Arizona republican., 1919-06-07
TELL IF MEXICAN BORDER DLOODSHED
 IN TRIBUNE TRIAL
Several Witnesses Tell of Murders - Rule Out a Statement by Mrs. Patter- son, a Part Owner
rRenuhHcan A. 9. Lesse6 Wire

MOUNT CLEMENS. Mich. June 6. Mrs Nellie r. Austin of Sebastian Texas. whose husband and son were killed by Mexican raiders on their ranch 20 miles north of the Rio Grande, August 6. 1915, testified today for the defendant in the libel suit of Henry Ford against the Chicago Daily Tribune.
 Her testimony, and that of V. L. Con rad and Roscoe H. Smith, followed the ruling of Judge J. c. Tucker that the defendant might ineroduce testimony to show actual conditions along the upon the defendant to show that writ CT of the alleged libelous editorial headed Ford Is An Anarchist" had such knowledge in a general way at the time he wrote the editorial.
 The ruling did not come as a sur prise, for during the four weeks since the case opened the court repeatedly announced that he was disposed to al low the widest possible latitude to the hearing.
 Direct evidence for the plaintiff was concluded in the forenoon. A desposi- tion by Mrs. Einor Medill Patterson one of the owners of the Tribune, was ruled out. It related to her acquaint- ance with Count von Bernstorff ir Washington, an acquaintance which Mrs. Patterson deposed she broke of l5 months before the United States entered the war against Germany. Or this point Judge Tucker said:
 Tt does not strike me her acouaint ance with Mir von Bernstorff would cut any figure in the case unless fol lowed by some overt act or some con Spiracy or something of that kind tha was connected with this case and I dt not understand that mere acquaint anceship with somebody. even if h, was enemy, ought to prejudice tn, case"
 Counsel for Mr. Ford excepted t, the ruling.
 Mrs. Austin told her tragic story il a law but clear voice in which therl was a quavering note denoting the eff fort she was making at self control She said she was born in Vermont 5 years ago and went with her husban and one son, Charles, to Sebastian nine years ago.
 Mir. Smiths testimony served as preface to that of Mrs. Austin. H was at Sebastian, a mile and aquarte from the Austin ranch working as ltOiH cutter Nllu MI. AQSAlAl 11Q LII latter's son, when a band of Mexica. raiders appeared. They robbed tn general store and a detachment c them rode away, taking the two Aus tins with them in cart.
 Mrs. Austin told of her terror whe the detachment, numbering five mel entered her house, and of the effort of her husband and son to reassur her The bandits took a shotgun an a rifle and some ammunition, an then rode away, with MT. Austin an his son still in the cart
 T must have become unconsciou and when l came to. the dog was lick ing my face" said the witness. "Whe | could muster the strength l fol lowed and found the bodies of my so and my husband. They were dead murdered"
 Smiths testimony showed that h telephoned to nearby villages givin notice of the raid on Sebastian. Th nearest troops, he said, were F mile away. Two of the band which kille the Austins, he said, were afterwar captured and hanged.
 Mr. Conrad identified himself as civil engineer. He produced de tailed map of the Brownsville distriC and identified various spots where | said there had been serious raids al tended by bloodshed.
 Adjournment was taken to Monday.