told TO beat IL
from the Sheldon by alderman Walter
CLAYTON when he asked why the cor
respondent was being locked up
This morning the New York World,
the New York Herald, the New York
Times. the New FORK sun, the Hearst
naoers the Omaha Bee and El Dfarlo
at least contain dispatches about 'po-
lice methods in FL Paso-"
The mayor said he locked Brandon
up on charge of disorderly conduct
He released him after a consultation
with civ attorney ". NJ Coldwell and
Alfred Henry Lewis, the author who
IS here representing the Hearst papers.
No charge was made against the young
man on the docket, 1t is stated, but ne
was locked up.
The incident arose out Of Brandon's
efforts to see Gen. Juan Navarro, Tor
mer commander of the federal troops IN
Juarez, who is now Cd the FL Paso side
of the river Brandon4nterpreted be-
tween mayor Kelly and Gen. navarro
on Saturday afternoon when the mayor,
in an automobile, took the general from
q downtown store to his present stop
ping place
Cen. Navarro commissioned Brandon
to perform some services on the III
Paso side OF the river for him and gave
him a note to mayor Kelly asking that
Brandon be permitted to see him at any
time. Yesterday Brandon attempted TO
see Navarro and was refused permits
sion. In the evening at the Sheldon
hotel. Brandon presented the note from
Navarro TO the mayor. Felix Sommer-
field. of the Associated Press, who was
standing near. declares that he heard
the mayor say: Il am tired CT your
fourflushing.' and that Brandon re-
nlied: Il am not fourflushing. I know
who is. ard am merely calling your
hand"
Kelly said: you will get all the pro-
lection you need in Ell Paso.'
..T know / will said Brandon, but
not as a favor from you-because l
know how to get it."
According TO Sommerfeld, Brandon was
then ordered locked up and alderman
Clayton told Sommerfeld to heat II
when he attempted to intercede although
Sommerfeld lives at the Sheldon and
was in the corridor of that hotel at the
tine.
All Of the visiting new spaper men and
two Herald men called on the mayor In
the drug store in the sheldon building
and asked him why he was holding
Brandon. s'Disorderly conduct, salu
the mayor.
What is the nature Of the disorderiy
conouctzv asked the Herald man, but
the mayor said he would not talk until
be had consulted isis legal adviser.
Habeas corpus writs, bonds and other
things were discussed by the news
paper men, meantime judge Coltiwel
arrived. and. after he and alderman
Clayton and the mayor had conferred
the mayor talked with Alfred Henry
Lewis and told him TO go to the station
and get Brandon out. If he would agree
TO be responsible for the young man.
The mayor then telephoned the police
to release Brandon to Lewis.
Brandon says when he was taken to
the jail he asked not to be locked UP,
but they told him the orders from the
mayor were TO lock him up, and that no
bond would be accepted
May ! see an attorney" Brandon
asked
morning" he says they told him, and
he was put behind the bars
The mayor. naturally not very COM
Tnunicative, said to a Herald man: Gen.
Navarro is in FL Paso and it is the
duty Of the city to protect him. He
did not explain Bfandon's connection
with the matter Of protecting the
august prisoner, but IN the corridors Of
the hotel II was said that the mayor or
somebody close to him, had stated that
# was feared Brandon would be traiIed
TO Navarro by fnsurrectos and that they
would thus locate and assassinate the
general, il being known by the in
surrectos that Brandon is a friend Of
long standing as a newspaper man of
the general, having campaigned with
him west OF chihuahua and having
been wounded with Navarro's army
Police chief Jenkins was in the hotel