Our Demand Has Set Dixon Free.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1913:
Mexican Soldiers Who Shot American Official at Juarez Have Been Jailed.
WILSON WROTE MESSAGES
Bryan Modified Ambassador's Language, Then "O. K.'d" Them — Consul Did Rest.
MEDIATION TALK STRONG
President Still Leans That Way — Confers with the Ambassador To-day.
Special to The New York Times.
    EL PASO, Texas, July 27.— Following the demand of the Washington Government through its Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico City, and through United States Consul Thomas D. Edwards in Juarez, the Mexican Administration released to-day Charles B. Dixon, the American Immigration Inspector, who was shot in the back by Mexican Federal soldiers last Saturday afternoon.
    The Mexican officials also informed Consul Edwards that, in compliance with the demand of the United States, Arthur Walker, the negro whom Inspector Dixon had sought in Juarez in a "white slave" case before the shooting, had been placed in a cell. They also said that the soldiers who tried to kill Mr. Dixon had been put in jail.
    Inspector Dixon was brought to this side of the border by the Consul and was placed under the care of competent surgeons, who said he probably would recover.
    Consul Edwards accomplished the release of Mr. Dixon and the reported arrest of Walker and the soldiers only after much difficulty. In the end he had to adopt strong language to the authorities on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande to make them understand the earnestness with which the American Government insisted on reparation in the case of the attempt on the immigration officer's life. He said at last to the Mexican authorities in Juarez:

Strong Warning to Mexicans.
    "I do not merely request the arrest of these men, but in the name of the United States Government, which I have the honor to represent. I demand their immediate arrest and their trial and punishment for this crime. My Government will hold the military authorities of Juarez personally responsible for failure to obey this command."
    The Inspector, on his arrival here, told of inhuman treatment he had suffered at the hands of the Mexican authorities. After he was wounded, he said, in his attempt to escape from the Federal soldiers — who, he believed, were going to put him to death because they were taking him toward the outskirts of the city — he was removed from the hospital. There he was placed under a guard or three soldiers. Nurses who wished to dress his wounds were forbidden to remove his blood-soaked clothing. It was not until the arrival of Dr. Tappan of the United States Immigration Office that the Mexicans permitted Mr. Dixon's clothing to be cut sufficiently for the surgeon to treat the wound.
    Mr. Dixon was held as a prisoner in the hospital from Saturday afternoon until the late hour to-day when he was brought to this city. Great indignation was expressed by Americans here when the details of the Inspector's experience became known. Their relations with their Mexican neighbors became critical. Interest was expressed in a report that Villa's Constitutionalists soon would attack Juarez for the double purpose of strengthening their chance of recognition by Washington and of avenging the attempt on the life of Inspector Dixon.

Made Demand on Gen. Castro.
    Mr. Edwards found it necessary to visit Gen. Francisco Castro and Col. Juan N. Vasquez of Provisional President Huerta's forces in Juarez to achieve the release of the Immigration Inspector and the arrest of the persons concerned in the murderous assault. He put plumply to them a demand in the name of the President of the United States that Mr. Dixon De set free from the typhus hospital in Juarez, where the victim had been a prisoner after the shooting.
    The Consul made it plain to the Mexican Army officers that he was weary of arguing with the lesser military authorities, and with the civil officials of the town. He had been informed by the municipal officers and the subordinate military commanders that Inspector Dixon was held in Mexico on "the grave charge of attempting to kidnap" the negro Walker. Following the earlier demands by Mr. Edwards, the civil authorities had insisted on detaining the Inspector, the military men had said the case was out of their jurisdiction, and the representatives of the Mexican Federal Government had declined to interfere in behalf of the American captive.
    Consul Edwards finally made his demand to Gen. Castro and Col. Vasquez so imperative that the General sent the Colonel to the hospital to order Mr. Dixon's release, and the paper containing the signatures of his bondsmen was torn up. The Inspector was brought to the El Paso side in an ambulance, and the arrests of Walker and several women accomplices were reported as having followed.
    A formal apology is to be made to the State Department. Mr. Dixon was much improved to-day and his recovery was predicted by the attending doctors. The bullet, which passed through his body, failed to pierce the intestines.

Negro Blamed for Trouble.
    E. W. Berkshire, Supervising Inspector of Immigration for the United States, said to-night he made no demand on the Mexican officials, but reported the facts to his superiors concerning the arrest of himself and Inspector Clarence Gatley when they went to Juarez on Saturday, following the shooting of Mr. Dixon.
    Mr. Berkshire said that from what he had been able to ascertain the negro, Walker, when he learned that Inspector Dixon was in Juarez investigating a "white slave" case in which Walker had been implicated, informed the Mexican officials that Dixon was there with a bottle of chloroform ready to chloroform and kidnap him. It was said the negro then bought drinks for the soldiers who were to make the arrest.
    Mexican Consul Miranda and Guillermo Porras, ex-Secretary of State of Chihuahua, interceded for the release of Mr. Dixon, after conferences with United States officials, who represented to the Mexicans the grave impression that — had been produced in Washington by the news of the shooting of the Inspector.
    A Federal troop train bearing the Red Cross flag came back to Juarez early this morning with thirty wounded Federals who were shot during an engagement at Rancheria, on the Mexican Central below Juarez. The Federals were manning a troop train, guarding a train of Americans, when the rebels of Ortega's command opened fire from a wood near the track. The Federals answered the fire, the fight lasting more than two hours. Five rebels were seen to fall, and several others were wounded. Five Federals were killed.