Arizona republican., 1920-01-24
WITNESSES LINK .CARRANzA WITH
 RAIDS IN TEXAS
Was Part of "Plan of San Diego" Is Testimony-No Aid Forthcoming From Mexican Authorities in Stopping Expectations, Officers Declare
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas Jan. 23.- County sheriffS. officers of the ranger service, customs collectors and district attorneys testified before the senate sub committee Investigating the Mex ican situation today they had not sue ceeded in obtaining from the Mexican authorities any cooperation in the prevention of border raids The dec laratfons of these witnesses were SUD- ported by those of others who added to the committees record details Of numerous attacks made by Mexicans during the border war of 1915-16.'
 Corroborate Charges Against Carranxa
 Testimony corroborative of charges that Carranza and other Mexican off ctals were aware of and encouraged the leaders who were operating under the plan of San Diego" was given. and few of those who had taken part in the running down of the raidfng bands were heard. One of the sheriffs who testified was Octavio Guerra, a naduralized Mexican of Starr county. He told of a confession made to him by one Of the raiders whom he cap tured in which he was informed Car ranza soldiers were, in fact, the raiders and that their movements were di- rected by Carranza officers.
 Documentary evidence to the same effect was presented. It was the att tested confession of a Mexican priS- oner and had been made a part of a itpOfl ItHucIcu OH 1stptstlll <tnuSTSOu. then commanding Troop A. Twelfth cavalry. The prisoner had signed the statement saying his detachment was a small army unit commanded by a major of the regular establishment, and that after they had been marched some distance north of the Rio Grande he had halted them and read to them his orders. They were that they were to assist in recovering land taken by the United States from Mexico. The major. the prisoner added, had added that Carranza had so ordered.
 Husband and Son Slain
 Mrs. Nellie F. Austin, whose husband and son were put to death by raiding party in 1915 near Sebastian, Texas, told the committee the story of their removal by bandits, angered because they could not procure from them only an old rifle and shotgun She was i'll when the Mexicans were at their cred from a faint their entrance of the house had caused, one of the MeXi- cans was holding a gun against her son, 30 years old, while her husband was held outside the house. Three times she became unconscious for brief intervals before the Mexicans drove away with the two men. Her husband called to her not to worry; they would return in d few minutes. They disap- peared around bend in the road and sue ilcdEQ tfS fOuSy UT IHe squad. When she got there, the Mexi- cans had gone. Both her husband and son were dead.
 ". D. Vann. sheriff of Cameron 1 county, testified that on one occasion ! he believed he had secured the coop eration of the Mexican authorities in | those known to be guilty.
 Representations were made in the case of one indicted for murder and resulted in his detention by the Mexi- cans and the governor of the Mexican border state ordered his return to the | United States. He was shot on the | Mexican side, the allegation being The | had tried to escape.'
 Raiders Led by Army Officers
 Declarations that the raiders often | wore Mexican army uniforms, that | their leaders, in many cases, were | proved to be Mexican army officers, 1 and that the raids were directed by | high army officers were supplemented | today by the placing in evidence of. a | quantity of German ammunition and | made guns taken from cap | tured raiders in 1915-1916. Additional | reasons for believing German nation ality gave immunity in 1915 was indi- | Der, district attorney of the border | county. He was on train that was | attacked and footed by Mexicans north | 1f Brownsville. Two of the passengers, | who, were reported to the attacking | party as Germans. were unmolested. In | that raid. Dr. E. s. Mccain, the state | health officer. three soldiers and the | engineer. were killed. Almost all the | passengers were robbed
 Thomas Mayfield, then Texas ranger and now sheriff of one of the | border counties. told of a raid Septem- per |. 1915. in which four Americans were killed and one captured. Int captured man was terribly mutilated before he was murdered by being thrown itno the Rio Grande.
 It appeared probable tonight the | hearings would be concluded tomor- ,ow. the committee going to Fl Pass Sunday.
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 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 23.-