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MURDER IN MEXICO.
FIVE PERSONS TRIED.
THREE FOUND. GUILTY,
BRITISH MINISTER'S TRIBUTE,
(Reuter's Service.)
* MEXICO CITY, August 17. The trial of the five men accused of the murder of Mrs. Evans at Texmelucan Puebla, on August 4, has been concluded. Three men were convicted of the crime, which is punishable by death. The other two were acquitted.
ACCOUNT OF ATROCITY.
TO FIGHT KU KLUX KLAN.
WOMAN CANDIDATE IN TEXAS.
OPPOSING JUDGE ROBERTSON.
HAS FIGHTING CHANCE"
(Reuter's American Service.)
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DALLAS, TEXAS, August 17.
With Kukluxism as the hain issue, Mrs. Mürlet Ferguson has become a candidate for nomination to the Governorship of Texas. Many are rallying to her suppert because her principal opponent, Judge Robertson of the Dallas District Court, has not repudiated allegations of sympathy, with the Ku Klux Klan.
Mr. Ferguson is believed to have Aghting. A message from Mexico City, dated August 4 chance; if she is successful she will be the first
woman State Governor in America.
read:
Mrs Evans, whose name was mention- ed in the dispute between the British and Mexican Göy- ernments over Mr. Cummins, has been shot dead, at Texmelucan Puebla, on the road leading to her hacien da.
The murderers are believed to be Agràrians, spurred on by anti-foreign agitators.
Mrs. Evans, was ́shot in the left side and fell from the wagon. Her hair caught in the wheels and the body was dragged some dis- tance, the face being badly mutilated.
Mr. Strauss, Ger- HACUNARD CUMMINS
man manager of the
estate, was seriously injured.. The destilants escaped with the payroll, two thousand dollars.
TRIBUTE TO DEAD WOMAN.
́Mr. H. A, C, Cummins, who was withdrawn by- the British Government from his post. as, British diplomatic agent in Mexico City, arrived in London from America on July 1,
LONDON CONFERENCE.
FRENCH PRESS OPINION.
EVACUATION STARTING TO-DAY,
(Reuter's Service.)
PARIS, August 16.-
Commenting on the signing of the 'Protocol at the London Conference, the newspapers here generally take up the attitude that French opinion is prepared to wait and watch results.
It is romarked that M. Herriot, the French Premier has logically applied his ideas and marked turning point in French policy. It remains to be sceh-whether others will advance in the same direction.
EVACUATION BEGINS.
It is officially announced that the French ill evacuate the towns of Offenburg and Appenweler on Monday.
WORLD FLIGHTS.
LOCATELLI JOINS AMERICANS.
"TAKING NO UNDUE RISKS.
(Reuter's-Service.).
REYKA VIK, August 17..., Signor Locatelli, the Italian Bier, has arrived
difficulties in Greenland, he will return to Italy by He says that, if he experiences insurmountable
The present flight. he adds, is the same route. preparatory to an Italian attempt to fly to the North Pole, which is to be made next year,
His withdrawal followed his virtual imprison-here from Hornafjord. He hopes to proceed in ment in the British Legation, and was the sequel to
company with the American fliers, possibly on Monday. protests he had made to the Mexican Government against efforts that were being made by the emissaries of that Government to dispossess Mrs. Evans, a British subject, and a widow, of her fara. The Mexican Government complained that Mr. Cummins addressed "Insulting letters to then. Mr. MacDonald, in a statement in the House of Commons, said that the Mexican Government's actions were "irregular and illegal," and its behaviour "inexcusable." He had read the fetters, and found nothing objectionable in them.
Mr. Cummins told a"Daily Mall” reporter that he 's besieged for some days in the Legation, not. he received instructions from Mc MacDonald to leave the country and hand over the charge of British interests to the United States Embassy.
"The Mexicans said I was to go by June to, said Mr. Cummins," but I was determined to stay until told to go by the British Govemment. I bad chains and padlocks fastened to the gates of the Legation, and kept strictly within the premises. The building was surrounded by secret agents, and had I gone outside I should have been arrested and forcibly expelled from the country. Had the Mexicans attempted to enter the Legation they would have had to force their way not only through very stout wooden doors but also through thick
shutters of steel.
