Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1933
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PRICE TEN ( ENTS
BORAH GIVES ANSWER TO SMITH DEFENDING ROOSEVELT POLICIES
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License Fee Of $400 For Wilkes-Barre And Hotel Rules Limiting Members
BOOTLEG EXPECTED
Politics Enters as Employees For State Sores Are Con¬ sidered — A Ccstly Start
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Sworn In Only
To Lose Office
Mauch Chunk, Pa., Nov 25— UP—Recount of the votes In Kidder To\vn.shlp, Carbon coun¬ ty, today gave LeRoy WLsier, lU'publican, the position of scliool director by a margin of two votes over Daniel Brady, Democrat, who had already been sworn into offlce.
REVENUE MAY BE LOW
Provi.sions ot the liquor control hill that is expected to be enacted into law at HiirrlshurK the coming week bave been the subject ot serl¬ oua consideration on the part ot the va.iuiis elementa in Uie local popu¬ lation Intere.itea It) the measure. 3t Kc!(ler.s of beverago ircenses and e'V*«Pectiv* applicants tor ilcensea tliat will give tliem the privilege ot lelllns utnes and liquors on the spot have been busy the past tew days icquainting themselves with the requirements that must be met by those wishing to run restaurants or hotelK. Locnl governmental bodies, hard pressed for revenue to keep municipal machinery In motion the past few years, also are deeply in¬ terested, being anxious to know Just how tholr treasuries will benefit un- flcr the terms of the bill.
The consensus of opinion Is that jovernmentui bodies that expected to have a veritable Pandora's box opened to tliem In tho way of extra revenue are due to disappointment, the Keneral belief being that munic¬ ipalities wiil not tare nearly as well as they did under the Itrooks law In effect when the Kiglitecntli Amend¬ ment was adopted. There's a feel¬ ing that there wiil be a disposition on the part ot beverage licensees to do a clandestine business In wines and liquors, Just as Is now tfie case In a good percentage ot the licensed houses.
9400 tiecnta Hara Cost of licenses under the new measure are fixed by population. In Scranton they wili be jfiuo and tn VVilkea-Uarre $400. In cities of less population than Wilkes-Harre the coat will be smaller and still imaller in boroughs and townships. Until certain amendments are dis¬ posed ot, the exact cost will not be known outside ot first, second and a half dozen   third  class cities.
At a cost of $400 per license In Wlikes-Hurre the city treasury would materially benefit. If the •ame number ot licenses are grant- ad that were In effect betore, pro¬ hibition tho city treasury would receive approximately $50,000. Few »re of the belief, however, that more than fifty percent ot the num¬ ber ot licenses In effect before pro¬ hibition will be taken out by res¬ taurant nnd  hotel  proprietors.
The    beer    license    complication *lll   havo   a   very   deterring   effect fc'^°"K    this   line.    Thla   license   Is Ujtoucli  cheaper  and   It  la  no  secret (Continued  on  page   10,  Section   1)
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MAY BE PUT ON DRIi INDUSM
Would Put Federal Alcohol Administration In Com¬ plete   Control   At   Once
AID TO CONGRESS
Wynekoop And Mother A re Held For Murder
Attempt To Save One Another With Con¬ flicting Confessions—Husband's Story Disproved By Friends—The Mystery Deepens
Chicago,      Nov.      25.—UP—Earle know    she's    Innocent.    I   wouldn't
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Washington, Nov. 25—UP—Liquor code makers labored tonight on a document which would satisfy President Roosevelt, the distillers and tlie citizens who wlil liegin drinking legal whiskey In little more than a week.
The distillers fought bitterly, but appnrently In vain, against a code drawn up by the President's alcohol committee. It would put the whole liquor Industry under n federal alco¬ hol control administration, empow¬ ered to fix prices and control pro¬ duction.
Seek Compromite
After two days of hearings the distillers appointed a committee ot eight, headed by Owsley Brown ot Louisville, Ky. The committeemen conferred with the President's com¬ mittee, headed by Herman Oliphant. Tiiey hoped thut they could achieve a compromise code, wiilch would be sent immediately to President Roosevelt for his approval, so that tht liquor business may be placed under governmental control upon December 5,
Brown's committee still hoped that tliero miglit lie relaxation ot the government proposals to limit production to the present capacity of distilleries and to control ali liquor prices. The government committeemen Indicated that any such   relaxation   would   be  slight.
