Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-23
Another Is Taken Into CuSto-
dy and Threatened With.
ExecutioTti One Spanish
American Killed.
BRITISH SUBJECT ALSO
THOUGHT TO BE DEAD
Trouble Said TO Have Arisen.
When Refugees Cut Wire.
Fence and Were Told to.
Halt.

I tsf HoNNiN0 JOURNAL SPECIAL WtNu
| Douglas, Ariz.. June f2.-Two for
/ eigners one an American, were killed
Tuesday in a fight between three ref
ugees attempting to reach the border
and thirteen Mexican soldiers at Glen.
/ ega Fria, eight miles east Of Arizpe
! Sonora, according to an official tele.
gram received late today at Agua
can commander The telegram was
! believed by persons here to confirm
earlier reports from Nacozari and
Arizpe that Jim Parks, 45 years OF
age, an American, and A. II. Dickson
British subject, were the men who
had been killed
The third refugee. who was taken
fled as Norton Hand. a citizen of the
| United States. He is being held at
Naeozari, seventy-five miles south OF
the border on a charge of homicide,
according To messages from Mexican
officials there. one report said he
already had been ordered executed,
but this could not be confirmed.
AIcANdH SoluftF hHIcU.
one Mexican soldier was killed and
another wounded in the fighting, ac-
cording to the official report to Gen
eral Gales
This report stated the three men
We're noticed by Mexican civilians
While cutting wire fence on ranch
at Cienega Fria and that they were
told to stop by the Mexlcans. When
they failed to do so, the commander
of the Arizpe garrison was notified
and he sent a squad of thirteen sol
diers to escort the foreigners to the
garrison.
Refugees Won't Halt.
The report said the soldiers over
took the refugees after they had cut
their way through the fence. Believ
ing them possibly TO be cattle thieves,
the officer in command called for the
fleeing2 men TO halt. Instead, it was
claimed, they replied by opening fire
with revolvers, killing one ana wound
ing another soldier.
The return fire of the Mexicans, it
adds, killed one man and fatally
wounded another The third man es-
capped
Hand was arrested after he had en-
tered the town of NacoZari and while
he was in a barber shop. messages
said. According to Americans who
were in Nacozari at the time, Hand
stated he and his companions were
fired upon first by the soldiers when
the mules ridden by two of the men
British Consuis Confer.
G. G. Duncan, British vice consul
for northern Sonora, and Alexander
Baird Jr., British vice consul in Ari- !
zona began an investigation of the |
killing Of Dickson. They
held a long conference with General |
Gales at Aqua Prieta. Upon their re-
turn to Douglas they said Genera! |
Gales was making every effort to
earn the truth concerning the case. |
From other sources in close touch
with Investigations of the fight, it
vas asserted the British representa-
ives had urged that General Gales
lring either Dickson or his body TO
he border for identification. Gales
vas said to have promised to do this.
Hand and Parks had been on a
trip. Monday they re-
,eived advces to come to the United
states Americans reaching here said.
rhey passed the mine in which Dick
ION was part owner and persuaded
lin to accompany them.
Dckson's brother and family are at
PRESENT in San Francisco. Mrs. Parks
md young daughter are living here
relatives of Hand are said to reside
n Rincon. n. NJ