Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-11-01
Wife Of President Wilson'S
Special Envoy to Mexico
Saves Two Legislators From
Arrest by Huerta's S MinionS,
LITTLE WOMAN PASSES
ENTIRE NIGHT ON DECK
Steamer Detained by Ruse
While Soldiers Search for
Men Marked for Destruction
by Dictator

10Y aosuNG JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtaeI
Sew York, oct 3l.-The steamer
chat arrived tonight from Vera cruz
with Mrs. John Lind wife Of Prosi-
dent Wilson'S special envoy, brought
HIsu two Mexican legislators who owe
their liberty IL not their lives. 70 her
quick wit and generosity 10 save the
tWu MoXicans from arrest at Vera
cruz Mrs Lind hid them In her state
room and sat up all night on deck un-
tI the boat left port and the officers
off ihe lluerta government had gone
ashore
a week ago the cables brought word
chat the Ward liner, MORO Castle.
had been detained at Vera cruz. while
lIuertas agents searched for eight re-
helhous members of the legislature of
the state of Vera Cruz. Unul the
Morro Castle arrived here tonight.
only those aboard knew that two Of
the eight deputies had escaped ar
rest These two, Adolfo Dominguez
and Miguel A. Cordera, say they win
stay iu New York until Mexico be-
comes a safer home for the opponents
of Huerta
Mrs Lind said that her husband.
the special envoy had expected to
come home after the NeXican cleo
ton Sow she did mott know when he
would come
I'VE expected that the Moro Cas-
ne would sail from Vera cruz" said
Mrs Lind Eat 4 o'clock on the after
noon of October 49, Then Captain
HUFF was subpoenacd 10 testify re-
garding the flight of Dr Francisco
Nasquez Gomez. who had sailed on
the MORO castle five months before.
Later we learned that the real rea-
son for our detention was that the
government wished TO search the ship
Tor eight state legislators from Jalapa.
They arrested six of those men. but
they didn't find the others, and III
tell you why.
While the search was going on the
friends of these two men learned that
] was aboard and they came with
tears i'm their eyes begging me to help
them ! said, Here's the key to my
state room. Take it,
That was all they needed. l spent
the night on deck and the two men
hid in my room, until the detectives
gave up the search and went ashore.
The ship was released and we sailed
at o'clock the next morning.
The wife of the special envoy is a
houseWifely little woman with quiet
manners and a low voice; but her eyes
flashed as she asserted:
u 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 & Refining CO., also had an
experience with Dominguez and Cor
dera. There We're rumors that Hu-
ertas agents stayed aboard until the
ship reached progresso on the after
noon of october %. The first night
out of Vera Cruz Mr Hebron said
that pominsuez burst into their state
room yelling In Spanish They're
after mel They're after metz
Hebron ran on deck and into the
arms Of squad of Mexican soldiers.
Are you an American" they de-
manded.
Hebron said he was and they made
no attempt to detain him.
when l returned to my state
room said the American. Il found
Dominguez inside with the door bar
rcaded"
The soldiers left the ship at Pro-
grosso
Through L. c. Frisbie an American
who was returning home after thirty
years residence in Mexico, the two
Mexican deputies said that they owned
their escape also to the fact that the
Mexican law does not permit the ar
rect Of a member Of the state legisla-
ture on an ordinary warrant The
six deputies taken off the steamer at
Vera Cruz were held on summons
from the district judge charging revo-
lution, but no such summons had been
issued for Dominguez and Cordera
and by insisting upon their rights they
gained time to hide in Mrs Lind's
state room.
These men insisted that while CON
ditions in Mexico were chaotic inter
ference by the United States would
probably make matters worse. They
believed the quickest way to restore
peace in Mexico would be for the gov
ernment to grant amnesty to all re-
bells and hold a free election
Mr. Frisbie said that Mrs Lind was
the only person aboard, so far as he
knew, that approved Of President VIII
sons Mexican policy.
William Blair Flandrau, an Ameri-
can mining man, also expressed disap-
proval Of President Wilson'S attitude
Mr.. Flandrau and his wife are bound
Tor their home in st, Paul Mrs Lind
went TO spend the night at the Malta