President Roosevelt was under¬ stood to have been in close touch with the conference by telephone trom Warm Springs. lie feels thai the liquor business must put its best foot forward, that all pos.sl- bility ot racketeering within tlie Industry must be eliminated and that tlie bootlegger must be van¬ quished. It legal liquor sale Is to be   made   successful.
May  Ufa   Blue   Eagle
The administration believes thnt the only way to control tho liquor trade before Congress meets in Januai-y Is to place it under an Iron-clad Blue Kagle code. Con¬ gress then would have the oppor¬ tunity ot making permanent liquor laws, without being pressed to speed  Its decisions.
Impending adoption of a general liquor code left aeveral groups within the Industry disgruntled. The wholesalers of hard drink talked of "being frozen out." Tliey wanted   a   separate   code.
So did the rectlflers, whose plan Is to "cut" straight whiskey witli alcoiiol, water and flavoring to make ten bottles of liquor where one stood betore.
Wynekoop and his mother. Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, were held to¬ night on charges ot murder In con¬ nection with the death ot Earle's wife, Rheta, victim ot a killing so mysterious that police believe they merely scratched the surface ot Its many   conflicting  angles.
The formal charges against Earle were filed atter he had denounced as a "jiack ot lies" the confession In which his mother said she fired a shot into the body ot Rheta after the girl appeared to be dead of chloforni.
Takes Blame  Himself
Decision ot medical experts that the girl probalily was still breath¬ ing when she was shot—a conflict with Dr. Wynekoop's confession— and the strenuous efforts ot the mother and son to take blame trom each other confused the background ot the case. Some otficiais feared they might never untangle all ot the ramifications  ot  the  case.
Karle Wynekoop. fighting desper¬ ately to clear his mother of sus¬ picion, tried to confess to the crime tonight but his story was so incon¬ sistent that police refused to accept It.
It was after this, however, that he ivas booked on murder charges pending further investigation.
The young man was escorted to the gloomy old house on Monroe street where his wife died am? re- enacted his version ot tho death scene.
Officers were openly skeptical. He was returned to the Filmore street police station where the formal charge was placed against him.
A few hours after his dramatic but largely unbelievable "confes¬ sion." Wynekoop was overheard admitting freely that the story he told was false and that his only reason for creating the narrative was in the hope It would free his mother.
"1 tried to fool those police ofll¬ cers." the young man said. "My mother  knows   I'm   Innocent  nnd   1
put myself on the spot by killing my wife even It I didn't love her. I thought that when I re-enacted the crime they would believe my story but I guess they're too In¬ telligent."
Assistant State's Attorney Charles Dougherty said he decided to flle the formal murder charge because he believed Wynekoop had knowl¬ edge ot the slaying. He said Wyne¬ koop purchased cartridges for a re¬ volver and instructed his mother In use ot the weapon betore leav¬ ing on a trip  West.
"That doesn't mean anything.' Wynekoop said. "Police have known from the .start that I bought shells tor the gun and told my mother how to use It because I was afraid to leave her alone In the house without  protection."
Police  Skeptical
Refusal of police to accept tho story told by Wynekoop reflected their similar skepticism that Dr. Wynekoop had told the full truth In   her  "confession"   statement.
In their reconstruction ot the case, polioe had the report ot the coroner's physicians which gave the cause ot death as "shock and a gunshot wound." The mother's story attributed the death to an overdose ot chloroform. The story toW by the son today was so vague that police said it meant little In clarifying   the  case.
Earle prefaced hla statement with the sobbing promise that he would "tell anything to save my mother from the electric chair.' Police were of tiie opinion that a similar feeling on the part ot the mother—a desire to remove sus¬ picion from her son—may liave been the impelling factor In her story.
Earle   Tells   Of   "Crime" Young WyntUoop said he was In Chicago    the    day    his    wiCe    met death.
