Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-27
SCRATCH GOODBYE
| NOTES TOM0THERS
ON PLANES Wings
With Knife or Nail U. S. Flyers
Tell of Distress-SIain
by Mexicans.
By the Associated Press.

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SAN DIEGO, Calf, October 81
Plans were put in operation today in
Lower California. Mexico, as well as
at Washington. looking to the arrest
Tor the Mexican fishermen accused OF
numbering Lieuts, Cecil H. Connolly
and Frederick Waterhouse, American
aViators, who flew. into Mexican ter
lost their lives.
/ the identity Of the accused men is
known both TO Mexican and American
toHGlals, 1t was announced officially
when the aviators' bodies were
nreught here on the destroyer Aaron
days ia. shallow graves near Bahia
Los, angeles, lower California, and
because of the friendly relations ex
listing between the American govern
i9ent and Gov. Esteban Cantu of Low er
SaiiIornla. comparatively little diff
Guilty is anticipated in apprehendine
them. Q
The aviators' record of their suffer-
ihgS and brief letters to their moth
fers, scratched on the wings and fusi-
Ifilage OF their plane. were brought here
Dy Joe Allen Richards, a mining en-
Egineer.who first reported discovery
OF the bodies. At one time the avia-
TORS were within twelve miles Of an
AmeEican-op erated mine, where they
coaid nave found food and safety.
Letters to Mothers.
Joe Allen Richards. member ~ the
searching party. gave out last night
s wna ne ne said were comics of letters
Warehouse on their airplane. That
written by Connolly read, in part:
dearest Mother: My time to die is
mere. God knows it will be welcome
enough after our suffering SO far of
munger and thirst. Try to forget my
tate, What I have is yours. Use it for
your comfort and happiness. 1 tried to
lve q good life and I do not fear
for me. -
Ethel. 7 '-i0
God bless you all. CECIL
Lieut.. Warehouses; Message.
The following is Richards COPY of
Lieut.: Waterhouses note to his
Dearest Mother: We have been here
now ten days. No signs of any help,
and our water 9early gone, SO 1
thought | would write you a short
letter while had the strength. L don't
Mant you TO, grieve for me. 1 want
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much. All my love to you and sis and
dad. Lovingly, SON
Aayers From Mexican Sloop.
According to Maj r. S. Bratton.
mead OF the, military party sent from
here to recover the bodies, the slayers
were from Mexican sIoop.
MAI. Hratton said that the two avfa-
tors Rad gone nineteen days without
FOOD or at least without much to
sustatn them. The fate that drew
them Tar from their air path remained
WITH them until the very last. Maj.
Theodore MacAuley. in one of his
fiEhts to find them, few Within sixty
miles Of the spot where they stood
guarding their plane. Later, on the
afternoon of September 6, they were
landed from a canoe on the shores of
Bahia Los Angeles by the same fish
ermen who are accused Of having kill
ed them five days later, and at that
time, were only twelve miles from
Los Flores silver mine. where they
might have received protection and
food.
One Of their messages, scratched on
the -airplane fusilage with q knife or
nail, said the airneH remained in the
air four hours and Ave minutes. that
they ran into a rainstorm and lost
their sense Of direction. When they
sighted the Cult of California they
thought they were flying up the coast
instead of southwark along the east
coast Of the Gulf Of California.
Fished for Food in Vain
Another snessage, traced ON the