El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-27

II he is guilty Of a NloldtlOH VI 'iiS
neutrality laws so is Mexican consul
Llorente was the declaration of L L.
; Charpentier in the county Jail Thursday
morning to a Herald reporter. CharPen-
tier further declared that he was now.
in the county Jail because Llorente re
\ fused to nav him money on contract
/ for blowing up Mexican Natlohal
bridges.
"In pursuance to an agreement, SAID
! Cbarnaptie- u made with the Mexican
! consul on Julv s. I caiieC on the conSul
( tbe folIoxyino afternoon, accompanied
/ by H R Mcdonald and JACK NooIidH-
| There were present at TINS time "nSu
4 the contract which we mace Win IIe
| co1sI,1 rs again repeated for the ben
| eff Of nv two companions, the consul
| Alberto Madero. and Felix Summerfeldt
| Mcdonald and d. J. Mahoney, VINO were
arrested at Douglas, VIII pear me ,,,, out
| in all that 1 am going to say Ihey
: were witnesses to the agreement, haV-
| ing gone into the transaction with
Saws Contract Called For $500.
THE contract that 1 made with the
MEXICAN consul at that time, and which
was fully explained to Mcdonald ana
| Mabonev was TO the effect that each
| of US were to receive $500 ana expenses
per month. In consideration OF TINS
JiJarez and Chihuahua The federals
did not want the rebels to know what
they were doing, and the time they eA-
Dected to arrive in JuareZ- Ihat agree
ment was in Spanish, but read span
ish and / read it to the fellows. After
reading It we all signed. Alberto Ma
dero and Summerfeldt were witnesses
The afternoon before when consul
Llorente and 1 practically agreed on
the proposition, Alberto Madero was
there. and he shook hands with me
In the agreement was included
clause whereby we waived all our
rights as American citizens. and in the
event we were captured by the rebels
or the United States authorities we
soIemnly promised LlOrente to keep his
name out, and to shield him in every
way.
1LIorente gave me $55O.25 to purchase
arms. ammunition, horses and other
equipment for the undertaking. He
said at the time: Use your own meth
DDS in getting the equipment across,
and be very careful Of the United States
authorities. Above all things, should
YOU be taken by the United States au-
thorities, do not implicate me-
eff 7 have committed any violation
Of the neutrality laws. LIorente is just
as guilty as I am. That was, all in the
agreement 1 have protected the Mexi-
can consul all the way through. I told
him that would do this. But he has
not done the fair thing He has not
paid me what he owes me on the con-
tract
Purchased Arms Here.
'Llorente has the bills for the equip
ment I purchased for the trip. You
see, when he gave me the S55O.25 he
charged me with that much. He gave
me this amount Of money with which
to make the necessary purchases.
II purchased from Sheiton-Payne
three 30-40s one so Z. s. special. one
Smith & Wesson, 500 rounds Of 1910
ammunition, 100 rounds for 80 special;
from Krakauer. York & Moye I bought
so rounds of ammunition. The horses,
saddles and other equipment I pur-
chased at different places The bills
for theammunition and arms were made
out on the letterheads of the firms
These I paid, and took to LlOrente so
that could get credit for the amount
Llorente complained because took him
only the single bill He asked me why
I did not get it in trfplicate as he
wanted to send one to Mexico City
When we were talking the PROPOSE
ton over in the Mexican consulate, Al
berto Madero and Llorente suggested
that when we came to the cutting or
the wires, we should take some copper
wire. climb the poles and ground the
circuit In this way they said we could
avoid cutting the wires. Llorente also
told US at the time that II we got hard
pressed and had to retreat, to go to
Casas Grandes. He said about the time
we got there the federals would have
the place Alberto Maderc asked me
when I thought We would make the
first cut as he wanted to get some Of
his friends out of Chihuahua before we
did it. I told him that we would make
the first cut on the following Thurs
day.
Returned For Dynamite.
Somehow the news of what we were
going to do leaked out. for the first
place we struck after crossing we met
a patrol of rebels. The dynamite we
had washed away in a rain storm.
However, we went from Bauche to Sam
alayuca. All the bridges were of steel
and we could not blow them without
dynamite.
Il came back to Juarez on June 16
to get some more dynamite, and then
went back. 1t was q fight from start
to finish. We underwent the severest
kinds of hardships, going for many
days without food. Finally we were
compelled to retreat to San Bias, which
is an old copper mine From here Moo
nan and made our escape and came to
Ell PasO. That was on. July 2. ] called
on the Mexican consul and told him of
the predicament we were in being
without money. Mcdonald and Ma
honey were cut off at San Bias. and I
wanted enough money so that I could
go back and get them out. 1 told the
consul that if he would advance it !
would carry out the agreement. He
refused to give me any more money.
days On the morning of July 1 was
on my way to see the Mexican consul
to make another appeal to him for
money to rescue the boys at San Bias.
I had reached the Sheldon hotel corner
when I was arrested by rangers Web
ster and Moore. Webster said that I
was arrested on instructions from Ross.
That Nas about IL o'clock In the morn
ing. I was taken to ROss's office in the
fedora! building, and there I remained
until o'clock that afternoon. 1 told
Ross that if he had any charges against
me to prefer them He said that he
was awaiting the arrival of further
testimony and witnesses. These I am
convinced were furnished by the Next
can consul.
Promise of Immunity.
Ross took me into divers office.
There was no one present He prom
ised me immunity if I would make
able TO the everlasting and righteous in 7
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