"I was alone In the house with (Continued on page 15,  Section  1)
Edward Warner Dying—Hit- And-Run Victim Or Hurled From Passing Motor Car
POLICE PUZZLED
Little Girl Unhurt Though Run Over By City Truck— Hazleton   Boy   Is   Killed
PLYMOUTH MAN HURT
IVIGGIN TO FACE
IN REPLY TO FOX
Pecora Ignores Denial Of Story Hoover Was Told To 'Mind Own Business'
TAMPERING CHARGED
Activity In Anthracite Region Now Pinned On Waxey Gordon
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t,New York, Nov. 25.—UP—The "Wain of evidence by which the tovernment seeks to link Pudgy W^axey Gordon with large bank deposits Inconsistent with his In- eome tax payments was strength- •ned today when -Mrs. Virginia E. Brown told about her beer dealings in  1930.
Mrs. Brown, a vivid figure In a wight red dress and black coat and w. testified In Federal court that •He  bought  a   lot   ot   beer—some¬
times
as much aa eighty halt-bar-
«*Ib, she said
Her testimony, coupled with that Of Seely McClure, Middletown bank eierlt,, served to trace two checks from her account to the account of ** J. Sampson in the Second Bank • Truat Co., Hoboken, x\. J.   Samp¬
son, the government charges, is the name under which Sam Gurock, a Gordon lieutenant, made bank de¬ posits.
Still other testimony at Gordon's Federal court trial on charges of evading some $500,000 in inclme tax payments sought to link deposits In another account In the Hoboken hank to Oordon beer.
It was brought out that Michael Dearcot, who sold $20,000 worth ot beer In I'ennsylvanla mining dist¬ rict, made payments to Murray Luxenberg, previously Indentlfieit as a  Gordon   aide.
These payments were traced to tho account ot James Henderson, who, the governmeftt claims, is an¬ other lieutenant ot the squat, stocky beer baror\ who rose from pick¬ pocket to millionaire.
Washington, Nov. 25.—UP—Albert H. Wiggln. deposed head ot the Chase iNational Bank, will appear next week before Senate stock market investigators to answer the charge ot William Fox that he brusquely ordered President Hoover to keep hands oft New York bankers In 1929.
Wiggln already has Issued em¬ phatic denial ot Fox's story. But Ferdinand I'ecora, committee coun¬ sel, refused to take cognizance of the banker's statement. Pecora said Wiggln would appear before the committee next week and could make his reply at that time. Hoover Not Invited Half a dozen prominent Repub¬ licans ot the Hoover and Harding administrations have been drawn Into Fox's story ot what he des¬ cribed as a conspiracy to ruin him in 1929 and 1930. The committe re¬ jected Pecora's suggestion that Hoover and the others be invited to appear It they desired to answer the former fllm magnate. Senators decide, instead, to receive In writ¬ ing ail requests tor an opportunity to testify but without pledging be¬ forehand that the applicant would be  heard.
There 1» aome aentlment that the committee members for an exten¬ sion of the inquiry to Justice De¬ partment officials ot the Hoover Administration. I''ox swore that he had been told In 1929 that dt-iiart- (Contlnued on page  10, Section  1)
GIVEN INCREASE
Former Policeman's Pay As Miner Is Added VVhen Benefits   Are   Computed
KILLED ON DUTY
A compensation claim, based on concurrent employment, was de¬ ckled yesterday In favor of the widow ot a former Plains Township policeman. Tlie award amounts to $7,600. Announcement of the decis¬ ion was made yesterday at Harris¬ burg by the Bureau ot Workmen's Compensation. The case was tried betore Referee Asa E. Lewla of this city.
The former police officer, Anthony Gustave. returning from the Hill¬ side section of I'lalns Town.ship on the night ot March 16, where he had been in response to a call, lost control ot the motorcycle he was operating. It cra.-.hed Into a pole, his skull was fractured and he died several days later.
Two Salarlet Combined
A compensation claim was filed by the widow, Mrs. Victoria Gustave against the Employes Assurance Corporation, insurance carrier for Plains Township. The corporation Insisted tho claim bo iiased on the officer's monthly salary of $60 a month, which would allow the widow about $6.35 per week.
