Torture and Murder

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 5

Torture and Murder

HORRORS Of Til 10 MEXICAN' WAR. SPECIFIC CHARGES OF MULDER AND OUTBACK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, March ;). Special telegrams state that Benton was unarmed, and was shot in the back by General Villa and his aide-de-can.p when leaving the room. The rebels' ferocious excesses ore changing the feding in the north oi' .Mexico. EVIDENCES 01' INHUMANITY. New Vrok, March 0. Examination of Vcrgara's body shows 1 tliat a Wow with a rifle-butt crushed his skull. There were gunshot wound.* in the head and neck. A mutilated and burned hand indicated that he had bwn tortured before death. Men, believed to be Texas Rangers, restored the I>dly ti the grave again. The commandant of the Hangers denies that Ilia men participated. AMERICAN POLICY ATTACKED. ' Washington, March 0. 'Specific charges that a hundred Ame licans have been murdered and outraged during the Mexican revolution have been laid before the Senate by Senator Falls, who urged the abandonment of the present policy as hopelessly inefficient. AN INVESTIGATION ORDERED. A PLEA FOR INTERVENTION. Received 10, p.m Washington, March 10. Mr. 111-vail has ordered an investigation of the Texas Runners entering Mexico, pointing out that it v.'as an aet of war. The flow: :yir <!ni:es that the Hanger* participated in the matter, which is wrapped in mystery. Senator Falls, in the Senate, pleaded that intervention in Mexico was necessary lo prevent inevitable war. Other countries were n<jt likely to be so complaisant as Britain had been in Benton's case. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee declared iliat those responsible for tho foreign policy were doing everything possible to secure a solution without involving war.