Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
immigration Officer and For
mer Federal Worker Ar
rested in New York.
ATECA HAD $4,000 CASH
WHEN SEIZED IN HOTEL
Quartet, Charged With Conspiracy
in Attempted Escape to Spain,
Freed on Bond.
BY the Associated Press.

! by Jne ASSoClaJeo PfeSS.
! NEW YORK. Nav A former pav-
master in the Mexican rebel army and
his secretary, who slipped through the
fingers of the law in Kansas City, were
arrested here today in possession of a
black bag containing approximately
$780, 000 with which officials believed
they were absconding to Spain.
! With them were found a United
States Government official and a former
United States Official who were charged
with conSpiring to assist the flight.
The one considered the biggest catch
is Salvador Ateca. the former rebel pay
master, who until recently held the
gambling concessions in the Mexican
state of Chihuahua, with the rebel Gen.
CaraVeo, former governor of Chihuahua.
His secretary is Antonio Maques.
| The others were Russell Mathews as
sistant director of immigration at Ell
Paso, Tex, and w. H. Fryer, former
assistant United States attorney at Ell
Paso.
Ateca and Maques were arrested in
Kansas City Wednesday by secret serv-
ice operatives as fugitives from Justice
from El PaSo. Their bail was set at
/ $4,000 each, which they promptly paid
out of the big black bag, and kept on
travelling
Thinking, officials believe. they had
outWitted the secret service Ateca and
MaqueS, with Matthews and Fryer. took
quarters in a Broadway hotel awaiting
chance to leave the country
There are two charges against Ateca
in Ell Paso. He is charged with violat-
ing the presidential neutrality procla-
nation by smuggling an airplane to the
Mexican rebel forces across the border,
and there is civil action filed in the
Texas city by the Republic of Mexico
and the State of Chihuahua seeking to
regain funds allegedly appropriated from
the Juarez city treasury
Pending hearing bearing on extradi-
ton to face these charges, the gambler
rebel and his secretary were held with
out bail by a United States commits
sioner. The two Americans we're per-
mitted bail of 50, 500 each on the con-
spiracy charge, but this time no hand
was allowed to reach into the bulging
black bag to pay bail.
Besides the bag with its golden cargo
mass of documents was seized. in
Guiding a notebook bearing references
to J. Gonzalo Escobar. former Mexican
rebel generalissimo. United States At
torney Charles II. Tuttle told the COM
missioner before whom the four pris-
oners were arraigned that Ateca was
charged with violating the neutrality
proclamation "in that he sought to i'm
port into Mexico munitions OF war with
out the consent Of the Secretary of
State of the United Staes."
Tuttle said he had also been in
formed by the Mexican consul general
who joined in this additional charge,
that Ateca and Maqueo had looted
banks and the public treasury of the
State of Chihuahua. 1t was not said
whether the pair had taken this money
with the sole intention of fleeing to
Spain with it, or whether they had
taken it, with or without rebel assist
ance, for the purpose of buying NUM-
tons for the rebels in the United
States and, when they found them
selves hampered in this design, decid
ing to use the money themselves.
Big Roll of U. S. Bills.
Among the items in the black bag
were a roll of United States bills
totalling $76, ,497; bag of Mexican gold
coin of a large but not Immediately
determined amount; II certificates Of
deposit on the First National Bank of
Ell Paso, drawn to the order of Leo P.
Shuster and indorsed by him and
Ateca, amounting to $l04,098.27; a
check to Ateca's order on the Cana
dian Bank of Commerce for s14.661,
and another on the same bank CT
$3.50, and a certificate of deposit on
the First National Bank of FL Paso.
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