Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
PROBE IS BEGUN
INTO SEIZURE
Of BODY
Border Commander Ordered to
See That Reported Raid by
Rangers Isn't Repeated
Continued From Page I.

''stampeded" by the sensational re-
ports telegra phed from the border,
and sat tight on the Mexican lid
The President intmated that he
had received official advices that
Mexican officials had consented to
| the removal of Vergara's body, al
though the administration had no
knowledge in advance of plans for
getting Vergara's remains
1t is understood the President
wants complete statement from
Governor Colquitt of Texas, but be-
lieves there are no complications in
sight at present.
Alarm High at First.
Alarm over the Mexican situation
ran high in Government circles Tor
many hours o-day, following the re-
ceipt of dispatches from the border
stating that party Of Texas Rangers
had invaded Mexico and had recov-
cred the body of Vergara, the Ameri
can hanged by Federal troops near
Hidalgo.
Belief that intervention in Mexico
would be forced by the methods of the
Texans was frankly expressed IN
many quarters, but the excitement
was quelled in great measure by the
receipt of the following dispatch from
Governor 0. B, Colquitt, of the Lone
Star State:
Captain John B. Sanders, COM
handing Company B, Texas Rangers,
at Laredo, advises me by telegraph
that he has recovered the body Of
Clemente Vargara.
Body Secretly Delivered.
Il wired him for full particulars. He
advises me that he did not go into
Mexico at all but was Informed that
the body of Vergara would be deliV
cred on the Texas side OF the river at
a placed named at $3.50 o'clock sun
day morning. He went there and
found it.
LAS TO who brought 1t across the
river he says he does not know. He
said he had no assistance in this mat
ter from the family and relatives Of
Vereara. who, however, fully identi-
fed the body
Secretary of State Bryan returned
early to-day from his trip to Spring
field Mass, and Immediately took the
helm at the State Department, where
Assistant Secretary Osborne had
been in charge during the absence of
his chief. Mr. Bryan Immediately
sent a long cipher dispatch TO United
State Consul Garrett at Laredo, ask
ing for a full report on the case.
Secretary Bryan refused 20 discuss
the recovery of Vergaras body.
One of the fears expressed here to-
day was that the reports of armed
| Texans crossing tine border might re-
| suit in attacks on helpless Americans
! in Mexico. Both President Huerta
and General CarranZa have made 1t
| plain that their followers would resist
American invasion to the last often,
and the ConstitutiOnalist leader mas
intimated that any movement into
Mexico from this country would re-
suit in the termination Of factional
hostiities in the southern republic,
in order TO present united front
against the common enemy.
Governor Colquitt's statement, pre-
senting a denial from Captain SAN
ders of the reports that he had in
vaded Mexican territory, Gained In
great mea sure the fears at the State
Department. but it is. nevertheless,
admitted that the effect of the early
reports in Mexico might have serious
consequences and result in retalla-
tory action against Americans.
1t is understood that message was
sent to Charge O'Shaughnessy in
Mexico CITY asking him to make the
situation clear to the Mexican Gov
eminent,