The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-01
BY BERNARD RUCKER.

(St0f Correspondent United PreSs.)
VERA CRUZ, May LIN desper.
ate effort to unite all political factions
and organize his defenses to resist
the United States Dictator Huerta
has. released ak - =. .stsayS SqSs in
( Mexico City, according to advfces re.
ceived here. today. The men set at
liberty include sC-eral congressman
who opposed the dictator.
Iuerta addressed the prisoners in
person, according TO reports here, de-
claring:
I'VE are now brothers. facing the
common enemy, the American in
yaders"
At the conclusion OF Huerta's
speech. the freed men were furnished
with funds and, sent 10 all parts OF
Mexico TO spread the propaganda OF
the dictator.
Huerta has seized the saloons in the
capital in order that ne may furnish
his soldiers with liberal supply OF
hquor in hope of keeping them loyal
10 him, according to message re-
ceived here by the captain of the
French cruiser Conde. Earlier re-
ports that the people OF the capital
also borne out in this message, which
declares Huerta is believed TO have
-.saatla--alls arrangements for flight in
case of an outbreak.
Consul Canada and other American
officials here today, we're anxiously
awaiting some additional word from
Zacatecas where Dr. Edward w. Ryan,
of Scranton, Pa. is said To be In
danger Of execution as a spy Gen.
Medino Barron, military governor OF
Zacatecas, Is said to have ordered
that DR.. Ryan be shot because of his
refusal to translate state department
codes declared TO have been found on
his person.
Or. Ryan has been engaged in Red
Cross work in the revolutionary dis
tricts of Mexico for several years.
American authorities here declare
that he has been of great value to
the state department In furnishing in
formation as to the true conditions IN
Mexico, but declare IL inconceivaole
that the physician should be adjudged
a spy. The Mexican federals charge,
II is said, that he has been working
in the interests OF Felix Diaz.
The same messages bringing re-
ports of the arrest and sentencing or
DIR. Ryan declare that Augustus Is.
Emery. of Boston, and Charles A.
Smith. a British subject, are being
held for ransom by the federals IN
Zacatecas. Emery is the manager,
and Smith the engineer of the La re
mine. located at Guadeloupe. The
ransom demanded is $SS,0Vj. Emerys
wife escaped with several other EN-.
Moves of the mine, but messages said
~ have been sent to Mexico City de-
clare that Emery and Smith Will De
held until the money demanded, oe-
clared to be necessary to suppor.
workmen while the mine Is smut
down, Is forthcoming.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Unit
ed States government made strenuous
efforts today 70 obtain connrmation
or denial of reports that DR.. Edward
p Ryan. OF Scranton, Pa. was 10 DC
shot today by Mexican federals a.
Zecatecas, because he was a spy
for this government.
The administration was greatly con.
cerned over the report. DR.. Ryan mas
been the confidential agent OF TINS gov
eminent for some time, but there mas
been no more attempt TO conceal TINS
fact than to conceal that o'Shaugh-
nessy Was the state departments rep
resentative in Mexico City. The state
department has communicated with
the Brazilian ambassador and mas
told him very frankly that DR.. Ryan
must be protected at all hazards. AS
our representative in Mexico City. the
Brazilian ambassador there has been
requested 70 emphasize to Huerta di-
}rectly that DR.. Ryan is an American
citizen who rs entitled to a fair trial
OF any charges brought against him
and who must be treated with the Ut
most respect pending such trial.
While the state department Is anx-
1Coufinued ON Pare SevenD.