The woman's attorney, E. C. Marlanelll, objected to contentions ot the corporation, and insisted Gustave's monthly wagen, received as an employee ot Henry colliery, Lehigh Valley Coal Cumpany, be used In conjunction with the salary paid by the town.shiii us a basis (Continued on page 16, tiection 1) '
An Ashley young man Is In a dying condition in Mercy hospital from Injuries believed to have been received when he was either hurled trom a motor car or else run down by a   hit-and-run   operator. The
victim Is Edward Wnrner, twenty- five years old, of 40 Fall street, Ashley.
Warner was found In the middle of South Main street, A^shley, near the Maxwell colliery of the Glen Alden Coal Company, last night at 11 oclock by two Ashley men, Henry Hydocker of 5 Rutz street, and Jolin Lainock, 2 Coai street. They took the injured man to Mercy hospital. He was uncon¬ scious when discovered and remain¬ ed In that condition early tod.ay. Doctors held slight hope for liis recovery.
The case was Ini'estigated by Patrolman Joseph Gorham of the Ashley police department. The offlcer was unable to state just how the man was Injured.
Upon examination at the hospital It was found that he has a possible fracture ot the skull, a bruise over the right eye and his face was swol¬ len. It Is believed he Is Internally Injured as well.
Run Over By Truck June Decker, S, of 41 Essex lane, narrowly escaped death or serious injury shortly betore 4 oclock yes¬ terday afternoon when a delivery truck operated by Anthony Nardone, 22, ot 262 South Washington street, ran over her.
Nardone told Motorcycle Patrol¬ man Thomas Cavanaugh that he was backing up his truck near the girl's home and did not know he had struck her until a pedestrian shout¬ ed to him that the child was under the wheels. He rushed her to the Wyoming Valley Homeopathic hos¬ pital where examination revealed the child was uninjured. Nardone was released to appear when want¬ ed.
Hazleton Boy Killed Squeezed between two motor ve¬ hicles last night at seven oclock, Arthur Strolh, seven years old, of Pine street, Hazleton, received In¬ juries that resulted In death about two hours later at Hazleton State hospital.
William Rowe. seventy-seven, ot 70 Vine street, Plymouth, Is In a serious condition In Nantlcoke hos¬ pital, where he was taken atter be¬ ing run down on Main street, Ply¬ mouth, by a machine operated by Joseph Baranowski, 104 Turner street, Plymouth. Rowe suffered a fracture of tho right leg. several broken ribs and a possible fracture of the skull. Baranowski was given a preliminary liearing before Bur¬ gess Charles Honeywell. The de¬ fendant posted $500 ball to await the outcome ot the injuries ot the aged victim. The accident was in¬ vestigated by Patrolman Joseph Mallo.
While cutting timber yesterday, Emerson Rosencrance, 68, ot Ran¬ som Township, received a compound fracture of the left leg when a tree fell on the member. He Is In Tay¬ lor hospital.
Andrew Caslln, fourteen, of High street, Ashley, suffered left shoulder injuries while playing football yes¬ terday.
Gerald Shea, 18, of 39 Harklns lane, entered Mercy hospital yester¬ day tor treatment ot a fractured nose. He said he was struck by a piece ot iron but did not state how the accident occurred.
A broken wrist was received by (Continued un page IU, Section  1)
Brooke Hart Case Revived By Calls
San Jose, Cal., Nov. 25—UP— A new series ot telephone calls and notes tonight spurred ac¬ tivity in the Brooke Hart kid- naiilng caso as the Hart family was Informed hy unidentifled parties that tlie youth still Is alive and would be returned on payment   of   $40,000  ransom.
Reed Vetterli, Chief Depart¬ ment of Justice Agent in charge ot the investigation, said he had placed men at work on the re¬ vived ransom demands. He waa inclined, iiowever, to term the message a hoax In an attempt to collect money from Alex J. Hart,   rich   father  of  the  youth.
"I liave been in/ormed u letter has been received by the Hart family but I am inclined to doubt Ita authority." Vetterli said. "Two men, J. Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, lield as prisoners, have confes.sed In every detail that they kidnaped and killed Brooke Hart. The present incident appears to be an attempt to rrtulct the Hart family on the false hope their son  still lives."
