Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-07-06
U. S. SOLDIERS
GIVEN TO BELL
Troopers Captured at Carrizal
Battle Surrendered by
t Mexicans. 4
BOYD BLAMED BY SCOUT
Mormon Tells Of Fight and Charges
That American Captain Persisted
In Counting Danger--Troop-
ers Stoned by Mob.

Washington, July 1.-Private re-
ports reaching Washington from re-
liable source In Mexico City said Gen.
eral Carranza and his advisers had
decided to stand by orders to General
Trevino to attack American troops In
Mexico moving in any direction except
toward the border and that no way
was seen to avoid break with the
United States.
Ell Paso, Tex, July 1.-The %
troopers of the Tenth cavalry and
Lem III. Spillsbury. Mormon scout
were brought to the international
bridge at 3:15 o'clock in the after
noon. General Bell was waiting with
written receipt for their delivery.
The actual transfer was at 3:16
when General Bells receipt passed
into Mexican hands.
The actual return of the men to
American soil was delayed some time
after General Bell had given the re
ceipt, while they were given vine
gar bath at the immigration station,
abuttlng on the bridge near this side
All the clothes the men wore In
Mexico were thrown away and they
were freshly clothed.
Names Of Men Brought Back
The troopers brought here are:
Troop X. Fred williams. st. Louis
II. L. Floyd. Oklahoma City; Ser
geant Allen Peterson, Meridian,
Miss; Hoe Oliver. Brighton. Ala.
George Stone. Talladega, Ala; First
Sergeant Felix Page. Washington. D.
c.; VIII Harris. Atlanta, Ca; Samuel
Macdonald. Portersville. Tenn; Will
liam Gibbons, Chattanooga; James M.
Stokes. Atlanta; Harvey NJ. Lee, Co.
lumbus, o.; Elsa Graham, Smith
Grove, Tenn; Charles Marshall, Pasa-
,dena. Cal.
Troop G, Luther Alexander. Column
bia. Tenn; William Hogue. Raleigh,
N. c.; william d. Gibson. New York
Thomas @. Stricken. Louisville, Ky.
Trannie G. Hopping. Atlanta. ca.
John Wilson, Macon. Ca; John Cole
man. Jr. Walker Valley, Miss.
George NJ. Hopplns. Morristown, Pa.
Luther Alexander and Archie Jones
are suffering from wounds.
Present Sorry Sight.
The prisoners were dressed in nom
descript garb. While most of them
had had restored to them the larger
part of their uniforms, some were
without coats. one had incircled his
waist with towel. and practically
their heads instead of hats.
Spillsbury was dressed In white
duck suit. He appeared anxious. All
the troopers were worn and drawn
from their experience, and all were
serious save one. who wore broad
smile.
This one made himself the Inn
promptu spokesman Of his fellows.
1--WE sure are glad to get back" he
said.
Gen. Francisco Gonzales. Juarez
commander. and Andres Garcia, Mex
lean consul in FL Paso, met the train.
General Gonzales boarded the train.
A minute later he reappeared, fol-
lowed by the guard that had escort
ed the prisoners from Chihuahua.
They were taken to the disinfecting
plant and there stripped and treated
before being escorted to the CON-
mandancia.
At the commandment the troopers
refused to discuss the Carrizal fight,
their Imprisonment or their return to
the border.
Splllsbury was not SO uncommuni-
cative, however.
He entered the private office of
General Gonzales and there gave out
brief interview in which he repeat
ed statements he had been credited
with making at chihuahua by Gen.
eral Macinto Trevino.
These statements were to the effect
that Captain Boyd, commander of the
Americans at Carrizal, persisted In
advancing toward villa Ahumada to
recover a negro deserter after Gen.
Felix Gomez had warned him to turn
back and after Spillsbury had urged
him to accept this advice.
He said that after the second con-
ference between Captain Boyd and
General Gomez, when he advised
turning back. Captain Boyd said:
II am the commander, and 1t is for
you 10 obey"
Following the battle Spillsbury said
he and the other prisoners were taken
to villa Ahumada, where their hands
were tied and they were placed aboard
train.
They were stoned. he said. while
this was being done.
Stripped Of Clothing.
On their arrival at chihuahua,
where they arrived minus the great
er part Of their wearing apparel,
which had been stripped from them.
they were assaulted and stoned again.
Three Of tho negro troopers de-
slared that they were certain that sew
er-l of the American wounded left
IN the field Of battle at Carrizal sub
seQuently were killed by the Mexi.
.ans-
They said they had been robbed of
money and valuables. @h