Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-02
Captain Marston, Soldier of
Fortune, Returns With Tale
of Terrible Atrocities.

tain Marston-Senor Don Sailor Jack,
the Mexicans call him-has been a CEN
trail figure in the rebellion since that
day when Aquilles Cerdran shot down
the chief Of police of Cabrera in Pueb-
la and the war flashed forth.
He tells of a red reign of terror in
Mexico, the slaughter of Americans,
Germans and Spaniards, the mutilation
Of women in the streets, the bayonet-
ting of children and the destruction of
foreign property
There is no quarter" says Captain
Marston "They kill and pillage indis-
criminateIy. II the federals take
town, they put it to the sword; if the
rebels gain the upper hand, they do
the same thing. And the cry with
which they spur on their lust madness
is: "Mueren los linchadores, mueren
los Americanos, mueron los Gringos
death to the lynchers, death to the
Americans, death to the Gringos).'
81 Americans Slain.
How they hate the AFRICANS ana
up here they can them the little brown
brother and think that the United
states interests and her citizens are
safe in that land. That just shows what
the country really knows about the
Mexican situation. Are murdered
Americans-S7 of them to date-proof
that the Mexcans love us? Is our flag
dragged through the streets an midi
cation Of affection? When not killed
outright, Americans are subjected to all
manner Of insult and abuse. The wom-
en- are called vile names in the hotels
or on the streets, and not a hand is
lifted in remonstrance.'
Captain Marston was in Puebla the
night of the 18th and the morning of
the 18Th of July a year ago, when the
rebels stormed and attempted to take
the barracks and release the 300 pris
oners held in the penitentiary. With his
camera he went through the blood
blackened streets the day after the ter
rible night and made pictures of scenes
in Pueba. Cavalrymen and bandits
rode through the streets slashing the
dead On the sidewalks the fanatic
women with long knives hunted out the
living in the piles of dead and split
them from the chin down. They mock
ed at those who cried for water and
spat upon them. And everywhere
through the streets ran the eager ghouis
turning out the pockets of the dead,
chopping off the swollen fingers for the
rings. ripping the beads from the neck
for the sake of a silver crucitiN. Through
towns sacked and pillaged, the dead
banked on the sidewalks or rafting
through the streets in carts. the pursuit
of the army took him. He saw the
burning CHATS where the dead We're
thrown and incinerated unmourned and
unknown.
Barbarities Still Going On.
He emphasized the fact that these
barbarities are still being perpetuated
in southern Mexico At several places
he saw men crucihed and then soaked
in oil and burned alive
They are still burning men alive
down there women and children too,
he said
Our women and children of our race.
The Spaniards are suffering heaviest
because they are in the greatest numbey
Of any of the foreign races perhaps.
Ii is often necessary for Americans to
deny their own country and claim to be
Englishmen in order to escape violence.
l usually pass for an Englishman my
self
THE awful part of it is the utter
callousness of the men doing the butch
cry. Time after time they have stop
ped the torture and mudlation of some
man or woman and. hands stiu bloody,
come running after me to take a pic
ture of them at their work They
would pose with their knives thrust
into their helpless victims.
What Happened to a Texan.
"Oh. haven't / heard the poor devils
pray to God and me to help them. and
they. with flesh quivering and raw red
gaunts where then eyes had been BUT
couldn't help them 1 saw one man
try il. He was Texan and a hard
unlettered man
The street in Puobla was packed
with Mexican rebels. and American
women were dragged into tile street and
lnsulted one woman's clothes were
stripped from her and she was kicked
and spat upon
We'll says this long Texan, here's
where | so ON long "trip
with that he goes down into his
/ pocket and hugs gun out on the seem
I cry Ten of them he took with him for
1t was one of those magazine reyolvers.
he died hard and swearing and tho
butchers had 60 content themselves