"Thebesiegers permitted food and drink to be passed into the Legation, but all letters were withheld. I, however, received them by an Nol official ronte.”
and a peasantry established. Mr. Cummins con- tinued:
Mrs. Evans is one of the most wonderful women I have ever heard of.” Her courage and extraordinary tenacity in protecting what belongs to her have astonished her friends and foes alike. She is one of those women who appear only once in a hundred years.
White-haired and about 50, she is remarkably strong, a wonderful horse-woman, and crack shot with the rifle. Although when on her farm she wears riding breeches, when she visits Mexico City she is dressed in the height of fashion
FARMHOUSE FORTRESS.
Unlike most of the people who have had their farms raided, Mrs. Evans from the first put up a determined resistance, thereby startling the raiders
Agrarians-very considerably,
anything else, with courtyards. From the top of its Her farmhouse is more like a fortress than "battlements" Mrs. Evans has defied everybody who has come to the assault. There she has stood, with her rifle to her shoulder, fighting off the attackers with all the courage of a very brave man.
The whole trouble in Mexico, Mr.. Cummins
The last I heard of her before leaving Mexico said, was based on a new Agrarian law was that she was still at her post on the roof of her under which certain individuals determined house. There is no doubt that the Indians who to take agricultural property from
bave been incited by the Mexicans to attack her are the owners of the theory that it should be subdivided extremely afraid of he
VISCOUNT CURZON.
LOSES MOTOR APPEAL..
Sir Henry, that the measured dis- accelerated his speed in order to Lance over which they were tim-avoid the cyclists, as many a ing, was an absolutely straight motorist would do, but he happen- piere of road, and that a drivered to be in what he (Sir Henry) could easily see the side turnings had hoped had been done away because of the broad pavement. with one of those old measured London, July 8.Viscount Since 1908 there had been only one distances, he was going to say Curzon, M.P., appeared at Middle-summons against Viscount Curzon "traps." No one suggested that sex Quarter Sessions yesterday in for driving to the danger of the there was any danger from what
he did. respect of his appeal against u fine public.
}of £20 and six months' suspension
For the
Viscount Curzon, in the witness- After the justices had consulted of his motor-driving licence for box, said he had four wheel-brakes in private the chairman, Sir Mon- having exceeded the speed limit in on his car, so that it was under tagu Sharpe, said that undoubt Chiswick High-street on March 9, full control, and easy to pull up. edly Viscount Curzon was a very Mr. St. John Hutchinson, who He had been driving at a speed of accomplished moterist. He thought appeared for the respondent Jus. between twenty and twenty-five that.. the acceleration which the tices of Acton, said he understood miles an hour just previous to Viscount made in the measured the appeal, in support of which Sir entering the measured distance. distance might have been ended Henry Curtis Bennett appeared, There was also in that "control" a sooner than it was. was brought really against the long string of cyclists riding two Viscount's sake, he was sorry to suspension of the licence. Three abreast, and he accelerated his say that that Court, in the circum- months of that suspension had own speed in order merely to pass stances, did not see its way to already gone. The brief facts them, and thus avoid any danger interfere with the Bench below, were that on March 9 the police to them. There was no other and the appeal would be dismissed. Sir Henry Curtis Bennett were timing motor-cars over a 220 traffic in the "control" at the time. yards, stretch of Chiswick High Sir Henry Curtis Bennett: Do appealed to the justices to alter street, and found the Viscount's you use your car considerably on their decision in so far as to say. speed to be at the rate of thirty-public duties have to use it that the suspension of the licence. two miles 1,071 yards per hour. the whole time. 7 have my duties which had already taken place There were twenty-one previous in the House of Commons, and I should be sufficient. convictions against the defendant, am also a naval officer, and I have The Chairman said that that and of these fourteen were for to use my car in connection with was one of the points which the exceeding the speed limit.
both duties
Bench had very carefully con Police officers who gave evidence Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, sidered, but they had not seen in support of the conviction ad- addressing the Bench, said that their way to make an alteration' to
iril that extent. mitted, in cross-examination by Viscount Curzon
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