New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-20
WRITER TELLS OF
MEXICAN BANDITS
G. L. MORRILL, CONTINUES TO
INTERESTINGLY DESCRIBE
HIS TRIP.
HEARD STORIES THAT SOUNDED
LIKE PAGES FROM DEVILS
DIARY.
By G. L. Morrill,.

In Mexico the bandits life is one con-
tinual round Of ammunition (Which they
get from the United States.) Outlaws
ravage tt e country, rob towns, tear up
tracks and dynamite trains, insult women,
plumber the passengers, burn up stations,
bridges, passenger and freight trains
and throw the bodies of the wounded
into the fire. They not only maraud
and murder but mutilate and commit
the most fendish crimes imaginable on
men and women.
Atrocity Too Tame Word.
"Atrocity'' is too angelic and tame
word to describe the diabolic acts of
bandit and soldier. I talked with and
photographed girls who had been dis
honored by Zapatista bandits. Their
stories sounded like pages from the
Devils diary. Every few days trains are
held up by bandits, and not only are
children kidnapped, and men robbed,
but women are stripped Of their clothing,
taken out Of the train and ravished in
sight of the passengers by bandit soldiers.
A man who had just escaped with the
clothes on his back told me that on his
train little fve-year old girl was being
outraged by a Mexican brute, and when
her father tried to rescue her, the ruffian
picked her up by the feet and beat her
brains out against the iron railing on the
platform. Recently a pack of these
hell-hounds came to planters house
and asked him for $500. When he told
them he did not have it, he was tied and
tortured. Then the brutes outraged
his daughter before his eyes until she was
dead, after which they killed him and
subjected him and her to hellish
mutilation and indignity so unthinkable
and unutterable that even hell must have
been put in a shame-faced mood. Such
crimes are common all over Mexico.
Carranza' Soldiers No Better.
Carranza's soldiers are not much
better. I saw one Of them on train in
company of young girl of about ID
years whom he had taken from her home
as mistress. The poor thing sat there
crying all day and with no redress or
rescue. When these soldier brutes get
tired of their female consorts they hit
them over the head with the butt end
of their gun, or send bullet thru them,
or cut their Threats or drown them.
My train was held up and our soldier
guard shot at. Women prayed, cried,
Rugged their babies, hid their Jewels,
While profane drummer sang, '.Nearer
My God to Thee," and I was thinking
OF the Scripture, Prepare to meet thy
God" By few days I followed Am
bassador Henry Fletcher enroute to
Mexico City, and he, too, just escaped
with his life. The trains before and
after his were dynamited and many were
killed. No American diplomat ever
had warmer welcome, tho Carranza
moved from one city to another n made
Fletcher follow him as dog desc his
master. Passenger trains are preceded
by military train full of soldiers and a
fiat car with gatling gun. Some trains
have car load of soldiers coup pied to the
last coach. At one station I read the
sign This train leaves at eight o'clock
or before" You can't tell when your
train will come, go or be annulled. The
safest time to travel is just after hold-up
or wreck, because the bandits are taking
rest or have gone to some other road.
Wrecks and killings are not referred to I;
by the station agent or reported by the
press. An editor who mentions one has
his paper promptly suppressed.
The bandits are not only in the north,
but east, west and south on all the
principal railroad lines. When caught,
they are shot or hung to telegraph poles
with label Of warning to others. What
an levating spectacle it is to see these
bandit bodies, mutilated, fostering and
denuded, blackened by sun and dirt,
with legs and arms eaten off by vultures,
swinging from the telegraph poles, not
only along the route but at all the lead
ing stations from Monterey to Queretaro.
Bandit Is Bold And Bad
Carranza has been in power two
years, but the bandit is such bold, +
bad man that he comes to the city ].
limits Of the capital itself and shoots up
the reservoir and shuts off the supply
of water for drinking and bathing
purposes. Like the bullet-riddled
bandits I saw hung up along the
load, Truth, Honor, Justice and
Virtue have been killed and crucifed
in Mexico.
CARD OF THANKS.