SHOT IN THE BACK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2004, 11 March 1914, Page 7

SHOT IN THE BACK.

HOW MR. BENtON Mt

VILLA'S TREACHERY.

GROWING IMPATIENCE AT WASHINGTON.

By IMegr-t&Sb—Pr«sjl Associdtlah—tlAsyrieht 1 Uwdon, March 9. | Special telegrams state that Mi\ Dei):-, ten was unarmed, oinl ivas shot ..in tho i back by Genoi-aJ Villa and thfc Is-litei-'s avsJo-de-caiiip whoa lip fras leaving • Villa's room, The rebels' ferocious excesses aro' ciinngiMg the feeling ia North Mexico, TORTUJEtED BEPOBB DEATH. LSredO, March 9. The e-samOTatiou of Vcrgera's body (reported .ye.stef.iiay to have b<3oll re? eov-erced from Jliexieaii- territory 'by a. party of Texas Rangers and eonv.ejtod to Ahieriea-ti soil) -shoivs that a Wow front a rifto-tort* c-fushefl : the skull there wore gunshot wsmids m the liead and iieekj aod » mutilated and burned liawd indicated ihfi win Was tortured before death.

It is believftd the Tesa-3 Hangers stored the body to the gjrare again, : but the comniaud.int o£ tljo Eangers denies that his men ptirtfeipated hi tho disiu* ternient. SPECiFIO CHAEGES iAJtD.. Washington, Skrch S. Specific eharges o.f a Iviindred Amcrieaas heinK kilfed., iHUrdercrt, and oiitv raged during tljo Hexiean revoHita'on [ have ton. laid Ijefffirft tlrts Sona.te. by I Seiiator Falls-, who »god iho abandottJ TOoni el tiro pres-sut policy as hopGlesslj , ineffective,

"A$ ACT OF WAR." . ■ (Rk, March ID, 10;2:3 p.m.) Washington, 3itee.li 9. , Sir. W. J. Bryan (Secretary of State) lias ordered an investigation coiic.cr.iyin£ the action of tire 'Tosris Rangers lir'eritorittg M-osico, pointing *>M; that th.6. incident anraunted ta "ah set of tfiir.' 1 ' The Governor of Texas deities tljat tho Bangers participated in the afiatr. Tho matter is wrngjped in iHystci-y/ Senator Fails., sjieaking en the Senate, pteadod that ttas. inte.rvontkin. of tli.r> pnitod States in JlexieA was necessity k ofde.r to prevent fncvJtaMo wat. Other QpuntricS) ho saW., ifet<s -nsft Ry:* ly M fee so eoiiiplaisant as Great Britain liad bceu Sβ ilic casts : of Jfr, B.aVtoii. Hie Cliainnaii of ilio Finteigh. ■ Relations Gpnvnrftteo eftfebrfed.'th.iit thpsft xd* Spfliistble for the foreign pfilicy of W* Atlministratio.n ttero dotog *i;.<sryMiiHg ■fiossiMo to -swsjro a solfltioit of tlio problem in Mexico without involving the country hi \v&t.