Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-01
Mexican Outlaws Cross the
Border and SIay Private
John TwOney and u. S, Gus
toms Inspector Wood
ENGAGEMENT OCCURS
NEAR FT. HANCOCK, TEX.
Caranza Troops Are Sum-
moned and Participate in
the Fightingi Fugitives Re-
cross River Are Pursued,
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EI Paso. July 3l-Carranza sol
Jters and customs guards are tonight
PURSUING two of the five Mexican ban
dts who crossed the American Eof-
der today and fought with a detail of
fine Eighth United states cavalry, re-
tuforced bv a detachment of McNi-
can troops. killing two Americans ana
wOunding q third, into the desert
south of san Ngnacio, Chihuahua.
Reports from captain Marcelo Ma
rucllo, commanding the detachment
composed Of about six soldiers ana
six Mexican customs guards, received
i'm IuareZ tonight said that the out
laws were last seen about eight miles
south of the American frontier He
added that indications that at least
one Of the two fugitives is wounded,
were contained in the discovery II
blood spots on the sand ana upon a
cump of mesquite near which they
apparently stopped to rest.
At the Fort Bliss hospital, where
Sergeant Lewis Thompson, of Bloss-
burg, Pa, was taken suffering from a
bullet wound in the left shoulder,
1t was asserted that his condition is
not dangerous. The bodies of Prl-
yate John TWoney of Patterson, n j.,
and Robert Wood a United States GUS
toms Inspector, killed in the engage
ment, were brought here tonight.
Wood. who lived at Fort Hancock,
was twenty-four years old and ma
tive Of strawberry Point, la, He en-
tered the government service last
Saturday and began his work only a
few hours before he was killed
Outlaws Being Pursued.
Al military headquarters here ana
i'm marcz, belief was expressed to-
night that the bandit chase would not
continue long, it being pointed out
that the bandits are fleeing afoot
across the desert. which affords III,
tie water and no food, while their
pursuers are well mounted and heavily
armed.
AT military headquarters here. an
rounccment was made that in view
Of the fact that Mexican troops CO.
operated actively in the engagement
with the American detachment ana
is making a vigorous pursuit of the
outlaws, no United States troops VIII
cross the border.
Troops E, l. and II Of the Eighth
cavalry at Fort Bliss, ordered under
arms today, later were ordered to
their tQrracks, General Bell asserting
that the garrison Of sixty men at Fort
Hancock, composed of eighteen regu-
lar cayalrymen and a detachment OF
the Etshth Massachusetts is adequate
to cope with any possible emergency.
Detailed reports of the engagement
received here tonight by General
Bell Jr., commanding the El Paso
military district, indicated that earlier
reports that Lieutenant Charles Tel
ford was in personal command Of the
detachment of his troops engaged,
were erroneous. The detachment un-
der Sergeant Thompson, consisting of
six troopers of the Eighth cavalry
and a hospital orderly. We're ordered
from Fort Hancock by Captain Fl. y.
Gushing, G company Eighth MasSa-
chusetts infantry to investigate re
ports from Robert Wood and James
j. Bean, United States customs in
spectors, that bandits, pressed by
Mexican troops. had crossed the bor-
der i'm search Of refuge
Americans surprised
Reaching an adobe hut, live miles
below Fort Hancock in which the
bandits were hiding. the cavalrymen,
together with the two customs in
speCtors, surrounded it and adjacent
outhouses. when it seemed to Bean
that the American force might be in
adequate, he called upon Captain Ma
tullo who Immediately, with about
ten men, crossed to the American side
of the river ana marched to the nuts.
The approach of the Mexican de
lachment from the rear surprised the.
Americans, who did not know Wheth-
Cr TO regard them as friends or foes.
they were TeaSsured shortly, however