Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-17
REVIEWS HIS
ASSURANCES
Carranza Says He Will
Make Every Effort to
Punish Outlaws ;. >.
WILL KILL CAPTlVES
WILL KILL CAPTlVES
To Issue Order Permitting Any Citi-
zen to Execute Murderers Without
Formally.

Ell Paso. Jan. 1.-THE body of Gen.
Jose Rodriguez, Villas cavalry lead
er, alleged to have been one of the
leaders in the Chihuahua massacre,
was placed on public exhibition today
in the yard of the Juarez customs
house.
The eruesome show was intended
to prove that the Carranza Govern
ment was determined to punish the
m lrderers of Americans and foreign
ers.
A placard on the executed bandit
leaders body announced that all en-
emies of the de facto government
would meet a like fate.
The death order was also carried
out when Gen. Manuel Baca Valles
and Enrique Cisneros, with eight fol-
lowers, were shot by Carranza fir
ing squad at Casas Grandes yester-
day, it was announced today.
Washington, Jan. 17.-Gen. Car
rama has renewed his assurance to
the United States that he would make
every effort to punish those respon-
sible for the murders of American
mining men near Santa Ysabel.
A dispatch from Consul Silliman.
to the State Department, dated at
Queretaro. said Carranza had per-
sonally assured Mr.. Silliman, in reply
to the departments demand that. the
murderers be run down, that he had
issued orders for the immediate pur-
suit, capture and punishment of those
responsible for the atrocity.'
simultaneously, in dispatch TO
Eliseo Arredonde. his, ambassador
designate. here, Gen. Carranza an
nounced that he was about to issue a
decree permitting any citizen of
Mexico to execute any Of the bandits
without formality."
Assurances thai "condign punish
ment" would be visited upon the mur-
derers already had been given the
State Department through Mr.. Ar
redondo. Whether formal note from
Carranza is to follow has not been
revealed
Carranza's telegram to his en-
bassy here follows:
"The government, under my direc-
| tion, has adopted every necessary
measure to insure the prosecution Of
an energetic campaign for the cap
ture and destruction of the party OF
Villista bandits. and to continue the
same to its complete accomplishment
I have asked Gen. Jacinto B. Trevino.
commanding the Constitutionallst
troops in the neghhorhood of the as
sassinations. to obtain for me the
names of the assailantS in order that
a decree may be issued placing then
outside the pale of the law. When this
done any citizen or citizens of the
republic will have the right to arrest
the guilty parties without other war
rant, and to execute them without
formality.
"Similar DEGREES were issued ant
executed in the cases of assaults anc
dynamiting of trains in another sec
| ton of the republic within the year
notably when a passenger train wa!
dvnamited. and its passengers as
. saulted near Apixaco and again neal
. Jalapa. These decrecs are made ef
. fective because in the opinion of tn
government those who perpetrate suci
assassinations of human beings, b.
the victims native MeXicans or fore
. ieners. must be considered in exactl.
The same category as thos who dvna
mite the railway trains. sincerel.
deplore the objectionable crime a
Santa Ysabel."