Arizona republican., 1920-01-20
AMI R!CAN LIE [ IN # ARDY IN
 MEXICO ASSERTS
 DOCTOR WITNESS
Has Never Heard Of Mexi- can Being Punished For Killing U. s. Citizens Oaths Are Valueless
Republican A. p. Leased wIre]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 19.- After describing one outrage after an- other, which he claimed to have wit messed, Dr. John Hunter, an American physician of Nogales, told the senate subcommittee Investigating the Mex ican situation today he never had known of a Mexican being punished for killing an American in Mexico.
 There has been no safety for Ameri- can life or property in Mexico since 1910. he said T have known lot of Mexicans in that time. and I do not know one-and I know Carranza- whose oath I would accept"
 Dr. Hunter was at Guadalajara when the Americans occupied Vera Cruz. His account of the flight of the Americans from there was accepted as additional evidence of the higher re- gard held by Mexicans for British and German representatives. It was the British consul who afforded protection to the Americans at Guadalajara and German clerk at another town, who effected the release of Americans held by Mexican soldiers by declaring him. self a German consular officer.
 J. D. Ward, now farmer in Texas, gave the first instance in the commit tees record of an American scoring on the MeXicans. Ward shot three and got back to the United States without being captured. He was liv- ing on a fruit farm with his wife in 1915, he testified One night he was visited by soldiers led by one identified as a non commissioned officer in Car ranza's army. They had been there night, Ward said. he gave the leader some, but not enough to satisfy him, and he and his men tried to force their way through the door,
 Hide Under Bed
 T told my wife to get under the bed" he testified. T had made up my mind I would have to fight As the leader came in I fired and he fell. The others began firing and continued their. efforts to enter. I had estimated there were not more than eight or ten in the background when the controversy be- gan. Pretty soon another came in sight, and I let him have it, too, and a the outlines of another man, and I got him."
 The attacking party withdrew and the remainder of the night was spent by MT. and Mrs. Ward in hiding un- der the barn.
 the Mexicans on their way to his house had raided that of an Ameri- can negro, brutal1y attacking the mans wife.
 A Cherokee Indian, Odia Jacks, who was member of the Blalock colony, -eStlileO ne naQ been nelO 1J UdyS md ordered shot by Colonel Lopez de Lara, who insisted he was a Yaqui In lan and a spy Of Villa. Jacks is rom Pine Bluff, Arkansas. His tes- timony was corroborative of others who have told of outrages and depre- iations. His escape was an indirect 'esult of his enforced practice of med cine.
 American Flag Outrage
 He said he had a quantity of medi- ines and the Mexicans insisting he must know their uses compelled him o treat them. His supply ran low md he was given permission to go to rampico for more. There, through assistance of the American consul, he to America.
 When the train on which Mir | Hunter and other American refugees | vas on it's way from Guadalajara to l the occupants were sub ected, he declared to jeers and | hreats of the MeXicans at stations | trough which they passed. The Mex |
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