Pursue American's Slayers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 3, 1912:
Rebels Who Killed H. L. Russell to be Punished by Mexico.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.— The State Department was advised to-day in a dispatch from Henry L. Wilson, American Ambassador to Mexico, that the Mexican Government has given him assurances that every possible effort will be made to capture and punish the band of rebels that killed Hubert L. Russell on the San Juan De Michis hacienda, in the southeastern part of the State of Durango, near the Zacatecas line. The killing occurred last Sunday. Mr. Russell was the manager of the ranch, which is the property of Allen C. McCaughen, the United States Consul at Durango.
    The rebels were commanded by Luis Caso. The Government troops are in pursuit, and the Government officials expressed confidence in their being able to overtake and exterminate them. Mr. McCaughen is a clergyman. Both he and Mr, Russell are from Iowa.
    War department officials are inclined to sustain the contention of the local authorities at Douglass, Ariz., that Lieut. Roy W. Holderness and John H. Howard of the Ninth Cavalry, who were arrested there for entering a hotel in an effort to find a Mexican insurrecto, had no legal power in time of peace to search a private house in enforcing the neutrality laws. Manuel Cuestu, Mexican Consul at Douglas, and Powell Roberts, Chief of the Mexican Secret Service there, were also arrested. In addition to being charged with forcible entry, the four men are accused of assaulting the hotel proprietor.
    The affair was aggravated by the fact that enlisted men with the officers were colored troopers. The hotel people objected to having their promises searched by negro soldiers. The insurrecto was not found. The hotel proprietor wants Holderness and Howard prosecuted civilly and then court-martialled.
    The War Department received a telegram this afternoon from Harry F. Wheeler, Sheriff of Cochise County, of which Douglas is the county seat, saying that the entire community sympathizes with the army officers.
    The Mexican Government is apparently making no secret of the fact that it is now negotiating with Zapata for peace, according to reports to the State Department. The strong representations made to the Mexican Government by Ambassador Calero at the instance of President Taft is said to be having a powerful effect upon the Madero Government. It is believed that if pending peace negotiations are not speedily successful the Government will renew the war upon the rebels on a scale far more formidable and extensive than hitherto.