MEXICAN BANDITS
OIL CAMP CAPTURED
EIGHTY-FIVE PRISONERS HELD FOR RANSOM.
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(Received .Time 30, 10 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, 29th June.
The ' American Consul at Tampico has informed the State Department that .Mexican bandits have captured the Pccero oil camp, and are holding eighty-s five prisoners, including eight Americans,' for ransom.
The. forty Americans previously seized have been released, but whether ransoms were paid is not known. The State Department is forwarding pressing demands on the Mexican Government to check the banditry and safeguard American residents.
The State Department is advised that Bruce Beilaski, former chief of the United States Secret Service, has been released by the Mexican bandits', safe and well, aiter payment of £1000 as a ransom.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1922, Page 7
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124MEXICAN BANDITS Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 152, 30 June 1922, Page 7
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