Arizona republican., 1919-06-12
BORDER RAIDS AND MURDERS TAKE DAY
 IN TRIBUNE TR|AL
Old Time Residents Testify Effort to Introduce the Present Juarez Trouble Is Ruled Out by Court

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. June II. A romantic episode of the border, as related by Jesse Deemer now of Buhl, Idaho, from the witness stand held the close attention of counsel and specta- tors in Judge Fuckers court today, where Henry Ford is suing'the Chicago Daily Tribune for $1000000 on a charge of libel.
 Deemer spent many years in Mexico and along the border as g. telegrapher and railroad man, rancher and store keeper, but after his captue by bandits, the lootnig of his Seneal store at Bo- quillas, Texas, on the border, and his thrilling rescue by American troopers, he exchanged his sombrero for a derby hat and retired to the comparative quiet of Idaho.
 Norman Walker, correspondent of the Associated Press at Fl Paso; MT. Deemer, Oscar G. Compton Of San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Glen Springs, Texas, and Orin C. Dove. a customs inspector at Presidio, Texas, were the days other witnesses.
 Attorney Elliott G. Stevenson of Tribune counsel sought to question Walker as to the reports of a new threat of the fighting at JuareZ, Mex
  Paso, but the testimony was not per mitted. MT. Stevenson argued to the court that the new developments should go into the evidence as show ing that the situation in Mexico in 1916, when the Tribune called MT. Ford an anarchist, continued even now, but Judge Tucker held as the witness had the information only from newspapers and in telegramS 1t was not admiS- sible.
 Introduce Wilson Letter
 Mir. Walker was the medium through which two official statements, one from President Wilson, and the other from Secretary of State Lansing, were in- troduced.
 Attorney Alfred Lucking, for Mir Ford read an appeal to the press by President Wilson in March, 1916 shortly after the Columbus. New Mex ico, raid by a Villa band. in which American citizens were slain. In this letter the president appealed to the press to avoid referring to the troop | movement in Mexico as war, or to pub 1 fish sensational rumors or otherwise az | gravate a situation which might be- come serious. The letter warned that | powerful influences" were at work to
 
 were persons who were interested in l exaggerating the facts. Attorney l Weymouth Kirkland, of counsel for the Tribune, countered with MT Lansing $ scathing indictment three months later, of the Mexican federal government, l containedin a letter to President Car ranza, after CarranZa had insisted that | General Pershing's troops, still in pur- suit of the Columbus raiders, be with 1 dawn
 In this letter, MT. Lansing recited a long list of raids into American terri tory; of murder and footing, and 'un- civilized initiation
 Compton, Deemer and Dove testi- fled as to incidents in the Big Bend country of Texas. Compton and Deemel suffered from a raid made by Mexi- cans in the middle of May, 1915 Al Glen Springs, Texas, there was a de- tachment of nine American soldiers whose duty it was to guard 90 or 4 miles of border. They were attacked during the night by Mexicans anC Compton's 4-year-old son was killed Another son witnessed the killing.
 Tells of Baby Killing
 Deemer, during his captivity, gained a somewhat dubious version of the kill ing of the baby. A bandit, rejoinin: the party which had Deemer told hin that he mistook the child for a mai and fired and that he was sorry. Comp ton imself escaped by hiding in a gull | ley.
 , The Mexicans who captured Deeme first footed his store. securing. s2,000 il cash
 'They told me that they hated tn Americans because President Wilsol } had permitted Carranza troops to pas 5 through United States territory t |. operate against Villa" related Deemei l They said they liked the Germans though, and right then 1 decided | l change my citizenship. I told them was a German"