The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-29

Another OF 1.-The last straws," as one
official put it. was laid on today with
the official report of the murder OF
James Wallace. an American oil man,
by a Carranza soldier near Tampico on
Wednesday, The State Department
summarized its advices in this forma.
statement:
James Wallace, an American en-
ploye of an American oil company near
Tampico. was murdered by Mexican
federal soldier a Petrero del Llano on
Wednesday, November IS. The MUIR
derer was not taken into custody.
According to the departments adj
vices. the officer in charge of troops
camped in the vicinity claimed that
The department has been informed as
result of an investigation that a
mule on which Wallace was riding to
the place of his employment SHE'D at
a machine gun which it was passing,
ioverturning the gun. The soldier inn
mediately shot Wallace. the bullet
striking him in tha neck and killing
him Instantly
The u'ailaea referred to ia relieved
here 10 b. w. NJ Wallace. an cp,ploye
Of the CUR Refining company. IA
miliarly known to his associates as
Jim" Wallace recently went to Tam
pico after having been in Colombia for
the Gulf company. He Is about 40
years old.
The Mexican ambassador. Ignacio
Bonillas. called on Secretary Lansing
at the State Department late today,
and they not only went over the Jen-
kins case, but Mr.. lansing also laid
before, the Mexican envoy the report
In the killing of Wallace, which has
Just been received. nheir conference
was, OF course, confidential. but 1t is
understood that the secretary conveyed
to President Carranza's representative
a message more forceful and direct
than any yet transmitted in any diplo-
matte note. Mr.. Bonillas was informed
that the department placed no credence
in the charges on which Jenkins is
held in jail in Puebla, in which the
Mexican government declines to inter-
yene, and it is understood that Mr..
Lansing further outlined to the ambas-
sador the inevitable consequences Of
continued murders and molestations of
Americans, probably more pointedly
than was done in the governments Of
tlCldl note OIL last july
ANOTHER KILLED
About the same time word came in
of the death of another American as
the result OF brutal treatment OF ban
dts who held him for ransom. He
was Otto Lund, of Swedish birth.
naturalized American, who died OF
blood poisoning after being held for
ransom five months in the state of
Nayarit. His captors chopped off one
of his fingers with a foul weapon and
wrapped it within their written de-
mand for ransom money which he sent
to friends in Tepec.
Blood poison and gangrene killed the
man. while his wife. an American wo-
man. and their child are reported in
want in Topic.
The murder OF Wallace, however. as
sumed proportions of overshadowing
Importance. Petrero del Llano, the
ranch on which he was murdered. Is
six to nine miles south OF Tampico.
The oil pipe lines of the Aguilar. Gulf
Refining and Huasteca Oil companies
run through the property.s When word
of his death was received here the Of
ficials OF all three companies wera
communicated with for Identification.
The Gulf company's office at Houston
Tex, responded that the Wallace prob
ably was the w. NJ Wallace who was
and on the Potrero del Ilano property.
II the Identification be correct. Walalce
is the eighth employee of the Gulf COM
pany TO meet death at the hands of Next
cans IN the Tampico district and the
eighth American to be killed In Mexico
since July p, when the United States
warned Carranza that further murders
of Americans would seriously affect the
relations between the two countries.
EIGHT MURDERS
According to state department records
the eight murders have been in this
order:
July 81. r. A. Cunningham. at Mata-
moras; August IS. Adam Schaefer at
Pinos, August 3d. II. S. McGill at Coapa;
September 2. A. p. Hennessy at La Coll
orado; September 81, Lieut.. C. II. Con-
nelly, u. S. A.. AZ Bahia.
LierE. F. b. Waterhouse. u. s. A.. at
Bahia. CThese were the two army avia-
tors who lost their lives, were sarved and
finally murdered by Mexican fishermen).
November rs. Z. K Lack at Mexica,L
said to have been killed by Mexican
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