Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-01
President Said to be
Framing Details Of Sit
uation for Report.
NO DAY DEVELOPMENTS
Mrs. John Lind Aids Two Flee
ing Legislators by Hiding
Them in Stateroom.

! Washington, D. c., Nov. There
was discussion today in official circles
os the possibility that President Will
son might send a message to congress
giving a detailed report of what has
occurred since he last informed con-
gress on the Mexican situation. There
was no indication at the White house
OF such a plan.
Secretary Bryan said there was no
change in the Mexican situation. He
conferred with the president, after
which he started for Maryland to ad-
dress the voters.
New York, Nov. 1.-The steamer
that arrived last night from Vera Cruz
with Mrs. John Lind, wife of Pfesi-
dent Wilson's special envoy, brought
also two Mexican legislators who owe
their liberty. if not their lives, to her
quick wit and generosity To save the
two Mexicans from arrest at Vera
Cruz Mrs. Lind hid them in her state
room and sat up all night on deck until
the officers of the Huerta 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 Huertas
agents searched for eight rebelious
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 arrest1sxzna.-@, ys.rssss-. 49,.
4 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 Huer-
ia.
MRS. LIND TELLS STORY.
Mrs. Lind said that her husband had
expected to come home after the Mex
ican 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 o'clock the afternoon of
Oct. 90 Then Captain Huff was sub
poenaed to testify regarding the flight
of DR.. Francisco Vasquez Gomez, who
sailed on the MORO Castle five months
ago.
I'VE learned later that the real rea-
son for our detention was that the gov
ernment wished to search the ship for
eight legislators from he city of jail
apa. They arrested six of these men,
: but they didn't find the others.
'Tll tell you why.
= while the search was going on the
friends of these two men learned that
l was aboard, and they came with tears
, in their eyes begging me to help them.
| said, Here's the key to my stateroom
Take it
o That. was all they needed. | spent
e the night on deck and the two men
e hid in my room until the detectives
:. gave up the search and went ashore
Then the ship was released and we
a sailed"
AIDED BY OTHER AMERICANS.
20 Mrs. Lind is = little woman with
!, quiet manners and a low voice; but
= her eyes flashed as she asserted:
Il couldn't bear to think of these
= men being taken ashore and hanged
!. just had to do something for them.
Two other Americans aboard The
- MORO Castle, George Hebron and Johr
= Kane. employees of the American
: Smelling and Refining company, alsC
~ had an experience with Dominique;
and Cordera. There were rumors tha
Huerta's agents remained aboard.
= The first night out of Vera Cruz, Mr.
- Hebron said, Dominguez burst into mi
= stateroom yelling in Spanish:
:. They're after nae, They're af;e
ls mel
L MEXICAN TROOPS ON DECK.
Hebron ran on deck and into tn
arms of squad OF Mexican soldiers.
Are You an American?' they de
manded. Hebron said he was. ant
they made no attempt TO detain him
When | returned TO my stateroom,
a said the American. Il found Dominique
is inside with the door barricaded"
Of The soldiers left the ship at Progres
OF So Through L. c. Frisbie. an Amel
to ican who was returning home afte
,e- thirty years residence in Mexico. tn
1e two Mexican deputies said they owe
th their escape, also to the fact that III
ae Mexican Law does not permit the al
rest of a member OF the legislature o
lie an ordinary warrant The six deputie
by taken off the steamer at Vera, Cru
d. were held on summonses from the dii
trict Judge charging rebellion, but n
Of such summons had been issued fo
d Dominguez and Cordera and by insis
On ing on their rights they gained time I
be hide in Mrs. Lind's stateroom.
"a AGAINST AMERICAN MEDIATION.
ey These men insisted that while cond
tons in Mexico were chaotic, interfe