The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-19
Young Son in Washington
Tells About Raid of Mex
icaR Bandits
II a 4
ATTEMPTED TO
SHOOT THE BOY
Blood and Brains on the Dining Room
Floor = President Consulted Polk on
Mexican Situation.
Mexican Situation.

WASHINGTON, July 19.-There was
increased interest in the developments in /
the Mexican situation Thursday following
a long conference between President Will I
son and Under Secretary of State Frank /
L. Polk, at which, it is stated, relations
with Mexico formed a prominent topic.
Efforts to obtain an interview with the
President for Mrs. John w. Correll, wife |
dered near Tampico on June l6, We're UNI
successful Thursday. The President was
tied up by appointments with Republl-
can senators whom he had invited to dis
cuss the league of nations with him. Rep
resentative Mckeown of Oklahoma, who
has sought the interview for Mrs Correll,
will make another effort to get her in d.
rect touch with the White House, and
failing in that, with Secretary of State
Lansing, upon his return from Europe.
1t is also probable that Mrs CorrelI
will attend meetings of the house rules
committee, which are to be open, and
that she will be on hand to appear as a
witness at a moments notice, if the
committee wishes to hear her story Mrs
Corell's son, Joseph, IS years old, is
| also here, ready to tell his story to the
| President or to testify.
| The story which Joseph Correll, the
| l6-year-old son of Mrs John Correll, is
anxious to tell high government officials,
presents an intimate picture of the man
ner in which Mexcans make raids He
told of his father reading in newspapers
4 that protection would be given in Mexico
1 II. &c l.
| by his father, at Colonia, % miles north
| Vest of Tampico. The family moved there
| about June l.
! ''On the 10th of June between and II
o'clock, a. m" said young Correli, Il was
out across the road and had am axe chop
ping around, and two bandits, and the
rest in front, rode up to the house and
stopped Someone at Altamara told Us
that they had counted the gang and that
there were 53 men in the gang They
came up to where | was aud told me
to give them a gun and | told them
didn't have one and thay wanted 10
search the fouse and I at5it tf}efl rs sc
and search the house Ny father at that
time was sitting on the front poron Ties
spoke to me about searching tue house
instead of addressing my father
Two men entered the ipusc ana lttllt
=, my 1890 rifle and half dozen cartridges
BY this time the rest of the gang has
dismounted and all came upon the porch
and some of them continued into til,
! house.
'"They were not satisfied with the 81,
shells they found. but demanded more
told them ] had no more Fhereupor
one of them marched me into the house
,Hprodding me with the muzzle of his gun
: and compelled me to lead HIM around tn;
house, saying he would make me fine
ammunition.
After telling of further threats and o
!. being fired on by one of the Mexlcans
young Corre said:
In passing through the dining room
saw my father living on the floor Of the
kitchen in puddle of brains and blood
Then for the first time | felt afraid.
turned and walked on the porch again
which formed an l. near the corner o
TIE house There | saw the Mexican
who had tried to kill me- The instan
he saw me he threw up his rifle to shoe
at me again. | lodged back into th'
house and ran out the back way while
| the Mexican ran around the house Il
head me off
Il ran for the jungle as fast as | could
suppose the Mexican must have beef
some 40 PAGES behind me when he fired
The bullet PASSED over my head appar
emily veis close A second bali passed
through the collar of my jumper
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