The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11
PEONS USED AS SPIES
Former Army Officers Out
Of Work Also Used in
Shadowing Victims
SECRET SERVICE HEAD DEAD
Colonel Garcia, Who Had Key
to Handouts on Two Dead
Men, Also Found Slain

I LAREDO, Texas. June 10
' Texas rangers will be sent here at
the request OF District Attorney John
4 Walls TO investigate the killing
Wednesday night OF Gen, Lucio
niarco. a former officer in the
carranza army Of Mexico. This be-
came known late today when Walls
made public telegram from Gov
crnor Ncff in reply to the request
for rangers.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 10.
4 Wholesale plot TO kldnap and slay
all Mexican exiles in the United
states Of known revolutionary ten
doucics has been barred today by
United states border agents as the
result Of the kidnapping and murder
Of General Lucio Blanco and Col
onel Aureiio Martinez mt Laredo.
Texas, Wednesday night.
q. The plot has wide ramitications
: and is directed at the high officials
Of the former Carranza government
who have been In this country since
the death of their leader.
i.cons Used us Sicuihs
Poems, former minor military Of
flcers destitute and at the point of
starvation. and secret agents were
used by the master mind"' OF the
Mot to shadow the prominent eXiles.
At the opportune moment, bogus
telegrams lured them within strik-
Ing distance for the death stroke.
Practically every Mexican in this
country who helds position of
prominence and trust in the Carran7
"a government has been watched
for months.-
we have ways and means of
knowing what the Carranzists do
each day." said a Mexican who as
sisted in the expose. "A few dollars
a day and an agent IS hired. lie
may be a peon, or he may be a for
mer subaltern in Carranza's army.
unable to find work. We have
watched their ComIngs and goings.
When they get together for Junta,
We know all about 1t.
Lurcd by Bogus Wire
General Blanco was lured to- Lar
edo through these agents, kidnapped
A bogus telegrdm was sent Cen
eral Blanco at his home here and
/, lured him to Laredo and his
death.
Arrests OF the kIdnapers of Blanco
and Martinez promised yesterday by
District Attorney John A. Walls al
Laredo had not been made today,
bur are expected momentarily.
Investigations by federal agents at
Laredo since Thursday develop ed
new details as to the identity of the
Mexican officer whose body was al
so found In the river by searchers
yesterday morning with the key tc
the handcuffs that bound together
Banco and MARITIME in his pocket
He was not major as reported
but was known as Ramon Garcia
colonel in the Mexican army anG
chief of the Mexican secret service
along the Rio Grande.
His Death Mystery
Colonel Garcia was instrumental
In the arrest and execution of Gen
b eral Prune da, commander Of tn
garrison at Nuevo Laredo about fiv,
+, months ago.
\ How Colonel Garcia met his deatl
\ United States agents are unable I,
say, but are certain that he wa
directly responsible for the kidnap
Ing and murder OF the two exiles
The bodies OF Blanco and Mar
tlnez were IN badly decomposet
state when taken from the river
iHly were buried Immediately o
, me Mexican side of the river. Ef
iorts were made by Bernardo Blan
Co. brother OF the slain man, {
nave the bodies delivered TO hir
N Laredo for burial, but MeXica
authorities refused to give them VI
MEXICO CITY. June 10--Fedcrf
troops are waging campaign wit
mo quarter against rebels in north
eastern>-Mexico. Il was revealed &c
gay o war office dispatch froI
monterey said eL. Andreas Figu
gro teder. commander in Nuey
Non' surrounded and annihilated
q Fneoel force of 20 men under Isidr
ndono' which had been raiding an
p, IOoung ranches. The fight too
pace near Laguna de Sanchez an
ids'ed only half an hour. The rel
US were poorly equipped.