Friday, October 26, 2012

Mexico Expels Americans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 26, 1912:
Newspaper Man Complains of Unlawful Arrest by a Ruse.
    LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 25.— Harry A. Dunn, an American newspaper man, and F. S. Carasristi, a native of Virginia, said to be an agent of Felix Diaz, arrived here to-day under charge of four Mexican secret service men, having been expelled from Mexico by the operation of "Article XXXIII." affecting so-called "pernicious foreigners."
    Both men said they were arrested in Mexico City without warrants. Dunn asserted that he was taken from home on the pretext that the Inspector General of Police wished to impart information to him. He declared that he was placed in jail without the knowledge of his family, that permission to see his wife was denied him; that she came to the jail and asked for him and was told he was not there; that he heard her voice and shouted, and that on hearing him she reported his arrest to the American Embassy.
    Despite representations of the Embassy, he charged, it was denied at first that he had been apprehended. Although his wife sent food, he said, that only a small part of it reached him, and he was compelled to bribe the guards for drinking water at $1 per cup. Carasristi is a citizen of New Mexico.

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