Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-01
u. s. TAKES ACTION
HuERTA SOLDIERS ARE ARREST,
Ed FOR woUNDiNG AMERI-
CAN OFFICIAL.
WOUNDED YANKEE RELEASED
Immigration Inspector Dixon Wounded
by Federal Troops at Juarez, Mex,
Finally Permitted to Return to FL
Paso After Washington Demand.

Ell Paso. Tex. July 29--Following
she demand made By American Consul
h. d. Edwards. the Mexican federal Of
metals at Juarez. Mex, released
Charles b. Dixon, Jr.. the United
states immigration inspector who was
shot in ths back on Saturday by Next
can federal troops at Juarez, Mex,
Mr.. Dixon was taken to hospital at
TEL Paso. Tex
The demand OF Consul Edwards was
in vigorous language. The consul said
relative to reparation:
81 do not merely request the arrest
of these men, but In the name OF the
United States government. which !
have the honor to represent. demand
their Immediate punishment for this
crime. My government viii hold the
military authorities of Juarez per-
sonaily responsible for failure to obey
this command"
Arthur Walker, the negro who Dixon
was Investigating when he WAS ar
rested. and the soldiers who made the
arrest were hmm ediately placed IN
Jail. according TO the report OF Colonel
Castro, commanding the Juare2 garri-
son, TO F. w. Berkshire, supervising in
spectcr of immigration for the United
States on fhe Mexican border
Dixon was released TO Mr.. Berkshire
and brought 10 Ell Paso to hospital,
where his physicians believe he will
recover.
When the Mexican soldiers had APP
pretended Dixon they marched him
to the suburbs OF the city instead of
the military barracks or city hall
This, according TO Dixon's statement,
gave rise to the suspicion that he was
going to be executed AS matter of
MISREPRESENTATION, he declared, he took
tx fight and became the target of
naS-y buIieIa
Wounded. he was taken to the
JuaTez hospital by ais captors. and
there. under . military guard of three
soldiers, he was kept from Saturday
afternoon UNFIT late Sunday, when he
was removed To Ell Paso.
Indignation at the Mexicans runs
high in FL Paso, and the treatment ac-
corded Dixon has strained relations In
this city between Americans and Mex
Ssans as has no other incident attend
ant upon the present revolution.
Washington. July 29.-The shooting
and serious wounding of United States
Immigration Inspector Charles b.
Dixon by Mexican federal troopers at
,Juarez while Mr. Dixon was perform
ing his official duties has aroused the
administration to rapid action and has
further complicated the problem Presi-
dent Wilson has before him of deter
mining what Is TO be the policy of the
United States toward Mexico.
There were other developments in
the last 81 hours which have muddled
the already thoroughly mixed and
acute relations of the United States
toward Mexico. These developments
were.
u was not unti1 Sunday that the ad.
ministratfon received am official report
on the shooting OF Inspector Dixon.
The state department received a re-
port from the American consul at
Juarez. Thomas Edwards, and Secre-
tary of Labor Wilson received an &C.
count of the shooting of immigration
Inspector Berkshire, in charge OF the
Ell Paso district. Both were laid be-
fore the president. who had with him
the general report made to Secretary
of State Bryan by Ambassador Wilson.
Both official reports corroborated
the press dispatches.
Secretary Bryan telegraphed Consul
Edwards 70 demand Of the command
ants Of the garrison at Juarez that the
officer and men connected with the
shooting be arrested at once. Mr..
Edwards was instructed to further de-
mand that the men be held until their
testimony can be taken by the consul
This is an unprecedented step. II is
unusual for American eonsuls to ex.
anime foreigners charged with the
commitment OF a crime on an Ameri.
gan
This testimony will be used by the
state department in carrying It's de-
mand to HHerta for the punishment At
once Of the officer, half-breed negro
and his mon
The United States government also
demanded the immediate release of
Charles Bisseil and Bernard McDop.
aid. mining managers, imprisoned nv
federal soldiers at chihuahua Citv
and said To be threatened with exec,,'
tiou.