The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-12-26
MEXICAN OUTRAGES
MUST Be EXPLAINED
Sailors Arrest And Other
Depredatious Related
By Widow

Washington, Dec. 22.-Represen-
tations of the Mexican government in
J two separate cases involving protec-
tions of American lives went forward
from the State Department today
through the American embassy at
Mexico city.
Vat Mazatlan, Mex, that the two
American sailors arrested there No
vember in connection with street
fight were. being held ION various
prctexts." the department immediate
ly instructed Charge Summerlin at
Mexico City to make representations
to the Carranza government. No ex-
olanation was made by the consul Ia
his report as to the nature of the
''pretexts.
The embassy az the Mexican capital
was directed in another dispatch 20
insist that ,he Mexican government
take steps toward the apprehension OF
The bandits who captured and held for
ransom Frederick Hugo, American
rancher near MuzQuiz, Mex. Attic
official information that Hugo had
been released reached the department
several days ago, It was not learned
by o,:i'.a:- G.lil today 'hat be was
liberated undo, II promis- tc pay
$500 ransom within twelve days.
Ell Paso. Tex, Dec. 22.-Mrs. SUI
san A. Moore, widow of John J
Moore. a storekeeper killef curing
the villa raid on Columbus. N. NJ,
March 3, 1916, at hearing today
for the Senate subcommittee invcati-
eating Mexican affairs, testified con-
cerniug the killing OF her husband
and the looting carried or by the
barG.ts.
Reports that Columbus was To he
raided had been received by Mre. |
Moore and others in Columbus dur
ing six weeks previous to the raid,
she said. but little credepce was siven !
then.
hFSfh tttdFiuS ptou
The hearing was conducted by
Mai. Dan NJ. Jackson, of Ell Paso,
secretary of the subcommittee. One |!
other witness, Joe Allen Richards |
who discovered the bodies of the |
United States aviators, Lieuts. Cecil |
Connolly and Fred Waterhouse, IL |
Lower California, where they were |
forced to descend after being lost on |
a flight from San Diego, Cal, will |
be heard by Major Jackson previous |
to opening of hearings on the Dor
der by the three Senators comprising |
the committee. 1t was SAID Richards |
would testify to the effect the Ameri- |
cans were murdered by Mexicans.
Major Jackson said today the COM
border soon after January l at San
Antonio, Tex. Senator Fall, chair
man of the subcommittee, left here
yesterday to spend Christmas with
relatives at Nogales, Ariz.
Mrs. Moore in her testimony said
the bandits came to their residence
about one and one-quarter miles frou
Columbus and broke in. They shot
and stabbed her husband and before
he died tore his clothes from him.
She also was the target for many
bullets when she tried to escape ard
one hit her in the leg. She succeed
ed in escaping and hiding by a fence
where American soldiers found her
The Mexicans so badly mutilated
her husband that after his death Mrs.
Moore was not allowed to see his
body, she said. Despite her wounds
she accompanied the body to her hus-
bands former home in Ohio but could
only watch the funeral from a cot
near window. she said.
The Moore store at Columbus was
looted, Mrs. Moore testified. She also
told of meeting and talking with Mrs,
Maud II. Wright. who had been cap
tured and held prisoner nine days by
the Nillistas previous to the Columbus
raid. Mrs. Wright was taken after !
her husband had been killed and her
child stolen by the Mexicans. Mrs.
Moore presented claim for $500
TO the committee as representing her
losses during the raid.
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