New-York tribune., 1920-01-24
Mexican Slain
On Border Raid
Had Iron Cross
German Guns Used bv Car
ranzistas, Who Employed
Japanese to Make Bombs
for ''Invadins' U. S. Soil
Senators Obtain Facts
Federal Officers Stirred Re.
volt Under False Illusion
OF Recapiuring 3 States
By Wilbur Forrest

San ANTONIO. Tex, Jan. o5@Tha.
President Carranza directly. or Car
rama propagaNdists, now are MAKING
lists of all MeXicans killed or injured
on the American side OF the border
during the last few years. 10 offset
murders OF Americans in Mexico. was
asserted by Sepator Fall, chairman OF
the Senate committee investigating
Mexico, here to-day.
Mr.. Falls statement was in connec-
ton with the testimony of John Kleiber
District Attorney in the Brownsville
area OF Texas where during 1915 and
1916 organized Mexican raids were car
ried Oh under the "PIan Of San Diego"
which, the Senate committee Yesterday
developed. was organized and execute,
NItA the 4ld and consent Of Carranza
AId numbers Of HIS officials and amy
officers
Stirred to Revolt
hleioer testified to-day that MeAi-
cans living under protection of the
American flag on this Side y" of the Rio f!io
nrande We're fine. law abiding people
until Mexican plotters connected with
the Carranza army stirred them to re-
volt under illusion of "recapturinp'
leXas, New, Mexico and Arizona.
klelber testified voluminously re-
garding these raids and corrobora ted
statements OF previoVs witnesses that
;ney were organized and led by Car
Hanzistas He told of an attack on the
Brownsville passenger train in October
1918, when the raiders shot several
Americans, including an American
soldier.
TAey came UP after the train was de
rallied shouting viva Carramuai "
"Vva De la Rosa Viva pisania.' and
Kill tho gringo oldiers."
De la Rosa and Pisani. were Car
ranzista officers leading the bandits,
ihc witness testified. The witness him-
self escaped because the raiders
thought he was dead but they removed
his shoes and carried them along
Dr.. Mccain. an American health
officer, also lost his life in this disas-
ter. he witness said He likewise re
lated experiences OF trying to obtain
without success the cXtraditicn o. Mex
lean murdercrs afte~ they had escaped
to the Mexican side One Of these mur-
Gcrcrs, he declared. was seen two
weeks ago at Matamoras, Mex. in the
army He was on the stat! Of General
Lopez d Lara, nov Il candida,e for
Governor Of the State of Tamaulipas
Caesar kleeburg, of Kingsiield. Tex,
son Of former Representative Kleeburg.
told the committee that his investiga-
tions had connected Federal General
Nafattc. Of the Carranza army, with
many Of the raids on or near several
large border ranches which he was in
tcrested in
San Diego Plan Sanctioned
klecburg presented an affidavit sign
cd by former Mexican employee, cap
turcd and later liberated by the raid
crs. which disclosed when and where
the raiders secured the tools with which
they removed rail and thus wrecked
the Brownsville train. His inVestiga-
tlors also connected the raiders with
the Carra0za sanction of the "Plan of
San Dicgo,' the witness testified.
The committee room took on a war
like appearance to-day when Thomas
Maytield, Texas ranger and deputy shcr-
if Of Hidaleo County. Texas. was called
as witness. Hidalgo County is ada
cent to the Mexican border and was one
Of those counties in which raids took
place.
German Mauser rifles and German
ammunition were identified by the
deputy as those he had captured from
the raiders. He also identified two
cartridge belts filled with German cart
ridges taken from the bodies of raiders
killed in combat with posses led by
himself.
Maytield, a lean, tall specimen typi-
cal of the border, produced German
IRON cross which he said was found on
the body Of one of the Mexicans.
Military Passes Found
Ii was Maytield who arrested Mexi
can named Ramos, one Of the original
slgners of the plan Of San Diego" he
identified an original copy Of this plan
and military passes through the Car