The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-03-13
AMERICANS SLAIN
Or TORTURED BY
THE MEX|CANS
Startling Revelations Made
BY Senator Fall on Floor
of the Senate.
SIXTY-FOUR ARE
AMONG DEAD
Outrages Perpetrated in Old
Mexico Since Revolu-
ton Began.

w ASf1lNGION, Marcn lU.-f16re Is
the list of "a murders and murderous
outrages perpetrated on American cit
liens since the beginning of the revo-
luton in Mexico, which was read on
the floor of the. Senate Monday by
Senator Fall, of New Mexico.
The list was prepared by Senator
Fall from private information and
with the aid of the State Department.
The list reads:
1. Mrs. Anderson, daughter and
neighbor boy, killed June %, 1911,
Chihuhua. Murderers arrested by as
sistance of Americans. Confessed,
served six months in Jail and released.
Madero soldiers.
ragged. No attempt made to punish
perpetrators.
3. James D. Harvey, killed when in
the State of Chihuahua, March, 1912,
and mutilated with a spade. Nothing
done.
4. William Adams, killed July 2,
1912, with his daughters arms around
him, by Mexican officer. Nothing
done.
5. Thomas Fountain, killed after
Court-martial by Salazar at Parral.
Madero and others threatened by
Taft. Nothing done Salazar later
arrested on this side, charged with
smuggling, and later released. Now
he is held at FIT. Bliss.
! 6. Joshua Stevens, killed when near
Colonia Pachecho, Mexico, August 26,
1912, when defending his daughters
from attack. The girls, one with a
stick, the other with a shotgun, drove
their assailants away.
Z. John Brooks, Texan, killed at
Colonia Chichupa, Chihuhua, in 1913.
s. Mathew Gourd and daughters,
assaulted when near Tampico, July 26,
1911.
9. Killing of Rogers Palmer, Eng,
lishman, because of failure to open
safe at Durango about June Is, 1913
10. Wounding Of Carlos Won Bran
dis and L. w. Elder, Americans, about
the same time, by explosion of bomb
used to force door where foreigners
had taken refuge. Foreigners com
PEELED to pay ransom.
IL. w. N. Stepp, American, shot
when he failed to pay 500 pesos.
IL. A. w. Lauralaut, British sub.
ject, stripped, beaten, shot and left for
dead.
13. Edmund Hayes, American, EN-.
ployee of MADEIRA Company; also
Robt. Thomas, negro killed at Ma
dera by Mexican Federal officer
Santa Cavaro. Demand was made by
Secretary Bryan on Federals, through
Embassy and Marion Letcher, for ar
rest and punishment. Nothing done
until September II, when Senator
Fall called the attention of the State
1 Department and President to the fact
that this officer was in Jaurez, five
minutes ride from Ell Paso. An officer
was arrested and later discharged.
IA. B. Stowe, shot when in Chihu
ahua by Rebels, 1912. Nothing done
Is. Benjamine Griffin, rancher
murdered July 5, 1913, when near
Chichupa, by bandits.
16. John H. Williams, mining en-
gineer, killed by stray bullet March
8, 1913, when Rebels attacked Naco
zari.
II. Boris Garow, consulting engi
] neer, killed when an attack was made
on Nuevo Buenavista, February IL
1913.
Is. U. G. Wolf, mining engineer
murdered July 16, 1913, by outlaws
in Northern Sonora.
10. Mrs. E. w. Holmes, killed by
shell during bombardment at Mexico
City, February, 1913.
20. Frank Ward, shot in back by
bandits when in his. home near Yago
} Topic Territory, April 8, 1913.
81. John S. Howard, United States
Customs Inspector, assassinated wheI
} near Eagle Pass, Texas, February 10
1913.
%. Pablo Soto, of Naco, Ariz., mer
} chant, killed by stray bullet during
conflict between Federals and Rebels
} March "a, 1913.
%. L. Bushnell, mounted police
killed when in Naco, Ariz., March "a
1913, by a stray bullet fired by Reb
els.
"a. Frank Howard, killed by ban
dts in Coalcomank, State Of Michoa
can. in March, 1913.
} rs. Herbert l.. Russell, manager o.
American Vice Consul McCaughan':
ranch, near City of Durango, murder
} ed by Rebels September, 20, 1912
Consul Theodore c. Hamm cable6
J report to the Department Of State.
26. Robert Williams, of Phoenix
Ariz., policeman, killed by Mexican
} bandits, who crossed the line to at
tend a celebration of Mexican indie
pendence Day in Phoenix, September
) 16, 1912. :,
81. Scott Price, bystander, killed
when bandits were firing on Williams
%. N. Matheson, aged and crippled
Mormon, killed while fleeing from
Colona Morelos, Sonora, September
16, 1912, when bandits were footing
town.
90. Mckenzie, an American resi-.
dent, executed near Aqua Prieta, Sep
TENDER, 1912, because the Rebels sus.