Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-20
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san Antonio, Texas, Jan. 19.--
After describing one outrage after
another, which he claimed TO have
Witnessed, Or. John Hunter, an
American physician of Nogales,
told the senate subcommittee in
Vestigating the Mexican situation
today he never had known of a
Mexican being punished for killing
an American in Mexico There
has been no safety for American
life or property in Mexico since
1910" he said II have known a
lot of MeXicans in that time, and
] do not know one-and | know
whose oath | would ac-
cept."
DIR. Hunter was at Guadalaiara
when the Americans occupied Vera
CRUZ. His account of the flight Of
the Americans from there was ar
cepted as additional evidence of
the higher regard held by Mexi-
cans for British and German rep
resentatives. 1t was the British
consul who afforded protection to
the Americans at Guadalaiara and
German clerk at another town
who effected the release of Ameri-
cans held by Mexican soldiers by
declaring himself a German con-
sular officer.
Kills Three Attackers.
j. ID. Ward now farmer In
Texas, gave the first instance in the
committees record or an Ameri-
can scoring on the MeXieans, Ward
shot three and got back to the
United States without being cap
tured. He was living on a fruit
farm with his wife in 1915, he tes-
tilted. One night he was visited
by soldiers led by one identified as
a n-commissioned officer in Car
ranza's army. They had been there
before and tried to eXtort money.
That night, Ward said. he gave the
leader some, but not enough to sat
isfy him and he and his men tried
to force their way through the
door.
81 had told my wife to get under
the bed he testified. Il had made
up my mind ! would have to fight
AS the leader came in | fired and
he fell. The others began firing
and continued their efforts to en-
ter. ! had estimated t}aeFr-weFe
not more than eight or ten in the
background when the controversy
began. Pretty soon another came
In sight and | let him have 1t, too,
and moment later | managed toI
make out the outlines of another
man and / got him"
The attacking party withdrew
and the remainder of the night was
spent by Mr.. and Mrs. Ward in
hiding under the barn.
1t developed next day, he said,
that the MeXicans on their way to
his house had raided that of an
American negro, brutally attacking
the mans wife.
Ordered Shot as villa Spy.
A Cherokee Indian, Odia Jacks,
who was n member of the Blalock
nineteen days and ordered shot by
Colonel Lopez de Lara, who insist
ed he was a Yaqui Indian and a
spy of villa. Jacks is from Pine
Bluff, Ark. His testimony was cor
roborative of others who have told |
of outrages and depredations. His
escape was an indirect result of his !
enforced practice of medicine.
lie said he had a quantity of !!
medicines and the Mexicans in
sisting he must know their uses,
compelled him to treat them. His |
supply ran low and he was given |
permission to go to Tampico for |
more. There, through assistance of |
the American consul, he returned |
TO America.
When the train on which Mr.. |
Hunter and other American refu !
gees was on its way from Guada-
lajara to ManZanillo the occupants |
were subjected, he declared, TO |
jeerS and threats of the Mexicans
at stations through which they |
passed. The MeXicans were con-
vinced by manufactured news be-
ing printed, that their country and
the United States were at war, that
every American town on the bor-
der except El Paso had been cap
cured and that already IA Mexi
can army of 10000 was trampllng
the soil of the United States while
the cowardly Americans We're flee
ing"
At one place a large American
flag was swept over the ground
and then torn to strips. These
strips were then burned, the ashes
being thrown through the car win
dows into their faces.
GonZalo de la Mata, the Mexican
consul here, has received and an
nounced the instructions from the
Mexican foreign office relative to
the manner in which his govern
ment will regard any Mexican who
testifies. To all callers he has ex-
planned Mexico will regard them
as traitors.
1t was under the British flag
that Americans in Mexico, at the
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