Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1930, Page 22

THE ROAD TENPORARLY | Five Weeks in @ Bandit Camp’ FREED FROM WRIT Train Makes Schedule in Florida Tax Controversy After Being Levied On. By the Associated Pr AVON PARK, Fla., April 14 —Atlantic Coast Line Raiiroad property, including & passenger train, 3 locomotives, motor and freight cars and 60 miles of track- age, was released temporarily yesterday | from attachment made by Sheriff Oscar Wolff, who levied for alleged unpaid | taxes. Train No. 192 was released in time | to permit it to make its scheduled run yesterday to Haines City. , This train | southbound is 191 and was levied upon | Saturday at Serbring, Fla. where the mail contract terminated. There were no passengers aboard at the time of the | tlest sight I have ever looked at. San J. E. Bristow, mining engineer Pex.., was ed 9 by- of Angelo, Tex.. was_captured March Mexican bandits, who held him for ran- som. Wednesday, after & month of peril and privation, he was set {ree. Here, for the first time, Mr. Bristow writes the story of his experiences. BY J. E. BRISTOW. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘TEPIC, Nayarit, Mexico, April 14 (N.AN.A).—This bandit business is not very profiitable for the bandits, and it was mighty poor business for me during the nth I spent climbing ruountain sides or compelled to hide in canyons in the wilds of Nayarit so my captors wouldn't be caught. When I saw the railroad Wednesday morning by moonlight it was the pret; could have kissed the rail, I was so seizure. The release was ordered by County | Attorney J. M. Lee after a conference | with railroad officials, at which, Mr. | Lee said, he was given assurance the | taxes would be paid promptly. | H. E. Pranklin of the Coast Line's | division general counsel’s office assured | Col. Lee the railroad would pay imme- | diately following upon the settlement of | & question of discrimination in assess- ment which is to come before a con- ference of State officials and railroad officers at Tallahassee this morning. The county attorney has provided for & return of the property for placing under the original attachment provided there is any undue delay in the settle- ment, Col. Lee stated. —e YOUNG USHER IS HERO AS THEATER BURNS| Discovers Flames, Then Helps Maintain Order as Patrons Quit Building. By the Associated Press. WOBURN, Mass., April 14.—The | courage and cool-headedness of a 17- year-old usher boy saved 300 children from a fire which swept the Strand moving picture theater here late yes- | terday just before the show started. As| it was, 15 persons were slightly cut or | burned, and the theater was damaged to _the extent of $50,000. Five minutes before the curtain was to go up the usher, Jerome Lynch, 17, Tocal high school boy, noticed a flicker- ing back of the screen. He went to in- vestigate with a janitor and found the curtain had already caught fire. Walk- ing back calmly to the middle of the auditorfum, he announced that there was a slight fire backstage and asked the audience, with few exceptions ehil- dren, to walk out_quietly. Some of the children screamed and pushed, but Lynch and George Patten, manager, succeeded in getting all out. FUGATE MURDER JURY, HUNG, IS DISCHARGED New Trial of Alleged Mob Killers to Begin Today—Five De- fendants Remain. By the Assoclated Press. IRVINE, Ky., April 14 —A jury trying L. K. Rice, Quicksand High School principal, one of the eight persons ac- cused of participation in the mob mur- der of Chester Fugate, reported at 3:03 p.m. yesterday that it was unable to agree. When the foreman reported that further deliberation would be useless, Judge Sam Hurst dismissed the ju Court was adjourned until 9 am. to- day, when one or more of the five re- maining men charged with murder was to be tried. Fugate, held at Jackson charged with | the murder of Clay Watkins, was taken | from the jail by a mob last Christmas, riddled with bullets, and left in a ditch for dead. Despite nine hours’ exposure in snow and water and 13 wounds, Fu- gate lived for some time after the shoot- ing. The Commonwealth contends that he named his assaliants. The six men charged with murder all are relatives of Clay Watkins. D. C. EDUCATOR TO SPEAK | 6. H. Hanessian to Address Pitts- | burgh Citizenship League Saturday The work of the Americanization | School Association of Washington will be discussed by S. H.'Hanessian, presi- | dent of the organization, in an address in Pittsburgh Saturday before the American Citizenship’ Leaguté and the Education Association of Western Pennsylvania. He will stress the'de- sirability of higher standards for nat- uralization and of individual "interest in newcomers to this country. A. E. Rejall, supervisor of adult edu- cation of the New York Department of Education, visiting here, has made a study of the co-operative work between the Americanization School and the Americanization Association. GIVE SERVICES FREE Dentists Will Examine Children on May Day. