Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-06-26
q. was it still daylight when you

not give you just the hour, but !
should think it was about 8 o'clock.
The moon was up there (indicating)
and the mountain was now at my
left and started for the road.
After a while l came to a little tiny
shack of some sort, vacant, with
tin roof, and i went to the door AND
Knocked and called. 1t was vacant,
so / came back and had to lie
down very often and it was getting
cold, so l put my dress up over my
shoulders and wrapped it around
me when I laid down; L scraped the
dust up in little bundle for pill
low, thinking / would sleep there
until morning, and then ! would
hear a rustic and L thought it was
rattlesnake and 1 would get up
and go on. They say they have fol-
lowed my footsteps for about eight
miles along that road. / went on
and on until l saw a glow in the
sky and thought it must be viii
lage or q town; it looked like 90
miles away, but it looked like heaven
in the distance, and then ] got so
/ could see little lights, but had
only gone a short ways when these
little lights began to flash out.
was not more than a third of the way
down the road when the lights went
out. You can determine how long /
was making that trip, because
walked fast up to the time came
to the road and after that / could
not. kept calling but my voice
sounded so little. I thought what
would this woman do, and that is why
I called, I thought she would not
stay there, she would simply pack up
and go, so began to call and call.
The dogs were barking in the dis
lance, but that was all I could hear
Finally / came to a place where |
saw a great shed, which I thought
was a building, then 1 hollered again
and the dogs began to bark, then |
heard men swearing at the dogs and
telling them to be quiet and I ran
to the fence and went through the
gates. L went to this fence and I
said, will you help me, will. you
please helps me to find the police"
A man came out and said, What
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lice" He said, What you done?"
I said, 81 haven't done anything, but
want the police" / saw he was
foreigner and couldn't understand me
very we'll, and l thought had bet
ter not tell him all about it, but
finally told him that / had been
kidnapped and spirited away and he
said, who took you," and I told
him that some people, but I did not
go into details. I said, "Have you
telephone, I want to find the po-
seemed so far away. He said, mo,
have no phone" I said, "Have
you an automobile, "He said, NO.
said, "Have you a horse, He
said, 'No. You come here and rest
until morning, it will be morning
soon now r said, 'Have you wife
or any other ladies here?" He said,
"No." L said, What is this building?"
He said," ut is a slaughter house"
and 1 said 1 will go on, how far is it
to the first house where there will
be a lady He kept asking me
questions, who are you, what do you
want?" said, Please tell me how
far it is to a house where I can
get the police or there will be a
lady" Finally he grumbled some
| thing about it being mile. Instead
/ of going up that grade and over
the bridge, 1 tried to save myself even
that, and cut across a gulley up to
the road. I went along this road,
lying down frequently, and twice I
came to tiny houses. I did not know
I was in Mexico, but now that do
realize that every Mexican must
have a dozen dogs, the big ones
growled and the little ones yipped
! SO 1 didn't stop at these little houses
! because / saw bigger ones ahead and
I thought maybe 1 would find a pc.
liceman, and then I came to house
bigger than the rest. 1t had hedge
| growing around it, and I thought it
looked as though the people living
| there might be responsible people,
so 1 went and ratified on the gate
man spoke from a window and he
said something, I cannot be positive
although I was pretty we'll all in,
i but at any rate l said, Scan you
help me, will you please help me,
want to find the police" And then
he answered me in English and sail,
who are you and what do you
want?" He said, Come in" l saw a
little dog outside, the big dog was in
| side, so I went in and got as far as
the steps and I said, Have you q
| telephone. One reason I had gone to
this house was that saw that a
wire went into it and / thought it
was telephone wire. He said, mo.
| Sonora" He asked me if 1 spoke
Spanish and I said, NO" 1 said, Can
you tell me where the police are"
He said, There is a TELEPHONE just
one block down, just across 1 did not
know that block was going to be
SO long. I was going that way
down the walk and 1 got as far as
the gate and 1 fell I remember my
head was lower than the rest of
me and my arms went up. I was
there long while. The people in
the house evidently must have got
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