The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-01
QUICK WIT OF MRS.
JOHN LIND MEANS
LIFE TO MEX|CANS
Two Fleeing Legislators
Saved by Wife of Ameri-
can Diplomat
SPENDS THE NIGHT
ON DECK OF SHIP
Said She Could Not Bear to Think
of the Two Men Being Hanged
After They Had Asked
Her for Aid


New York, october Sl.-The steam q
Moro Castle. which arrived tonight fp <.
Vera Cruz with Mrs. John Lind. q )
of President Wilson's special e, ~ q
brought also two Mexican legislator
owe their liberty, If not their lives
her quick wit and generosity. To save the
two Mexicans from arrest at Vera Cruz,
Mrs Lind hid them in her stateroom and
sat up all night on deck until the boat
left port and the officers of the Huerta
government had gone ashore.
A week ago the cables brought word
that the Ward liner Moro Castle had
been detained at Vera Cruz while Huerta's s
agents searched for eight reoellious mem
bers of the legislature of the state of
Vera Cruz. Until the MORO Castle ar
rived here tonight only those aboard
knew that two of the eight deputies
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 her husband had ex-
election. Now she did not know when
he would come.
I'VE expected the Moro Castle would
sail from Vera Cruz" said Mrs. Lind,
''at o'clock the afternoon of October 49,
Then Captain Huff was subpoenaed to
testify regarding the flight of DR.. Fran
cisco Vasquez Gomez, who had sailed on
the Moro Castle five months before.
Later We learned that the real reason
for our detention was that the govern
ment wished to search the ship for eighh
state legislators from the city of Jalapa.
They arrested six of these men, but they
didn't find the otllers-T'll tell you why
while the search was going on the
friends of these two men learned that
was aboard and they car~s with tears
in their eyes begging me to help them. I
said, here's the key to my state room.
Take it.
Spent Night on Deck
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 at 5
O'Clock the next morning.
The wife of the special envoy is a
house wfely little woman with quiet man
ners and low voice, but her eyes flashed
as she asserted:
''I couldn't bear to think of those men
being taken ashore and hanged. 1 just
had to do something for them"
Two other Americans aboard the Moro
Castle, George Hebren and John Kane
employees OF the American Smelling and
Refining company, also had an expert
ence with Dominguez and Cordera. There
We're rumors that Huerta's agents stayed
aboard until the ship reached Progresso
on the afternoon of October 25. The first
night out of Vera Cruz Mr. Hebron said
Dominguez burst into their state room
yelling in Spanish they're after me
they're after me-" Hebron ran on deck
and into the arms of a squad OF Mexican
soldiers.
Are you an American" they demanded
Hebron said he was and they made no
attempt to detain him. when | returned
to my staterooms," said Hebron ''I found
Dominguez inside with the door harri-
caded." The soldiers left the ship at
Progresso.
Frisbie as Interpreter
Through L. c. Frisbie, an American,
who was returning home after 80 years
residence in Mexico, the two Mexican
deputies said that they owed their es-
cape. Also to the fact that the Mexican
law does not permit the arrest of a
member of the state legislature on an
ordinary warrant The six deputies taken
off the steamer at Vera Cruz were held
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