Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-03
(By United Press Associations)


Bowen of the department of justice
has started for Mexicali to investigate
the deaths of Encarnacion Sanchez
and Jose Valfit, American vitizens
reported shot under the "Ley Fuga'
fugitive law there New Years day
1t is reported they were shot by Mex
lean soldiers. Sanchez went to MeXi-
cali in search of his daughter.
That Encarnason Sanchez, Of Los
Angeles, and his companion, a man
named Jose, were executed New Years
eve by Mexican soldiers at spot six
or seven miles southwest Of CaleXico
and that an attempt was made at the
same time to execute Flores, was prov
en- this afternoon when the dead bodies
of Sanchez and Jose were found near
the place where they were reported
killed, states the CaleXico Chronicle.
The discovery of the bodies was made
by immigration Inspector George w.
Webb, r. f. Wells of the Chronicle and
Dan Sherman, a ranch hand.
Webb had made three previous trips
searching for the dead men, but had
not on either of the other trips been
able to find the location of the crime.
Before leaving in the afternoon he
and Flores made a drawing of the
country where the execution took
place. By following these directions,
after several hours of hard riding,
and tracking, evidences of the deadly
deed of the Mixicans were found. Eff
forts had been made at concealment
by dragging over the ground with
brush, trying to efface the marks of
the soldiers and the blood spots where
the executed men bled.
The bodies had been removed and
hidden at a distance from the spot
and three trails had been made to mis-
lead those who might attempt an in
vestigation.
Each of the Webb party took one
of these trails. After tracking for
about one hundred and fifty yards
Wells came on the bank of the river
and below him he saw a pile of brush
and fresh loose dirt. He called the
other men and on removing the cover
ing they found the bodies of the miss
ing men. Webb knew Sanchez we'll
and positively identified the body as
the man who called at his office We'd
nesday and stated that he was going
to Mexicali to search for his daughter.
Substantiating the story of the
shooting of three MeXicans by fed
eral soldiers, as published in the Press
of last evening, the CaleXico Chronicle
of this morning has the following to
say:
ga Mexican named Encarnason San
chez appeared at the office of Immi-
grafton Inspector Webb Wednesday
morning with the information that he
was naturalized American citizen
living in Los Angeles and that he had
learned he had daughter who was
an inmate of a Mexicali sporting
house and that he was on his way
to endeavor to induce her to return
home. He made an official report of
the case to Inspector Webb and stated
before he left the United States that
he would return that afternoon and
report. He has never returned, but
the following morning another MeXi-
can, named Pablo Flores, appeared in
Calexico with flesh wound over his
left breast and through his left arm.
'He told that he, in company with
Sanchez and another Mexican, named
Jose, had been arrested Wednesday
in Mexicali and after short hearing
before the subprefecto had been
turned over to the military authori-
ties and were supposed to have been
ordered sent to Ensenada. He says
that he protested that he was an
American citizen, but the subprefecto
is said to have made the statement
that all Mexicans who got into trou-
BILE in Mexicali made the same claims
and no attention was paid to his
claimed citizenship of the United
States. He says that he and the two
other prisoners were taken from Mex
icali in company with a small de.
tschment and started upon theil
march to Ensenada, but that wher
about three miles from Mexicali they
turned into a by-road and the officers
claimed to have lost their directions
"Here the mems hands are said t(
have been tied and they were lined W
for execution. Flores, who escaped
says one man was shot and just as
they were firing at him he turned his
body to the executioner, so that hi.
bullet struck him over the heart an(