Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1928, Page 13

THE SUNDAY STAR: WASHINGTON. P. -C. OCTOBER -21. 1928—PART 1. i3 TARCENY CHARGE ' BRINGS 25 YEARS Frisoner Convicted of Show-| Window Thefts—Others | Are Sentenced. | Abraham Wallace, colored. was sent | to the penitentlary for 25 years vester- | day by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division 1. Wallace has a criminal record dating back to 1902. He was recently convicted of breaking into the show window of a Seventh strect store #nd stsaling a quantity of shoes May 7 The chief justice gave him 15 vears on the housebreaking count and an | jonal 10 years for the larceny. sistant United States Attorney Walter | Shea prosecuted Wal Edgar Belfield. colored, was sentenced to cerve a total of 22 years in the penitentiary following his conviction on | a charge of assault to kill, robbery and housebreaking committed last Spring Frederick Howell, colored. who par- ticipated In three of the charges of | housebreaking and larceny. was given | & total of 19 years in the penitentiary. John Marino was sent to the peniten- tiary for five years. He shot at John A M. W. Kennedy, 420 H strect, June 30 | constituted an educational opportunity last. | AMERICAN. HELD BY MEXICAN BANDITS. TELLS OF CAPTURE | scruples against decreasing the white, | it distinctly outside their duties to de- | Engincer, Retrieved by Pay- ment of $10.000 Ransom, Trapped by Rebels. Hostage for Gold in Mountain: Stronghold Depicts Life of Outlaws. Bumsted. mining engin United States Department of State, ments of the story Mr. Federal ~ government smploving ten eppears below. Written Exclusively for the Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance BY E. J. BUMSTED. I3 Bumsted has writ- and . BUMSTED. | v - A ways to be m good argument with a [tle interference. Periodically there umer district, to inform me that the major Mexican, they waited. They got their to-me stofies-of kidnapings: nd-they | money, too, and I am sure that is the | were food for thought. only reason I lived to tell the tale, for | these bandits have no conscientious | American population of Mexiso. And I acquired the doubtful distinction of hav- My only companions at the mine were 20 Mexican miners, and they considered Being de- | fend me against bandits. fenseless against even the smallest force |ing lived longer as the captive of Mexi- | of bandits I adopted the obvious policy | can money) were not paid the head of | the band before the Now that they're all a matter of his- | Sun. tory. my experiences as the captive of | | Mexican bandits strike me as having | even regretful, manner didn't increase | And it | | was made to me on almost every day of vouchsafed few Americans. At the time I was certainly not so|the twenty-one of my captivi philosophic’ about them, for any philo- |the chieerfuness of the prospect. setting of another | That this announcement was always | made to me in a most courteous, and y. To the best of my knowledge, the only reason Couples who wish to sit on the park sophic reveries were likely to be inter- | the threat was never made good was benches in Budapest, Hungary, must|rupted, by the announcement that I| that I was able in emergencies to con- now be ready to prove that they are would 'be placed in “La Tierra” (the vince my captors that the money would | married by producing marriage certifi-| earth). the following morning, if the be paid “manana’ cates, passports or other documents on ' rather large sum of 20,000 Mexican gold | (about $10,000 in Ameri deman: dollars or pe: (tomorrow) ! than dead. and as “manana’ As I was more valuable to them alive seems al- can bandits than any other American. | and the added distinction of having cost more to ransom. But I also obtained a vivid insight | Into the psychology, manner of living | and methods of operation of the so- called Mexican bandit. I say “so-called” only because the bandit himself would be deeply aggrieved if you called him that. His view of the matter is that he is a patriot fighting against a cruel oligarchy ruling his country against the best Interests of Its people. Banditry Is Avocatian. 