The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-23
MRS. CORRELL
TELLSOF CRIME
Woman Widowed by Mexi-
cans, and Her Son Narrate
4 Narrowing Experiences.
GERMAN LED BANDITS
House Rules Committee Hears
Brutal Details From Lips
Of American Victims.

IN Washington, July 23.-The tragedy
u the murder Of John w, Correll, an
american farmer located near Tam
pico, by Mexicans on June is, last
while defending his wife and son and
Nome, the subsequent assault OF the
wife and attempted murder of the
tcn. was told today by the victims
before the house rules committee.
Il y Mrs. Mary Correll and her son,
1oseph, 16, who came to Washington
10 plead for punishment OF the MUIR
derers and for monetary redress,
Eraphically narrated their narrowing
experiences before members OF the
Ncommittee. When the victims left
Mexico the Carranza government had
9done nothing tangible to ,infiict pun
4ishment and to make restitution OF
Sstolen property, they said
Dressed in mourning Mrs. Correll a
Amember of the Chickasaw Indian
tribe who had spent most of her life
at Aida, Okla, shaken and wrecked
by her experiences, was led gently
into her story.
On the morning of June 16, she
said. some fifty Mexicans, mounted
and armed with rifles and revolvers,
rode up to the house. One, the leader,
was wearing a uniform that looked
like an officers uniform. He spoke
English but the others spoke Spanish.
After a short talk with my son
and husband" she continued they
entered the house and began to strip
II of everything. They then seized
me. My husband told them to let
me alone: They struck him and
dragged me away from him. They
Knocked him down and ] ran. They
caught me. Later heard shot. got
away again and hid but they found
me. I heard other shots. They shot
my husband first outside the house
and then they shot him through the
head while he was coming through
1.-THE Kitchen door"
hyNhat did you do after they had
ief.?" Representative Campbell
"Thsy All Look Alike"
Il found my son and went to Mexi-
can neighbors for help, but they
would do nothing. Then some Amer
leans came about noon but the Mexi-
cans had gone. The next day an
American took my son and me to
Tampico and we came to the states"
"Do YOU know whether the men
who attacked you were Carranzlstas,
Zapatas or others?''
II do not, they all look alike"
Joseph Correll, the son, was on the
porch Of their home with his father
when the Mexicans came up.
They asked me If we had gum"
he said.
Il told them no. We had Stevens
rife. Two men got off their horses
Nv order Of the leader, who was
fsssyaar, ard went Into the house to
zach IL. They found the rife. Then
ali Of them got off their horses. The
leade wore a uniform like an Amer
dean captain none of the others wore
uniforms. They took nearly every
thing out Of our house"
Representative Campbell: John,
ala they say anything about search
ing for arms?"
Said They Wanted Guns.
"They said they wanted guns" said
the boy, but didn't say why
After that came the violence to
your mother and killing of your
father" suggested Campbell.
yes" replied young Correll.
Two men held me. They punched /
me around with their guns, shot at !
nv feet and threatened to kill me. |
After my mother ran out and. my |
father was shot they marched me {!
into the house and ordered me to |
search for shells for the rife. They |,
slot father because he tried to pro- |
tect mother"
y How did you escape?"
II ran away" said young Correll.
while they were attacking l ran |
across the road into the bushes. They |
shot Mt me. 4 bullet passed through |
the collar Of my coat When they
were gone | came back and found |
mother. We went to get. help from !
the neighbors. The Mexicans had |
taken everything we had, Americans
helped us bury father and took us to
Tampico."