The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-13
WERE INVITED
INTO MEXICO
Americans Killed Asked to
Come into the Country
by Gen. Obregon
REPORTS CURRENT OF
ANOTHER MASSACRE

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1t Is Said in Chihuahua That 10 Ameri-
can Men and Two English Women
Were slain-Holmes, Survivor, Tells
Story of Attack
WASHINGTON. Jan l3. = The
killing of Bart Kramer, an American
by Mexican bandits was officially re
ported in dispatches to the state de-
partment today by Collector Cobb, at
FL Paso. The department was inform
ed that the band which killed the par
ty of Americans on Monday was com
manded by two former Villa colonels
Senator Sheppard of Texas today re-
ceived a telegram from Dr. c. c.
Young Of FL Paso stating that the
dead Americans had been invited into
the country by Gen. Obregon Sena-
tor sheppard said he would lay the
message before the state department.
President Wilson told Senator Shep-
pard today that the Americans had
been specifically warned to keep out
of Mexico, IN reply to a suggestion
from the senator that the situation
was serious.
Senator Sheppard said the President
/ did not say what further action would
be taken.
4 Eliseo ArredoDdo. Gen. Carranza :
ambassador here. delivered to Secre-
ltarv Lansing TODAY a letter saving he
:. deeply deplores the dastardlv action
Iof the Villa forces and giving as
isurances that the Carranza governments
will act at once to remedy the situa-
tion.
Senator Lewis, Democrat, introduced
a resolution to empower the President
to use the army and navy to restore
order in Mexico, as had been done in
Haiti and Nicaragua. He asked that
it lay over without action, however,
and there was no further debate at
that stage.
IL FA0O, IeNas' Jan. "a re,
port was current IN Chlhnahua thaf ~
American men ana TWO Enghsh women
had been Killed by villa troops at
MADEIRA, Chihuahua, according TO
Americans who arrived here early to-
day with the BODIES OF the Is Amen
cans who were killed Monday.
) The report, however, could not be
confirmed.
One of the women reported killed
was said to be the wife of Capt. Jack
Leftbridge, retired British army off
: Ger, who with an English woman com
panion. . Mrs Berry, had been staying
at ranch on the Hearst property
Mexican officials at Juarez were un
) able to confirm the report that i
) Americans and two English women ha6
5 been murdered at MADEIRA They saiC
, troops were being despatched TO that
place
Pablo Lopez, a Yadui chief. and Gen
J Reyna. two villa generals led tho MOI
l who assassinated a oroup of American
miners on Monday near Santa Ysabel
Mexico and the massacre Tyos con,y,it
/ ted close in the wake of . Carranz.
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= gathered IN HI paso Tayos los+ ,,;obt
: Statements made 1as+er5oy hv |
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z +t,o ,,,osso,ro +o,1- loco
:, Condnetor Gardona IN an aAidavi
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n hua said that the train bearing TIL
# Anaor;nans v-as etonned nv deroile
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n mo- NO Corrarra +roons The Conduct
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