CALLS ON CRITICS
OF PRESIDENT TO
SHOWBETTERPLAN
Idaho Senator Says Opponents Of Roose- velt Advocate Return To A Gold Dollar Which Had The Nation In A State Of Economic Collapse Eight Months Ago
CONFIDENCE IN LEADERSHIP
USE OF LOBBYING IN PUBLIC WORKS
Says Municipalities Wasting Money This Way Appar¬ ently Are Not  In  Need
TOO MANY REQUESTS
Vl'ashington, Nov. 25.—UP—Ap¬ plications by municipalities tor public works funds will be looked on with suKi)i"Ion it they retain lobbyists or politicians to further their projects. Public Works Ad¬ ministrator Harold L. Ickes said today.
He said the "easiest money" In the Capital was being collected by lawyers, lobbyists, agents and poli¬ ticians who are "swarming hotel lobbies." These men, he said claim they can get favorable considera¬ tion for tho project Inspite of warnings sent  out.
Lobby Monoy Waited "There is no reason why I should object to people spending their money In this fashion It they have no better use for It," Ickes said ".My only Interest Is In the implica¬ tion that there Is any short cut enjoyed by anyone to tho Public Works Fund. The money paid to such persons is money thrown away.
"The fact Is that It It Is known here that people ure being employed to advance projects, we are likely to look with suspicion on such projects.
"It Is a fair presumption that In¬ dividuals, corporations or munici¬ palities that can afford to pay out good money for the service of lawyers, agents lobbyists or poli¬ ticians for services the latter can not perform, are not In such need of help from the public works admin¬ istration as to entitle them to seri¬ ous consideration."
Tbo Many Application! The Implication that tills scramble for federal funds for non-tederal projects which produces the par¬ ticular type ot racketeering re¬ ferred to by Ickes nosslble waa made in another statement from his office. This statement reported that a survey of the applications for federal aid for these projects call for more than seven times the amount ot money available.
Only $450,000,000 of these funds are still availaiiie. Tlie amount called for in applications now be¬ fore the Administration total $3,160,353,717 according to the sur¬ vey. The figures apply only to non- tederal projects regarded as worthy of consideration. They number 4,661.
Washington, Nov. 25.—UP—Sen¬ ator William E. Borah. Repn., Idaho, today raised his powerful voice in challenge to Alfred E. Smith and other critics ot President Roose¬ velt's  money policies.
Borah said Smith and the others were proposing a return to the gold dollar wliich brought the nation on March 3, last, to "a state ot economic collapse." He predicted the people would refuse to follow those who advocate abandonment ot the President's currency policies.
The senator did not commit him¬ self to unqualified satisfaction with the money experiments now under way. But he called on Mr. Roose¬ velt's critics to offer something better If they must condemn wliat the Administration Is doing. Borah just returned from tho Mid-Western area ot agricultural unrest. Calls On   Critic*
"The thing that holds the people to the President," Borah said to¬ day to newspapermen, "Is the be¬ lief that he deeply desires to lift them out ot their desperate trou¬ bles."
Hits   Gold   Dollar
Borah said he could only con¬ clude that the public statements of Smltii, Professor O. M. W. Sprague and I'aul M. AVarburg were In behalf ot a return to the gold  dollar.
"The gold dollar," he told ques¬ tioners, "is the most dishonest dollar ever created witii the ex¬ ception ot absolutely irredeemable paper money. In my judgment, the farmer is just as mucii interested in  sound  money  as  Is  anybody."
While Borah was talking in his Senate office, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Dem., Montana, In a nation-wide radio address was de¬ nouncing tho.se he said who were attempting to alarm the country witii forecasts of dangerous and uncontrolled inflation. He said Sprague,      Warburg,      the      United
States Chamber ot Commerce, Wall Street and the Federal Reserve Board "now are showing their true colors."
Borah and Wheeler agreed a re¬ turn to the old gold dollar would be disastrous, the latter urging re- monetlzatlon   of   silver.
Neither Governor Smith, Mr. Sprague nor Mr. Warburg," said Borah, "In their attacks upon th« present monetary policy, offer any¬ thing except the mere restoration of the gold standard, the rsturn to gold. Will that suffice? It doea not seem to me that It will suffice.
