New Neutrality Ruling.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 6, 1913:
Supreme Court Puts Further Ban on Mexican Smuggling.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, May 5.— The Supreme Court to-day reversed the ruling of Judge T. S. Maxey of the Federal Court at El Paso, Texas, to quash the prosecution of Chavez and Mesa, two men indicted for violation of the neutrality laws in connection with the Mexican revolutionary troubles. Chavez and Mesa were charged with having sent ammunition from one point to another point in El Paso with the intention or shipping it into Mexico. Judge Maxey held that the neutrality laws had not been violated because the goods had not left the United States.
    The Government contended that any wilful act of transportation or shipping contraband articles from any point in the United States with Mexico as their destination was criminal.