Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-26
JENKINS LIES IN
PRISON SICK AND
BAIL DENIED HIM
Carranza Continues to Ignore
Demand of United States
Governmnt That Consular
Agent Be Given Freedom.
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Washington, Nov 25-The new
flareup over the Mexican problem
growing out of the Jenkins case, was
given consideration today at a meet
ing of the presidents cabinet.
There was no intimation as to what
this government might do in event
President Carranza refused TO answer
the note from the state department
demanding release of William O. Jen-
kins, consular agent at Puebla, held
on a charge of connlving with ban
dlts who kidnapped and held him for
$15O,000 ransom.
No attempt was made to conceal the
feeling that the situation was serious
and that relations between the Unit
ed States and Mexico We're strained.
Officials said the three departments,
state, war and navy, were ready to
meet any eventuality and deal with
any situation arising out of a more
defiant attitude by the Carranza ad-
ministration toward the United States.
in the absence of adVces from the
embassy at Mexico City, officials were
not much inclined to put much faith
in reports coming by way of Laredo,
Tex, that the release of Jenkins was
momentarily expected" There was no
lean embassy here and while nobody
seemed to know what the next day
might bring forth, officials said they
would not be surprised to hear that
jenkins actually had been released.
Meanwhile, the government has
checked up the official and private
record of jenkins and has given him
high class rating Officials declared
there was no foundation for the
charge he had conspired with the ban
dts, and that information from every
available source showed that his state
ment of his capture, and the methods
employed by the bandits were correct
in all details.
The latest report from the Ameri-
can embassy showed that Jenkins was
still in the penitentiary and i'll and
that bail had been refused him.
In looking into the various features
of the consular agents predicament
officials pointed out today that under
the Mexican constitution state courts
had no jurisdiction in cases involv-
ing diplomatic or consular officers,
such jurisdiction being lodged specifi-
cally in the federal court. 1t was con-
tended that the federal court of Mex
leo could settle the question with one
stroke of the pen, simply by assuming
ing jurisdiction as is its right.
Washington, Nov 2J.--Ten of the
wealthiest ranchers of Vera Cruz, cap
tured by bandits November Is, are be-
ing held for $4,000 ransom each, ad-
vices today from Mexico City said.
A number of other ranchers were
caught at the same time when the
bandits dynamited a train, but they
were released because they had no
funds. Only the rich were held.
The amount demanded for those in
custody was exactly what bandits OBJ
tanned from William o. Jenkins,
American consular agent at Puebla.
7. c. Mckenzie, American manager
of an electric power plant at Ciudad
Camarga, Chihuahua, was seized re-
Gently by bandits but federal troops
got him away before he could be TAX
en- TO the hills.
Mexico City, Nov. "a (Monday y
The case surrounding the arrest of
American Consular Agent Jenkins,
which has been treated alphabetically
on the part of most of the newspapers,
furnished the basis for an extra edi-
tion of lei Universal Monday after