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chairman of the local child health May-day com- mittee, today announced that the Dis- trict Dental Association had yolun- teered to have a number of its members give free service for the examination of children at dental clinics on May day. Dr. Murphy announced that all school teachers may make appoint- ments for any children desiring dental examinations in these clinics by com- municating with the regular school doctors. British Drink Bill High. LONDON, April 14 (#)—Great Brit. ain’s drink bill is put at $1,400,000,000 for last year by the United Kingdom Alliance. Brewers’ profits were $12: 500,000. Expenditures for wine increased 7 per cent in a year; those for beer and epirits were about the same as in 1928. Ask About Our Easy Monthly Payment Plan $-Piece Parlor Suites Antiques 3-Piece Overstuffed Suites Reupholsterinfinishg ; | | thankful. A month with bandits in the mountains of Nayarit would make a Christian of any man—that is, if he managed to get home to tell about it. | When I arrived in Tepic weeks ago and started into the mountain country to look at a mine, I didn’t know I would not be back here for so long, or that I would travel more than 150 miles and have only a blanket to sleep on and under and just the sky for a roof for more than a month. If I had had any such thought as that I would have stayed home, rested my 63 years by my own fireside and tried to find a mine in my back yard. Left Tepic March §. T started from Tepic March 5 by automobile to look at & mine I had made a payment on. This mine is near a little ranch called Rancho San Tafe, about 60 miles from Tepic. That doesn't seem far, but the mere number of miles doesn't mean much in thls country, especially when you have to cover most of m'fi‘ on a mule and aever on level ground. We went first by automobile to Santa Maria Del Oro. There we left the road and took to muleback. I had engaged a man named Carlos Fields as an in- terpreter. 1 don't speak Spanish. I needed some one who knew the country and could get along with the natives. Fields had hired two other men for me, Alfonso Occiguida and Emilio Perez. They were to help at the mine. There were also two mozos along. Mozos | are sort of all-around men, very neces- sary in Mexico. One of them was in chgrge of the mules. We had nine of | those animals. We left Santa Maria Del Oro with our mule train and took the mountain trail to the mine, We were two days on the road. The night of the second day we reached Rancho San Tafe. We expected to camp there while I was looking over the mine. It isn’t much of a place, this so-| called ranch. The house fs built of grass and cane and has only one room A family lives there, a man and his wife. Persuaded to Stay. side, looked things over and decided what to do about operating. ‘That night about half-way down the steep side of the mountain. I planned to leave for Santa Maria Del Oro the next night, for we had completed our arrangements for our work and were eager to_get back and start things going. But Fields objected to leaving and talked me into staying another day. Fileds l“{‘id ‘e w';anlednfi;o l‘ook .ltlnl possible lead property up the river . |fle way, The river is in sight of the mine and is in the valley east of where | we were. It is called Rio Santiago. I agreed to do as Fields wished. ‘The night of that next day we were sit- ting around outside the little ranch house discussing how would work the mine. It was around 7:30. Suddenly, six men brandishing rifles came running into the clearing. I could see them in the moonlight, and they looked dangerous. I was sitting next to Fields. When I saw these men I leaped up and ra into the house. I thought there were rifles there. car, and when we gave up the car and took to the mules the rifles had been taken along. So I was sure the guns were in the house. But they weren't. Captives Mount Mules. I had hardly gotten into the house when three of the bandits were on me | They jabbed their rifles into my stom- ach. I knew the answer to that, and held my arms up. I have only cne hand. I held that in the air, with| the stump of the other as erect as I could get it. Flelds came in and the bandits took us outside. Fields told me we had to mount our mules and go with the| bandits. I mounted my mule and Fields | and Occiguida did the same with theirs. | The bandits pointed a gun at Emillo Perez, who is a little fat, and he scur- ried out and climbed aboard a mule. The bandits led the way. We moved | around the mountain, crossed a little | clearing and climbed to the summit ot & graggy knob. Not a word was spoken. We arrived at a clearing and found a man sitting on a rock. He looked us over. This man was Cruc Delgado. He had two front teeth missing, there was a squint in his left eye, he had & droopy moustache and all in all he was a tough looking customer. After much trading back and forth Fields informed me I must pay these fellows 30,000 pesos, which is $15,000, to get away. I laughed, thrust my hands into my pocket, pulled out 40 silver pesos and offered it to them. I told Fields to say that was my pile. Asks for Blank Checks. The bandit chief wouldn't take it. Fields talked with the man who had headed the bunch who caught us. His name was Chane Flores. Flores talked with his chief. Finally Fields told me I had better give him, Fields, a couple of blank checks signed with my name, as he had made a deal to release me for 1,000 pesos. He sald he would go to Tepic and get the money. I have an account with & firm in Tepic, the only bank in the whole State of Nayarit, and Fields knew it. I told him I had only 800 pesos there. Fields said that would be all right, that he would raise the remainder himself. I didn’t want to sign the checks with- out filling in the amount, but Fields got pretty vicious with me and I had to do it. With the armed bandits standing around, I told Fields