The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-06-30
TROOPERS GLAD To
Reach HOME
OF CARRIZAI. SUR
RENDERED TO AMERICAN Of
FICERS AT JTAREZ.

El Paso. Tex, June Twenty
three negro troopers of the Tenth
cavalry and Lem II Spillsbury. Nor
mon scout, captured by the Mexicans
at CarriZal and subsequently con
fined in the Chihuahua penitentiary,
We're brought to the border and
turned over to the American military
authorities.
A shout of laughter rose from the
thousands of JuareZ MeXicans who
had gathered to witness the arrival
of the negroes as they filed out OF
the special train
The negroes were dressed i'm the
seantiest and most nondescript garb.
Some had only trousers. one wore a
shirt. while a towel encircled his
waist Others heads were decorated
with bandanas
Only One Smiling.
Spillsbury was dressed in a white
duck suit He appeared anxious.
All the troopers were worn and
drawn from their experience and all
We're serious save one who wore a
broad smile. This one made himself
the impromptu spokesman Of his fel-
lows
We sure are glad to get back %
he said.
At the commandancia the troopers
refused to discuss the Carrizal fight.
their Imprisonment or their return
TO the border.
We are soldiers. not plain citi-
zens," they said We will have to
report TO our superior officers and
receive their instructions.
Spillsbury was not so uncommuni-
catiye, however. He entered the pri-
vate office of Gen. Gonzales and
there gave out a brief interview in
which he repeated statements he had
been accredited with making at Chi
huahua by Gen. Jacinto Trevino.
These statements were to the effect
that Capt. Boyd, commander of the
Americans at Carrizal, persisted in
advancing toward villa Ahumada to
recover a negro deserter. after Gen.
back and after Spillsbury had urged
MIN 10 accept tnlS auNlce.
This interview was arranged at the
solicitation of the Mexican officials
and before Spillsbury or any of the
Americans had had a chance TO see
the American officials.
Boyd Wouldn't Turn Back.
While Spillsbury was talking Gen.
Gonzales sent out for food for the
prisoners who had had nothing to eat
since leaving Chihuahua.
In his interview Spillsbury declar-
ed that he did not know who fired
the first shot at Carrizal He said
that after the second conference be
tween Capt Boyd and Gen. Gomez.
when he advised turning back, Capt.
Boyd said:
Il am the commander and it is for
you to obey"
Spillsbury declared there were but
seyenty-six Americans in Capt.
Boyd's force. He explained that
when the expedition left camp il was
composed of eighty-six men. but that
at Santa Maria ten were sent back
10 the main force with a wagon train.
Spillsbury said after he had been
told that il was his duty to obey he
advised Boyd that he at least should
wait until the Mexicans fired on him.
Following the battle. Spillsbury
said he and the other prisoners We're
taken to villa Ahumada, where their
hands were tied and they were put
aboard a train.
Stoned by Natives.
They were stoned, he said. while
this was being done.
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. He denied, however, that at
any time were the prisoners put to
work cleaning the streets. One ter
rifying moment came to him, he said,
in the chihuahua penitentiary, when
he was threatened with being hang
ed. He had been mistaken for Tex
as Mexican and had been dubbed a
traitor, he explained. As soon as il
was found that he was a white man
and attached TO Gen. Pershing's COM
mand, he was informed he was in no
danger
I'VE were we'll treated all the time
we were in chihuahua" Spillsbury
continued THE trip here was with
out incident"
At villa Ahumada on the return
trip the prisoners again were met by
a jeering crowd, which. however. re
Trained from excess. Spillsbury said
he would return to the American side
with the other prisoners and would
offer his services TO Pershing.
WATCH CHILD's COUGH.
Colds, running of nose. continued irri-