New Britain herald., 1926-02-13
Il JUANA HOTBED
 OF VILE LICENSE
President Gales Interests Him,
 self in ReVOltins Situation
MANY WOMEN ATTACKED
Americans Seem to Bc Principal Tar get of Brutal Attacks by Natives Native Police Ofttimcs Worst or lenders Against Morals.

San Diego, Calf, Feb. Is LRy-.- Many complaints have been made that American women were mis. treated in Tijuana, and President Gales Of Mexico urges the closing of all objectionable resorts in the border town.
 In telegram last night to Mayor Palacio of Tijuana the president urged that all dives Of the border town be closed and that a vigorous investigation be pushed into the mis- treating of Audrey and Clyde Peteet, two American girls, who were drug ged and assaulted in Tijuana.
 The presidents message came on the heels Of the charges by Fred Marley, head of the United States customs office at the Tijuana line, thtat he had many complaints Of lntstreatment Of American women at the resort town.
 Police Arc Offenders.
 Testifying at the inquest into the deaths of the family Of Thomas Pe- teet. father of the assaulted girls, Markley stated that Tijuana police, who were supposed to protect visi- tors. have taken American women to hotels and attacked them while the women were under the influence of liquor.
 His testimony was supported by Captain J. M. Adamson, a detective sent here to investigate the fatal beating Of T. NJ. N. George Of At- lanta, Ca, in the Tijuana jail several months ago.
 Woman's Affidavit.
 Adamson said he had an affidavit from an American woman who de- clared she had been attacked in Tijuana and that he had received other complaints.
 The American state department entered the Peteet case yesterday, Secretary Kellogg inquiring of the American consul at Mexicali as to the progress of the Tijuana inyesti- gation.
 The Peteet girls and their father and mother committed suicide by in- halng gas In their home here a few days after the Tijuana incident. The coroner's jury yesterday returned verdicts that the family had come to their deaths by suicide resulting from "remorse and grief"
 Audrey and Clyde. who were visit ing a saloon in the resort town with their parents, disappeared after dancing with Chief of Police Zen aida Llanos of Tijuana, 1t Is charged. l. is alleged that the father was giv- en knockout drops" after he had introduced the girls 10 the police chief. After the father located his daughters and learned of their eX- periences, he returned to San Diego, called his family together and car ried out the suicide pact.
 Suicide While Despondent.
 The jury charged that Audrey Pe- teet "came to her death while Respondent with grief and remorse over the fact that she had been out ragged by Chief of Police Llanos," In the case of Clyde Peteet the verdict was that Luis Amador. a Tijuana saloonkeeper. had attacked her. Both Llanos and Amador are under arrest in Tijuana.
 In spite Of the word received from President Gales by Mayor Palacio. the resorts of Tijuana were still open last night.
 Besides Amador and Llanos, Re- gugio Alvarez and Francisco Navar. TO, bartenders; Francisco Gonzales, police officer; Juan York Sang. man. 2 ger of a hotel. and Salvador Espin- osa. taXi driver, are being held in Tijuana.