FIENDISH MEXICAN REBELS.
TORTURE AMERICAN'CITIZENS,
SAVED BY BRITISH FLAG,
Los Angeles, September 24.
5 Arthur Wiggins, an American mining ' prospector, has told an extraordinary j tale of cruelties perpetrated by MexiI can rebels.
A force of rebels visited a general store belonging to Wiggins, in Mexican territory. He treated them well, and gave theni food and drink, and they returned his kindness by firing revolvers at his store.
No one in the store was hurt, and \Viggins told his men to act as if nothing had happened, but one of the men became excited and threw a stick of dynamite among the rebels, killing nineteen. The.other rebels then seized Wiggins, charged him with having thrown the dynamite, and decided to shoot' him. 1 The unlucky storekeeper had his hands tied to a rope, and was then hoisted up over the limb of a tree, where he was left hanging for half an hour.
When the rebels returned with the object of riddling his body •with bullets, Wiggins' wife threw the Union Jack over him, and dared them to fire. The rebels were over-awed by her determined attitude, and allowed ;Wjggins ,to escape into United States territory.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 116, 2 October 1912, Page 6
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196FIENDISH MEXICAN REBELS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 116, 2 October 1912, Page 6
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