Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-06-30

General Gomez replied by sendid
Lieut.. Col. Rivas out to confer wij
Capt. Boyd. A parley, at which I wd
Interpreter, was heN in the center
the field. The Mexican officer told Cad
Boyd that his orders were that Amerl
cans could not advance south. east
west. Capt Boyd then asked for peI
sonal interview with Gen. Gomez. Thl
was granted.
Gen. Gomez, reiterated the inforri
alton given by his subordinate and I'd
turned to his lines. A few minutes "a
ter. almost simultaneously, both cord
mands formed in ines of skirmis|
Then a detachment Of Carranza trooI
ran around our lef flank, apparentI
to surround us. We found ourselves
the center of Inc of Mexican
stretching in a hose shoe like curl
about US. Then the firing began.
| Il don't know whp began it, but fro|
the center of the lCrse shoe a Med
! can machine gun I0ured a hail of bu
lets at US. while from the point of Il
curve on our left flank another ",
firing at US"
Spillbury's description Of the battle W
virtually the same as that previous
given by others. He said that after d
second conference he had urged Car
Boyd not to advance in the face OF b
contrary orders OF the Mexican leadei
but was told that the officer would fold
instructions.
Don't fire until you are fred upd
boys l heard Capt. Boyd shout as
gave the order to advance over my ear
est protest." the scout added.
Spillsbury said he was surrounded
a band of Mexicans who forced him
surrender and threatened to shoot him ID
mediately.
They said l had fired the shots TIL
killed their Leader and they called me
'tejano' and seemed to believe that
was Texas Mexican and consequent
in their opinion, traitor to Mexico. u
til, with the other prisoners, my arms we
bound and l was put In a stock q
bound for Chihuahua City, believed th
I was to be executed The soldiers all
believed they we're to be killed, but a
sured them they were not and as we g
farther into the interior our confden
began to come back But again At Ch
huahua City was told that the govern
of the state had ordered my executio
and not until had talked with Gen. TT
vino was relieved of the impression"
Spillsbury and the prisoners asser'
that they had received nothing but y
most courteods treatment at the hsn'
Of the Mexican soldiery.
1t was in the immigration static
that the Negro troopers told the
stories of'the Carrizal fight and the
appearance at Villa Ahumada and Oh
hulhua City.
Sienced Machine Guns
William ID. Gibson. G troop. Ne
York City, was the trooper who silen'
ed the two Carranzsta machine gun
according to the stories told ny h
fellow soldiers. Gibson was at cap
Boyd's side when that officer. with
bullet through his shoulder, ran To Il
| rear for water and then returned
the fighting line to met his death.
THE captain said to me: God. II
could only stop those machine guns,
Gibson said. Il told him I'd try 70 p
those fellows. SO 7 dropped fat under
little tree and. being a shrapshooter va
ed for the fellow who was operating q
gun from the center. Pretty soon he raj
ed his head from the trench where q
gun was. I missed him. bur IN a nina
he looked up again ard 7 got him. Th'
I turned around and got the fellow vi
was operating on the iert flank.
didn't take much precaution, and 7 g
him on the first shot Apparently IN
had only two machine gun operators =
the guns were not worked any more. IA
er they told me had put me guns o
Of order"