Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-07-10

grocery in Douglas on June 81. He re-
turned to Niger Head the same day,
he added, and returned to Aqua Prieta
on the next evening, June 22 Later
on June 25, he paid his bill at the
grocery remarking on the car incident
to the grocer, he concluded.
Cardenas was brought to Douglas and
his story checked carefully. All of his
statements were borne out by the ac-I
counts at the grocery, the proprietor
confirming his mention of the incident
at the time he paid the bill
Mayor Boubion of Aqua Prieta stated
that Cardenas' testimony tailed and
checked exactly with the report of his
officers.
Go Over Trail.
The presidente and number of Of
ficials covered every bit of ground em-
braced in his report Bouboin proceed
ed rapidly to outline the story of Mrs.
McPherson's famous trek to Aqua
Prieta, as he asserts his finding
strongly prove.
The results of this investigation lead
him to believe, he asserted, that Mrs.
Mcpherson was taken from Aqua Prieta
on the night of June % in an auto
mobile. She was first driven to. Il
point about three miles from Niger
Head mountain, and perhaps six miles
from Aqua Prieta, he states. Here the
party pulled out in the desert and
parked the car for a time, presumably
to reconoiter and confer. 1t was at
this point that the wood cutters OBJ
servation of the mysterious car tailed
with that given in the mayors report.
Leaving this spot, Bouboin continued,
the car was driven back in the direc-
tion of Aqua Prieta until a small
wooden shack used by Mexican fiscal
guards in inclement weather, was
reached. Mrs. Mcpherson then got out
of the ear the heAmayor said, and walk
ed in circular direction around the
hut many times, decreasing her circles,
with each turn. She then entered the
hut, he went on remaining there for
short time.
Returning to the car, the evangelist
was said to have been driven back to-
ward Aqua Prieta until the slaughter
house was reached, at which point she
again left the machine. Then, Bou-
boin asserted, the car proceeded into
Aqua Prieta, re- crossing the border in
to Douglas Immediately and not stop
ping there.
Left alone on the road, the report
continues, Mrs. Mcpherson struck di-
agonally across the desert to the
slaughter house, which is situated a,
short distance from the city limits and
right against the international line
fence She called for assistance here,
it was stated, but did not wait to an
swer the queries of the man who lived
there Instead, Bouboin said, she pro-
ceeded into Aqua Prieta, walking along
the border fence instead of returning
to the road, being followed by the man
of whom she had asked assistance.
When she arrived at the house of the
family who took her in, she refused
food or water, Notwithstanding her sup
posedly exhausted and famished condi-
tion, the report concluded.
Concluding Statement
Having concluded this phase of his
report, the presidente then launched in
to a stream of definite and direct tes-
timony and evidence which he said
proves that neither Mrs. Mcpherson nor
anyone with her was not and could not
have been further than seven miles
from Aqua Prieta during the time in
question without being seen by at least
one of the many fiscal guards, cow
punchers, ranchers and state officers,
who cover that district. At short
distance beyond the fiscal guard shack
mentioned in his report, the fiscal
guards are always encountered on
watch, and their patrol extends for
some As miles in all directions of Aqua
Prieta, it was stated. These guards
always sop every auto or wagon and
pedestrians to search for contraband
and inspect passports, he said.
The mayors story ended at Rancho
Gallardo, just beyond Niger Head
mountain, where many of the men who
had participated in the Mexican in
vestigation were called together to-
verify various details of the report.
1--WE are Thoroughly satisfied with the
results of our investigation, which has
been sweeping, indeed, the presidente
concluded. I'VE have only our duty to,