I knew he wouldn't ‘Tapestries, Mohair, Brocades and Velours Also Chair Caneing and Porch Rockers Splinted by Our Ex- perts at the Now Pre- | vailing Low Prices for The following morning we climbed to | the mine, which is up the mountain| we went back to the ranch, which is| We had had them in our Two Days Only. \ ‘Write, Phgne or Call | Metropolitan 2062 Estimates and Samples Given Free Clay Armstrong | ‘ ! | Upholst: Captured Oil Man Learned Language of Mexican Outlaws and Taught Them American Game of Poker. be back and that he was going to do me. He left, and I haven't seen him since, He never#i)et any money, though. After 1ds departed the bandits moved a little and camped. There we waited two days. The other men with us the bandits sent to the mine, telling them to work it. They took all of my ore for the use of the bandit gang and confiscated our mules. ‘The bandits did a lot of quiet talk- ing among themselves. I couldn't catch most of what was going on, not know- ing the language. That is, I didn’t know it then. But I can talk a lot of it now. Experience a Nightmare. We_kept moving and hiding, moving and hiding. The whole thtXIi was a nightmare. I worked hard to keep the bandits friendly. They were decent to me generally, but once in a while their real nature would show. They tried to keep me fed. One day food was very short, as we had had to stay in the mountains. The federal soldiers were chasing us, in the hope of rescuing me, so the bandits had to lle low. All we had that whole day were three eggs. And the bandits gave me two of those. For five days we lived on bread and water. ©Once five of the gang went to a vil- lage and got drunk. Then they wanted | to hang me. But the chief, Delgado, intervened. The bandits were getting tired of waiting. I know they would have shot me if the soldiers had caught up with us. It was to my best inter- ests to help them evade the soldiers. There really was little chance of these feliows being caught; however. They had a spy system equal to that of the war, and they knew all the time what was going on. One night, when we.were out of food and my stomach was about caved in, we | camped under a tree where a lot of wild turkeys were roosting. The ban- | dits hesitated to shoot the turkeys for tear theSsound would bring the soldiers | g::m us. We were close to the soldiers’ p. Taught Bandits Poker. I learned to play the bandits' card games and I taught them to play poker to while away the tedious hours. We made one big trip, traveling from | noon one day till 5 the next morning, | to get to the voleano Ceboruco. There we made our-final camp. I was worn | out. I had lost my glasses the third day and that made things even more | difficult for me. There were soldiers | on both sides of the canyon where we | camped. We hid behind the rocks. I Hemstitching . Pleating M. E. HOLLEY 2651 15th St. NW. Col. 9378 $000000000000000, §F UR SCARFS Bring n your out of-date Scarfs and we will remodel them in the latest afrald that the soldlers a8 its were, bandits decided .to let me final day. of captivity ibout me and-said those eight Mexicans, And. especially that fellow with the squint eys, (Copyright, 1930.) el i AMBASSADOR EDGE VISITS GRAVES OF 3-AMERICANS Wreath Placed at Foot of Monu- ment to First Yanks Who Died in World War. By the Associated Press. NANCY, France, April 14.—A visit yes- terday to the graves of the first three American soldiers killed In the Great ‘War, Gresham, Enright and Hay, was the first important feature of the second industrial inspection tour made by Am- bassador Walter E. Edge. In presence of Mayor Vantillard and of the whole population of the lit- tle village of Baphelmont, where the soldiers died, the Ambassador placed a wreath at the foot of the monument erected there by the American Legion. He then drove to the French cemetery at Champenoux, placing a wreath of gow;rs on the monument to the French ead. Last night the Ambassador received first-hand information about the great iron industry of Lorraine in the course of a dinner given in his honor. Water to Be Gift to Poor. MATA, Ecuador, April 14 (#).—Five hundred kegs of water, the gift of the mayor, will be a treat to the poor on the forthcoming celebration of the 100th anniversary of Ecuador's independence. This town seldom has a rain, and water is brought in tank cars from a river :101"1‘:““ away and sold by the keg and rink. styles. NEW ENGLAND FURRIER! 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Although slightly unseasonable warm weather is expected to continue, more cloudiness and rain, predicted for today, was expected to result in still lower mercury readings. A rain of 0.24 of an inch that fell at Fort Worth, Tex., was accompanied by a high wind and heavy hail and did damage of approximately $25,000. Street cars were halted, shingles were blown from roofs and small structures were toppled over. Scattered showers broke a two-month drought yesterday in Central, East Cen- tral and Southern Oklahoma. More than an inch of rain was reported in wgllf "c"amfll 'h began falling in Ka: owers whic] n n- sas Saturday night continued yesterday and through the Parts of East- ern Kansas were drenched. Arkansas City, McFarland and Junction City re- | celved good pains. ‘The French high commissioner for the Rhineland, Germany, has prohibited the performance at Wiesbaden of a play based on the Dreyfus affair. 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