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

in the Mexican rebellion, in the follow
ing story of Mexican atrocities, pub
Iished in today's Baltimore Sun, ex-
plains his presence in Baltimore. Cap
tain Marston-Senor Don Sailor Jack
the Mexicans call hm-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 mutiation
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 pllage indis-
criminateIy. II the federals take a
town. they put 1t 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 Grinsos
death to the lynchers, death to the
Americans. death to the Grinsos).'
81 Americans Slain.
How they hate the Amricans and
up here they call 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 ST of them to date-proof
that the Mexicans love us? Is our flag
dragged through the streets an indi-
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 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 Puebla. CaValryhen 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 ghouls
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 crucitiX. Through
towns sacked and pilaged, 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 were
thrown and incinerated unmourned and
unknown
Barbarities Still Going On.
He emphasized the fact that these
barbarities are stin being perpetuated
in southern Mexico. At several places
he saw men crucifed and then soaked
in oil and burned alive
They are stin 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 numbes
of any Of the foreign races, perhaps.
1t is often necessary for Americans TO
deny their own country and claim to be
Englishmen in order to escape violence
usually pass for an Englishman my
self"
The awful part Of il is the utter
callousness Of the men doing the butch
cry Time after time they have stop
ped the torture and muulatiou of some
man or woman and, hands still 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 Quiverng and raw red
gaunts where their eyes had been But
couldn't help them. ! saw one man
try it, He was Texan. and a hard,
unlettered man
The street in Puebla was packed
with Mexican rebels. and American
women were dragged into the street ana
insulted one womau's clothes were
stripped from her and she was kicked
and spat upon.
Well says this long Texan, here's