The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-11-06
AIDS TWO REFUGEES
MRS. LIND SAVES MEXICAN LEG
IsLATons BY HIDING THEM
IN sTATERooM.
SHIP HELD UP AND SEARCHED
Huerta's Detectives Arrested Six, But
Pair Hidden by Wife Of Wilson's
Envoy Evaded capture-47 Police
Killed by Rebels.

New York, Nov. S.--Mrs. John Lind,
wife Of Wilson's special envoy to Mex
leo, arrived here on Friday on board
the steamer MORO Castle. Two Mexi.
can legislators also arrived. and the
owe their escape and possibly their
lives TO the quick wit OF Mrs. Lind.
To save the two MeXicans from ar
rest at Vera Cruz Mrs. Lind hid them
in her stateroon and sat up all night
on deck until the officers Of the Huer-
ia government had gone ashore and
the boat had left port.
A week ago the cables brought word
that the liner MORO Castle had been
detained at Vera Cruz while Huerta's
agents searched for eight rebellious
members Of the legislature Of Vera
Cruz. Until the Moro Castle arrived
at New York only those aboard knew
that two OF the eight deputies" had
escaped arrest
These two, Adolfo Dominguez and
Miguel A. Cordera, say they will stay
in New York until Mexico becomes a
safer home for the opponents OF
Huerta.
Mrs. Lind said that her husband
had expected TO come home after the
Mexican election. Now she didn't
know when he would come.
I'VE expected that the Moro Castle
would sail from Vera Cruz" said Mrs.
Lind, "at four o'clock the afternoon
of October 23. Then Captain Huff
was subpoenaed to testify regarding
the fight of DR.. Francisco Vasquez
Gomez, who sailed on the Moro Cas-.
tie five months ago.
I'VE learned later that the real rea-
son for our detention was that tho
government wished to search the ship
for eight Legislators from the City Of
Jalapa. They arrested six Of these
men, but they didn't find the others.
"Ill tell you why"
while the search was going on
the friends Of these two men learned
that was aboard, and they came with
tears in their eyes begging me to help
them. l said Here's the key to my
stateroom. Take it,
That was all they needed. spent
the night on deck and the two men
hid In my room until the detectives
gave up the search and went ashore
Then the ship was released and we
sailed"
Il couldn't bear to think Of those
men being taken ashore and hanged.
Just had to do something for them"
Two other Americans aboard the
MORO Castle, George Hebron and
John Kane. employees OF the American
Smelling and Refining company, also
had an experience with Dominguez
and Cordera. There were rumors
that Huerta's agents remained aboard.
The first night out of Vera Cruz,
MT Hebron said. Domingues burst
into his stateroom yelling in Spanish:
They're after me! They're after
mel"
Hebron ran on deck and into the
arms Of squad of Mexican soldiers.
Are you an Americana" they de.
manded.
Hebron said he was. and they made
no attempt to detain him.
When l returned to my stateroom,"
said the American, Il found Domin.
guez inside with the door barricaded.
The soldiers left the ship at Pro
gresso.
Mrs. Lind said she and her husband
had received courteous treatment
everywhere in Mexico.
We had a very pleasant trip" she
said. Il don't remember any time
when we feared for our safey"
San Luis Potosi, Mex, Nov. "a
force of 600 revolutionists rounded up,
tortured and killed forty-seven of fifty
mounted policemen sent from this city
to protect ranch twenty miles to the
west. Many Of the mutilated bodies
were hung on trees. The three police.
men who escaped returned home.
Vera Cruz, Nov. 3.-Gen. Felix Diaz
and his companions put to sea on the
American battleship Michigan. Or
Progresso. Yucatan, they will be trans |
ferred to a New York and Cuba mail
steamship.
City Of Mexico, Nov. 3.-The Huerta
government was unable to meet its
pay rolls for the last ten days, making
part payment IN some departments
but deferring others entirely. 1t raised
funds after official hours, however, and
the paymasters to work all
night. If necessary, to pay all the men
Rumors are current that Huerta pur.
poses to tax all bank deposits.