Arizona republican., 1920-01-15
ADDED PROOF IF MEX. :" CRUELTY GIVEN SENATORS
Convincing Recital Of Out rages Against U. s. Citi- zens Given By Expert Witnesses-TelIs Of Mur- der of Roney And Boles By Federals
Republican A. p. Leased WIrsI

 Stories of terrible cruelty, unredressed murders and devastation of properties were told the senate subcommittee in vestigating the Mexican situation to- day by men in close touch with con ditions in Mexico. T. M. McBee, cattleman from border town; James J. Britt, lawyer from Tampico, and George E. Blalock, once the head Of what was the largest colony of Ameri- can farmers in Mexico, and who now is operating a small grocery store here, were the witnesses. The effect of this testimony was along the line of witnesses .heard in Washington that the insecurity of American life and property in Mexico is growing greater.
 Britt, who reminded the committee that he was not employed by any oil company, asserted that American life was worth more in the Argonne than it is today in the country about Tam pico." He entered the United States only two days ago. He is one of the men who assisted in caring for the bodies of F. J. Roney and Earl Boles who. were killed in the oil fields De cember 80. The three had dined to- gether Christmas day.
 Britt appeared confident that the men were Killed by Carranza soldiers.
 They were killed within the Carranza lines" he said, and the bullets we took from their bodies were those used l by the bandits. Moreover, BOles, after he had been brought to the ground by a bullet in the ankle, had been at tackled from behind by a man with g machete. The blade had been thrust far into his body, turned downward and then up again. The rebels in that part of the country do not carry ma chetes. The soldiers do."
 Killing Theory Supported
 His theory that the killing was done by soldiers was further supported by telling how the paymaster of one of the oil companies. who resembled RO- ney. received permission about the same time the two had left to carry a certain amount of money into the oil fields. This information was trans nitted to the Carranzistas. Britt be lieves, and those who killed Roney> and paymaster.
 He told the committee that the Americans stood guard over the bodies until an autopsy could be held
 We had one experience of neglect ing that phase of such a case,' he said when James Wallace was shot. know for a fact he was not a drinking man and yet the claim set up by the MeXi- > cans was that he was drunk. AnC this is what had happened: They had poured tequila into his mouth anC over his face after he was dead in der that the odor might support theiI claim,
 Britt, who was a soldier in the tanR corps of the American army in France i, confirmed to the committee the recon mendation that was attributed to Sec retary of Finance Luis Cabrera that members of the American Legion Iu Tampico should be deported- The mem bership he said. was nearly 400. What are you going to do?" askec , the chairman, 'are you going to get out?"
 .'we won't get out if the United States government stays behind us he answered
 Four of the members of the American Legion are MeXicans who served witE the American army. Britt said that arrested.
 1, Colony Forced to Leave
 The story of the disappearance of the ''Blaloclz colony was told by G. F Blalock, it's founder. He told the com : mittee it once comprised about 1Os families, all Oklahoma farmers, in very 7 moderate circumstances. When he , went into the venture he and relative had in it S4000. Tn addition he had 7 about s2000. He told the committee of the aspiration of the men to acquire and develop their own homes, and how the order or suggestion from the Amer ican consul at Tampico caused them ! Tn Mexico since 1903.
 Telling of five murders of Americans he said no one had ever been put tc death for the crimes, and no show ot . punishment given in the majority of the cases.
 Reference to the killing of Gabriele , Porter. whose father lives here, was made by the witness.
 "Who was he2" inquired Senator } Fall.
 'Only an American" was the reply.
 The answer characterized the bitter ness of his entire testimony. His ar raignment of Carranza. Cabrera and other members of the government was as unstinted as it was caustic. He frankly charged government officials with misappropriation of government 1 funds and insisted the spirit displayed l in official circles found it's reflection in the roheries by the common people. Burglaries and ordinary robbery in Tanpico, as well as in the country places he declared to be common.
 Treatment of Companies
 Although not connected wit hthe oil industry he supplemented much of the testimony already in possession of the committee regarding the treatment ac- corded oil companies by the Carranza government. adding, however. that in his opinion it would be well for all the men engaged in the work there to get out if they could not get protection. He was reminded of the importance of continuing the production of Mexican wells. but his reply was that Mexico without her income from the wells would be starved out in three months"
 Their bodies were located in a fis- sure 100 feet deep. The necks of both were broken and the heads of the bodies otherwise mangled. On Sellers a remnant of the rope remained. Me Bee said no one ever had been arrested for the murders, but he frankly eX- pressed his own opinion as to who did it, adding that his opinion was that of many other men, along the border, who believed the boys had been killed be- cause they were endeavoring to find erfdanceA tn fIaa idnfffNr of thiar-as