The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-01-17
About to Issue Decree Author
izing Any Citizen to Exc
cute Any of Bandits.
WITHOUT PALE
OF THE LAW
Similar DEGREES Issued and Ex-
ecuted in Case of Dynamit-
ing Passenger Train.

surances to the United States
that he would make every effort
to punish those responsible for
the murders of Americans near
Santa Ysabel.
A dispatch from Consul Sill
man, at Queretaro, to the state
department said Carranza had
personally assured Mr.. Silliman
in reply to the departments de-
mand that the murderers be run
down, that he "had issued or
ders for the immediate pursuit,
capture and punishment of
those responsible for the afro
city,"
The dispatch from Consul
Silliman follows:
Departments telegram of
January 13. 5 p. m., massacre
Americans at Santa Ysabel, re-
ceived at 500, and implaced be-
fore Gen. Carranza by me in
person. Gen. Carranza said that
he had already issued orders for
the immediate pursuit, capture
and punishment of those re-
sponsible for the atrocity. He
stated that he believed this out
rage was committed by men as
sociated directly with Villa and
that, it was done specially to
provoke international troubles
at this time. He said he had de-
clared those responsible outside
the law, to be punished with
death if caught.
"He appeals TO the secretary
of state and to the public of the
United States to consider the
wide strip of the Cenral railway
the great difficulty of guarding
the entire distance, and the
comparatively easy task of des-
troying train or attacking
small place. He says that no
body can lament more than he
such an atrocity or be more con-
cerned about it, but that protec-
tion is relative and that even
in the best regulated (?) states
Outbursts of disorders and law
lessness may cause destruction
of property and loss of life.
"He says he is expecting full
reports from Gen. Trevino, and
that all efforts will be made to
protect Americans and any 9TH
er foreigners who may be in the
district. His belief is the mas
sacre was made premediatively
by band who fled at once after
the raid"
Carranza's telegram today to
his embassy here follows:
"The government, under my
direction, has adopted every
necessary measure to insure
the prosecution of an energetic
campaign for the capture and
destruction of the party of Viii
lista bandits, and to continue
the same to it's complete accom-
plishment. | have asked Gen.
Jacinto P. Trevino, command
ing the constiutionalist troops
in the neighborhood of the as
sassinations, to obtain for me
the names of the assailants in
order that a decree may be is
sued placing them outside the
pale of the law. When this is
done any citizen or citizens of
the republic will have the right
to arrest the guilty parties
without warrant, and to exc
cute them without formality.
Similar DEGREES were issued
and executed favorably in the
cases of assaults and dynamit-
ing of trains in another section
of the republic within the year,
notably when a passenger train
was dynamited and its passen-
gers assaulted near Apizaco and
again near Jalasa. These de-
crees are made effective because
in the opinion of the govern
ment those who perpetrate such
assassinations of human beings
be the victims native Mexicans
or foreigners, must be consider
ed in exactly the same category
as those who dynamite the rail.
way trains.