The Sentinel=record., 1914-02-21
General Villa Announces That He Executed a Prominent British Subject and the Whole
 Border Flames Into Indignant Action.
Mass Meeting at Fl Paso Declares That State Department Has Concealed Facts and
 Calls Upon Congress to Investigate.

partment from our own consuls to the contrary.
 We recall in the last few months such cases as the assassination of Mir Burton at Santa Rosada, Mir Hayse and Mir Thomas at Madeira and Mr Brooks in northern Chihuahua, and ia every one of these cases they were most brutally muredered for no other reason than that they were American citizens
 Some months ago the state de- partment officially declared in one of it's messages to Mexico that it would hold the Mexican leaders personally responsible for outrages committed against Americans. The present mo- ment our government is harboring General Ynez Salazar, who has an un- broken record ever since he took the field in Mexico of outrages committed against our citizens. There are many citizens of this city who were cruelty and brutally treated by this man, many of whom have been held for ransom and at least one, Mir. Fountain, who was shot by his orde' and thus far he has been immune from all punishment by our govern ment.
 At the present moment Maxine Castillo, who for months has been at the head of an outlaw band in north ern Mexico, holding our citizens for ransom and perpetratilg all kinds Of outrages. whose band recently burned alive between fifty and sixty pas sengers in the Cumbre tunnel on the north western railroad is being given asylum and protection of our govern ment
 we submit these facts as evidence that our governemnt is, through weak and yaccillating policy encour- aging these Iawless leaders to com init all kinds of outrages against for eigners and doing a great injustce to our own people that is resulting ln loss of hundreds of millions of dol lars of foreign capital, the murder Of many of our citizens, the raping or American women and ruination or Mexico itself
 "The career of Francisco Villa, an outlaw and murderer for many years and who now is leading an arbitrary and despotic reign of terror over northern Mexico is more cruel and barbarous in his methods than any tvra2t in the worlds history IL ls |, fact that he has treated with con tamnt the representatives of all ma ,ions and that he does not hesitate to nut a man to death for the shgh' est cause and for in any way m curing his displeasure. We believe It disgrace to our government anu tbe American people to tolerate sucn man much less to give him moral support. therefore, be IL,
 'RBsoLvBD, that this message De sent to the president of the ohl'eu c,otos the British ambassador aI 1Wash;roton. to our United states senators with the request that It pc read into the congressional record a%Iu % we appeal to them and to all our representatives in both branches oi congress to adopt a resolution to com nal the state department to trahSii'Wi's W .o congress it's records pertaining to tbo outrages committed against Americans and foreigners in MeAioo and to take such action as VIII sl'I ou~ neople the protection guarahteeu tsan, rnder their constitutional rish' and to maintain the honor ana pres, t,no of our country in the eyes VI t,o word. We appeal to you to ihaNe ,-aomn ,re inc facts to the American pep nla and see that our citizens who are pving in Mexico and have ihveS'eo . tbeir money there in good faitn a, 'iieli tso nrotection that is justly
 Details of the Crime
 or Governor Geo. Curry ol >,an. mexico was to be the principal Saoa,,er tSv~ He was named a commit .Ie of one at an impromptu indisha t,on e meeting in the lobby of the no tnI t'J sheldon. headquarters of foreign foreign .s, m driven cut of Mexico, to inves ,igote the killing of Benton but hi' inquiries developed nothns no' "e