The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-25
DEAD ROT During
|. WATCHFUL WAITING
State Of 0axaca Bandit Ridden
Villa ends WordS That He
Is BlameIess
tAsSoeiatsd Press by FEDERAL Wireless,


Ell PASO, January 23.--Eight sway.
ing bodies deeOmpOsing upon the tree
upon which they had been hanged by
bandits, the eight dead being Ameri.
cans, according 10 the information Of
Mexicans living nearby, was one Of
the sights seen by A. J. Trnmbo, al
Louisianan, who has just returned from
the State Of Oakaca, which is so over.
run by bandits as 70 be unsafe FOR any
foreigner. Mr.. Trumbo has made an
affidavit covering what he knows Of
Oaxacan conditions, which. document
win be forwarded 70 the state DEPART,
ment at Washington, ! -. 7
OaxaeI Is lawless, with rowing bands
Of pillagers and murderers, without re 4
gard to law Of God or man, reports
Mr.. Trumbo, who says that the Var
rama soldiers In the State are wholly
powerless TO cope with the situation.
The eight dead bodies which he had
b-en told were those Of Amerieaps exc.
cuted by the bandits, were so dse6m.
posed as to be beyond Identification. \
Bandit To Die Today r~a'@.
Yesterday the details of the killing
Of another American raneher by Mexi.
can cattle thieves became known here,
while the news Also comes that. the
Mexican responsible for the killing has
been caught and will be executed In
public today at .JuarcZ. , The dead
American Is Bert Akers. His slayer is
Bernardo Duran, who has confessed TO
bis act. Akers is a wen known ranth !
er and Duran is equally well knowp as
a cattle thief and bandit. The KILLING
took place just south of the border.
Akers, accompanied by Douglas
Downs and another American whose
name is not known, went across the
border to recover some cattle stolen
\ by the Mexican thieves from n Mrs.
J, d. Murphy. AkeEs' sister-inrlaw has
learned that Duran and his brother
FREDERICK began the shooting ARRAY
in which Akers was killed. S's
villa Not Guilty .wr.l ~
In the meanwhile, Villa has sent a
special messenger across the line to this
place to announce TO the Americans
that he should not be held in any do
gree responsible for the murders at
Clrsi, which he condemns. This mes
sage was brought by one Of villa Is OFF.
GERS, Major Tedeore Prieto, who crossed
through the Carranza lines and over
the border in Disguise, to bring the
message Of his chief to the people Of
the United States. SFFNf, Jifg h
villa, says Major Prieto, has also
commenced a search for the men re-
spGnsible for the killing of j che
eighteen Americans at Cusi, who acted
without any justification and without
orders. When these men are run down
by the Villistas, they will be surnnlarily
SKecuted, even Il, when they Hrs found,
they should turn out to be Yillistas
themselves. p. .' ."''b'..N'fN NJ 'Htt
Major Prieto reports that villa is in
the vicinity of Pearson, chihuahua, in
no danger of capture.
Murderer Deported y ~ y
Word from New Orleans Is that
Maxine Castillo, a Mexican bandit
leader, has been deported by the fede
| raj authorities and has taken "a boat
Tor Havana. Castillo Is 'feputed to be
tunnel, at full speed, after he had
destroyed the tunnel in its center with
dynamite. The train was wrecked and
twenty-One Americans were amongst
the passengers killed, The train burn,
ed up and the bodies were nnrecogniza,
BILE when recovered. This happened in
February IF 1914, x. $500 ~. .,
Custom Men Shoot ''h,N'3 ~,
Customs officers here yesterday open.
ed FIRE on Mexicans who were attempt
ing to cross the border carrying among
their little belongings bundles Of rags