Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26

E75 per cent of being half way sani-
tary and there We're several prisoners
that did not look good to us. Out OF
the 40 prisoners confined, four OF
them were soldiers. The first one
we talked to was a cavalry man. He
had just received his sentence. He
was given his choice of one year in
the penitentiary or 10 months in
the Brownsville Jail. He chose the
latter. He was convicted o~ftrafic
in white slavery and the evidence
showed that he went over to- Mata-
moras and brought al Mexican girl
for immoral purposes. The sec
ond soldier had just received a SEN
tence of two years in the. peniten-
tiary for forgery. He was to leave
for his new home on the following
Monday and seemed.a s cheerful as if
he were preparing to attend his own
wedding. He had purchased an u
tomobile and forged the name Of the
captain Of his company.
The third soldier murdered a
woman and a companion last Feb
ruary and has not yet had a trial.
We said he "had murdered" but he.
is confined in Jail, awaiting to see.
whether or not he can prove his in
nocence.
The fourth was the Virginia sold
Ter, who shot his corporal in cold
blood since our arrival here. He
would talk and joke along any line
until it came to a mention Of his case,
When he would shut up like a clam.
He was trying to induce a Mexican.
girl to marry him and got rough,
when his corporal interfered, and
was shot and killed instantly.
One. man who had been confined
for seven months without trial, ac-
cused of murder. claimed that he at
one time was an officer under Car
rama.
Another prisoner is alleged to be.
member of Villas band of bandits.
Two of the men were crazy and:
were seemingly being held for inves-
tigation.
These We're all who were inter-
viewed, hut we are going to buy a
dollars worth of Bull Durham
smoking tobacco, get an interpreter,
and go back again in a few days.
The tobacco will sure make them
talk.
Major Lund ju sent a couple of
oranges Up witl1Ekit johnson. We
ate about ~one-fGGrth of one Of them
lit was IS inches in circumference
and we found out they were lem
ons. We won't have to. wear a belt
tonight to find out where our pain is
by the way, we can feel a
pain coming on right now.
We intended to send a Christmas
card to each of our friends in a few
days, 30 we sat down and wrote the
the names ofAtHose to whom we were
going to send cards. When we had.
finished, we counted the cost. Moth
ing stirring. 1t would take about
three months Of munificent salary
to pay postage, 80 we decided that
would send a Christmas Greeting
the columns of this paper
and it would reach a large per cent
Of III acquaintances-who are all
SO far as we are concerned.
Another "norther" hit us last
night and today has been quite chill
", yet a good share of the boys were
around in their shirt
The Iowa artillery have gone
home and ere this missiye reaches
Webster City the First Iowa regi-l
nent of Infantry will be happy on
heir way. 1t is the concensus OF
that the Second Iowa will
follow as 0 as the First can be
mustered out.
We have wandered through all
PARTS Of Brownsville and have been
notes. When we get home
where we have access to a typewriter
machine-we are going to write
| story of the condition of affairs
md people in this particular part of
Texas and across the border. We are
our story of across the bor-
Ter from a young-nOw consarn III
The first man, woman or child that
ellis Mrs. Falstaff who we are inter-
is going to get into a SER
ious mixup-but it is a young lady
who conducts a curio store in
and makes semi-weekly
trips to Matamoros for her stock. A
a lady resident of that old
Mexican city, is assisting us and we
are quite positive that we can grind
out interesting dope for Freeman
Tribune readers that will run on in