The Washington times., 1913-07-27

proceeded in the opposite direction to-
ward the hills, oayfng that they in
tended to shoot him for being an Ameri-
can army officer in Jusrez.
Was Twice Wounded.
Seeing that he was being led away
from the town soaJ toward the hills
where all the military shootings took
place, Mr. Dixon broke away, ran
around the corner of an adobe building
and down an alley. 1.-TWO shots were
fred. ;dne striking him in the foot and
the second piercing his body through
the middle.
The, wounded man lay for hours be-
fore given medical attention. Then he
was placed in a dirty hospital and a
Japanese nurse was placed in charge
of him. When F. W. Berkshire, chief
of the Immigration Service on the Mex
lean border, and Clarence Gorley. his
assistant, went to Juarez to see how
badly Dixon was hurt and to invest-
gate the shooting, they were arrested
and placed in fail.
Upon the protest Of the American
consul they were later released and
were allowed to take the wounded man
across the border.
.Pre-Arranged Plot Alleged.
cant by officials here as showing that
1t was a pre-arranged plot. is to the
effect that Mexicans called at the i'm
migration office in FL Paso yesterday
who said they had some information
partment had been investigating. and
asking that an inspector be sent across
the bord.f.
Inspector Dixon had hardly reached
Juarez before he was, arrested by the
Huerta soldiers and led to what he
thought was to be his execution.
Secretary of Labor Wilson is out
spoken in expressing his determine
ton to conduct rigid inquiry, not only
of the shooting Of Dixon, but Of the
arrest of Mr.. Berkshire, the official in
charge of the immigration service on
the border
Secretary of State Bryan withholds
comment in the absence of official adj
vices Of thu tragedy.
Official Report Lacking.
At the White House it was said that
nothing whatever in the shape Of an Of
fetal dispatch had been received from
Mexico, or from FL Paso, where indig-
running high.
LICSiuCHl !" hSOu piduIlCu u give Sew
eral hours this afternoon to the perusai
Of tho report made by Ambassador VIII
son on conditions in Mexico. He studied
the report late into the night, as did
Secretary of State Bryan. The Presi-
dent Is scheduled to have a conference
with Ambassador Wilson tomorrow, in
which he will endeavor to draw out
more information On Mexican affairs
from the private reports he and Secre-
tary bryan have received from in
vestigators on the ground.
Ambassador Wilson declares that he
has been met in a friendly spirit by
officials here. He had no complaint to
make OF the treatment accorded him
by President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan, but he severely criticised Will
liam Bayard Hale and Reginald H. del
Valie, who had been in Mexico, he
said, representing the Administration,
the latter equipped with the secret
code of the State Department. He de-
clared del Vale had gone to the Sec
rotary of the legation in Havana to
have the code deciphered for him
The American people are wholly mis-
informed as to conditions in Mexico.
the ambassador declares He said
that he would ask the President to
permit him to speak freely about con-
ditions in Mexico, so that the people
may become better informed as to Mex
lean affairs.