"At any rate. In view ot the ex¬ periences which we had under the policies to which they would now have us return, I venture to believe the American people will not sup¬ port any such program. Criiics Flayed
"I doubt It the critics ot the Pre.ildent's monetary policy will succeed In winning public opinion nway from the President unless thoy are prepared to offer an af¬ firmative, constructive program. The thing that iiolds the people to the I'resldent is the belief that he deeply desires to lift them out ot their desperate troubles. The people will ask those who object to the President's monetary system: What have you to offer in lieu ot the president's  program?
"We had the gold standard for 3'<; yeara of tho deprcs.«ion. We .should have liad tlie confldence which It is said now waits on the return of tlie gold standard. But confidence was nut at hand, prices continued to tall, unemployment to Increase, until on the 3rd day of March this nation was in a state of economic collapse. The advocates of the gold standard stood about the hier of American industry and American agriculture -speechless— not a word of hope, not a note of Icader.shlp."
BULLITT ORDERED TO MOSCOW BY PRESIDENT
Warm Springs, tia.. .N'ov. 25.—UP —President Roosevelt tonight or¬ dered William C. Bullitt, newly- appointed ambas.sador to Soviet Kussla to proceed to Moscow on Novemiier 29 to present his cre¬ dentials and then return homo to report on the problem of organizing a permanent embassy, consulates and staffs.
This decision was reached at the Little White House after a confer¬ ence ot several hours between Mr. Roosevelt and Bullitt In which both men. among other things, turned to the task ot projecting an adminis¬ tration policy to meet the situation created by recognition ot the Soviet Union.
Medalie  Replaced
Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 25.—UP —President Roosevelt tonight nam¬ ed Martin Conboy. former Supreme Court Justice, as Federal District Attorney ot Greater New York.
At the same time the little White House announced Wliliam C Bullitt bad   signed   his  coninilsslon   as   ani-
bas.sador to the Soviet Union.
Conboy is an intimate friend of Mr. Roosevelt and served as hia special counsel in the sensational * trial at Albany a year and a half ago that resulted In James J. Walker resigning as .\ew York City's mayor. Conboy will replace George Z. .Medalie as District Attorney, in one of tlie most important Federal posta In the east.
^ For a time It was believed that Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the stock market in%-estigating commit¬ tee of the Senate, would obtain the post.
Creates Mediation Board Washington, Nov. 25. -UP—Pres¬ ident Roosevelt tonight announced creation ot a board of mediation to settle the labor dispute between the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Ita employees.
The board was the second set up by the President to solve railway labor troubles.
In establlMliing the board, the President said the Mobile and Ohio, which operates in Illinois, Ken¬ tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, liad been unable to solve its labor difflculties.
MRS. L. A. RICKARD,
PLYMOUTH, IS DEAD
Deatli at midnight claimed Mrs. Li?a Albertlna Rickard, 88, wife ot the late Dr. A. G. Rickard ot Ply¬ mouth, at her home, 378 West Main street. Plymouth, ot general debil¬ ity. Mrs. Rickard and her husband were pioneer residents of Plymouth borough. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. A. B. Dungan of Forty Fort, Mrs. H. W. Ruggles of Kingston and Miss May Rickard at home. Funeral announcement will be made later.
Five Cuban Officers Shot By Mob Accused Of Brutality In Old Regime
Matanzas, Cuba, Nov. 25.—UP— Five former Cuban army officers, accused ot brutality under the ad¬ ministration of Gerardo Machado. were seized by a mob today near Crflon and shot to deatli.
The ofticers, who had been Im¬ prisoned at Cabanas, were being taken to Santa tl'inra in automobiles, under a military escort commanded by Lieutenant Rodoifo Sanchez. Authorities had Intended to submit them to legal examinations, prepar¬ atory to trail for their alleged crimes.
The motorcade had reached a point, early today, on the central iilgliway outside of Colon, where a mob ot armed white men were found blocking further progress.
The five officers were taken away trom the escort nnd led a few rode down the road, where the mob, with pistols and rifles, ended their lives.
Whether there wns any resIstJance by the guards was not revealed. Army headquarters refused to divulge any further tnformattoa about the tate of tbe itii