Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-11-15
OFFICIAL REPORT ON
MEXICAN OlJTRACE
Details of Various Deprada-
tions and Robbers Told in
Summary Just Compiled.

Washington. - Six employees were
murdered and more than $71,S95 in
American gold stolen from oil COM
panies operating in the Tampico oil
region during July, August and Sep
tember, according to an official report
just compiled, it was learned this
week. Six bandits implicated in two
of the outrages were arrested and two
of them publicly executed.
Carranza soldiers were implicated in
some of the outrages, the report stat
ed, although in some of the camps
of the region the federal soldiers were
behaving we'll On September 25 a
camp at ComaIe was raided by 400
Carranza soldiers who stole all the
clothing of the foreign employees and
drove away the last mule in the camp.
On August II the report shows two
masked bandits killed the head car
penter at a camp near FL Tigre in
the presence of his wife, the two being
the only persons in the camp at the
time, and stole money and property
totaling more than $780, August 10
three masked bandits entered Cara
patas and robbed Americans of money
and jeWelry totaling more than $500.
On August 16 Luis Gutierrez and an
American named Kenneth de Lacey
were robbed of the company pay roll
amounting to $4,000, between SoIedad
and Tepetate. Neither man knew a
f1 hn +nya
minutes before they started, but the
Mexican government officials had pre-
viously been notified in accordance
with Mexican regulations. On July 4
an attempt had been made by seven
armed men to hold up men carrying
the pay roll at almost the same. point.
but they we're -outwitted.
Continuing, the report says that on |
August 26 Mexican army paymaster, /
two officers and assistants comman- |
deered the launch of one of the oil /
companies, and after it was loaded f
with tequilla and beer, took it to Palo /
Blanco, where they entertained some .
notorious women of the town for five +
days. When in drunken orgy they I
set fire to the launch Bandits raided !
the camp at GuayabalilIo and stole I.
more than S12,219 in cash and clothing,
an automobile and food supplies worth
approximately S1700. On August two
Carranza soldiers robbed an American
at zapotal of $500, clothes and other
yaiuables. On August 4 at Tepetate,
a group of robbers held up two Amer
leans in the camp at night, but three
OF them were caught and turned over
to the authorities. Much of the stolen
property was recovered. The report
of this incident says:
This incident stands by itself in
that in the majority of the robberies
perpetrated previously the authorities
always had the excuse that the guilty
parties could not be found. In this
case the guilty men are in their hands,
together with unimpeachab1e proof of
their guilt
Seven men robbed the camp office i,
at the Alvarez terminal on August IA,
the report further says, taking Mexi-
can gold equal to $11,722 in American ;
money from the safe and personal ef-
fects of employees valued at $780, The
company complained so vigorously
that the military authorities arrested
.hree men who confessed, duplicating )
1 lieutenant colonel Of the federal
lrmy who was detained. Two of these
men were publicly executed August
Il. On September u. the camp at
oanueo was robbed of S72 in gold.
)n September 20 the pumper at the !
oaEzi pump station was killed.