Omaha daily bee., 1919-11-29
Seventh Crime Since Car.
rama Was Warned That
"Next One" Would Lead
To Action.
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Mexican government declines to in
tervene, and it is understood that
Mr.. Lansing further outlined to the
ambassador the inevitable conse-
quences of continued murders and
molesta tons of Americans, probably
more pointedly than was done in
the governments official note Of
last July.
Third American Dead.
About the same time word came
in of the death of another American
as the result of brutal treatment of
bandits who held him for ransom.
He was Otto Lund, of Swedish
birth, a naturalized American, who
died of blood poisoning after being
held for ransom five months in the
state of Mayarit. His captors
chopped off one Of his fingers and
wrapped it within their written de-
mand for ransom money which they
sent to his friends in Topic. Blood
poisoning and gangrene killed the
man while his wife, an American
woman, and their child, are reported
in want in Topic.
The murder of Wallace, however,
assumes proportions of overshad-
owing Importance. Potrero 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. When word of his
death was received here the Off
Gals of all three companies were
communicated with for identified
ton. The Gulf company's Office at
Houston, Texas, responded that the
Wallace probably was w. M. Wal
lace, who was known to be in the
,Tampico district and on the Potrero
Del Llano property.
Eighth Since Warning.
If the identification be correct,
Wallace is the eighth employe of
the Gulf company to meet death at
the hands Of Mcxicans in the Tam
pico district, and the eighth Amer
lean to be killed in Mexico since
July %, when the United States
warned Carranza that further n1ur-
ders of Americans would seriously
affect the relations between the two
countries.
According to State department
records the eight murders nave been
in this order:
July 3l-R. A. Cunningham. at
Matamoras.
August 2s-Adam schaefer. at
Pinosa.
August 3o-H. S. McGill, at
Coapua.
September PA. P. Hennessy, at
La Colorado.
September 21-Lieutenant c. H.
Connolly, U. S. A., at Bahia.
Lieutcant' F. B. Waterhouse, at
Bahia.
(These were the two army avi-
at who lost their way, were starved
and finally murdered by Mexican
fishermen.
November l4E. K. Lack, at
Mexicali, said to have been killed by
a Mexican official.
November 26-James Wallace, at
Tampico.
Seventh Killed by Carranzans.
It is further said from the unof-
fetal records that Wallace is the
seventh American killed by Car
rama soldiers in the Tampico dis
trict. a.,
Immediately on receipt OF the
death of Wallace the State depart
ment ordered investigation and tur-
Their report on the details.
Investigation and report on the
new phases of the jenkins case,
raised in the Mexican note refusing
to meet this governments demand
for the consular agents immediate
release, already has been ordered.
The whole effect of the days de-
velopments was to put the Mexican
situation, already acknowledged bad,
into the worst light of probably more
than a year.
The reports Of fighting in Mexico
CITY and the reported flight OF Car
rama, should they be verified, are
expected to have a material bearing
upon it. So far as revealed no news
was received directly from Mexico
City. The State and War depart
ments and the Department of JUS
tice all of which had been receiving
information recently tending to fore
cast such a development, set about
seeking further information and
yerification of the days reports
which came to the border.
Due to Angeles Shooting.
There was just a suspicion that
the trouble in the Mexican capital
was =. reaction from the execution OF
Gen. Felipe Angeles at Chihuahua
City, against which many Mexicans.
including Carranza supporters, pro-
tested vigorously.
1t has been known here for some
time that the preliminaries of the
Mexican presidential campaign were
waxing warnr> with Carranza and
Oregon as the chief figures. Obre-
gon has been touring the country
and is just about due at Manzanillo,
one of the Pacific coast ports con-
trolled by Carranza forces. Although
the report of an outbreak seemed
to be the logical consequence to an
accumulation of information at
hand there was disposition to await
further news before considering it .
real factor in the situation.
A change of government in Mex
leo, it was pointed out, might point
the way to solution of the present
difficulties. On the other hand. it
was said, change in government