1 Any little apparent banditry he may practice is merely a means to a good end, a means of obtaining funds for the purchase of arms and ammunition to carry on the “great crusade to lib- erate his country from the despote ruling it” Before my kidnaping I had found pienty of reason to suspect that some day T might be a hostage of bandits. In fact. I made preparations against | such a contingency before I went into Mexico this last time, by taking out as much insurance on my life as I could | get. I lsarned nothing which would | allay these premonitions when I arrived last May at the Humboldt mine of the | Alvarex Mining Co., which I was to manage. | ‘The mine is only 6 miles from Ixtlan, in the State of Nayarit, and in the town there is a garrison of Federal troops. But the troops, I found, might as well have been in Mexico City- for all the protection they afforded the people who didn't live right in the town ‘The soldiers seem to regard it as un- healthful to stray away from the boun- daries of the town, and the bandits roam the adjacent countryside with lit- ANSBURGH & BRO 8 ANNIVERSARY best in one of these. sizes. Spe:cial! Fashionable $3.95 Fall Millinery $2.55 Felts. velours and the new tinsels- in truly charming shapes and colors. Hats for every woman—be she Miss or Matron. You'll know you look your Think. too, of the savings! Large and small head-_ Coats—Deeply Furred, Smartly Styled—Special y Coats that bear the unmistakable stamp of quality—of superior workmanship. 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Button-down- youngsters. quality—and offered at remarkable savings! Fashioned Sizes 7 to 12 Think—they're first of attempting to cultivate their good | will. That I was eventually kidnaped is indication enough that my good-will efforts were not sufficiently inclusive. However, I gained the apparent friend- ship of a local rebel chieftain, Lorenzo | Perez, and he gave me a “salvo con- dueto” (safe conduct). It was only after I was kidnaped | that I learned Perez was playing a lone hand and did not acknowledge al- legiance to the general of the forces | which captured me. although both os- | tensibly were fighting in the same cause against the same “desoots.” But after I received my salvo conducto T was lul- led into the belief that it was enough to assure me a quiet and peaceful ex- istence Prelude to Capture. ‘Therefore, when on the morning of August 25. a band of about a dozen rebels appeared at the mine and asked for something to eat. I had no suspicion of their real mission. These requests for food handouts frequent and 1| always complied with them to the | best ‘of my ability Even when the leader of the littl> band added to his request for food the | statement that ne had been sent by Maj. Guadalupe Flores, » sort of ad- jutant to the general in charge of the was nearby and wished me to visit nim. I didn't suspect anything uriusual. Knowledge of the bandit's real ob- ject wouldn't have nelped me anyway. It I hadn't gone with them peaceably. they would certainly have taken me by | ferce. 1 called Lino Herrera, my mozo | or personal servant. and we mounted mules and set out with the bana. We rode with them two hours before we arrived at the major’s headquarters, a small ranch near Sejulapa. Maj. Flores was excessively polite, | but also businesslike. The leaders of | his patriotic cause, be informed me, | needed money to purchase amunition. It would please them if I would con- tribute 30.000 gold pesos to their mr-\ fers. No threats were raade at first. On the face of things, I was merely | being asked to make a donztion to the “cause.” Of course T realized that actually T was being held up, but I returned | politeness with politeness, and professed | to. believe that I was merely being | asked for a contribution. I pointed | out that I was an American, and, therefore endeavored not to take sides in Mexican internal affairs, 1 added that I really regretted tnat I knew very little about the zreat struggle | being waged against the “despots.” The major listened to me patiently but without any signs of interest until I concluded with the. statement that I didn't have the 30.000 pesos to give him.. | That ended all discussion. I was | ordered to mount my mule again, and | under an .escort of sfv men I wa started for @ destinaticn unknown to m My mozo was allowed to accom- pany me. It was 8 cclock in the evening when we started, and we traveled without even a momentary halt until 4 the following atternoon We rode in a steady downpour, muddy and slippery and I was kept on the trail only by the mule’s instinet. Our destination proved-in -be one of those bandit strongholds which can casily be defended by a small force against greatly superior numbers. It was a mountain top called Mojoneras, about 45 miles- from Ixtlan and rising some 3.000 feet from the Santiago river. It commanded a view of. the surrounding country on all sides for miles and any apptroaching force could have been detected at leas! a three- hour ride away. A long, steep, winding trail led-from the valley, and this trail was well covered by a rock fortification in which at all times there were five lookouts equipped with high class prismatic binoculars. 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