FIENDISH MEXICAN REBELS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 30 September 1912, Page 7

FIENDISH MEXICAN REBELS.

TORTURE AMERICAN CITIZEN. SAVED BY BRITISH FLAG. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24. Arthur Wiggins, an American mining prospector, has told an extraordinary tale of cruelties perpetrated by Mexican rebels. A force of rebels visited a general store belonging to Wiggins in Mexican territory. Ho treated them well, and gavo them food drink, and they returned his kindness by firing revolvers at liLs store. No one in the store was hurt, and Wiggins told his men to act as if nothing had happened, but one of the men became excited and threw a stick of dynamite among the rebels, killing nineteen. Tho other rebels then seized Wiggins, charged him with having thrown tho dynamite, and decided to shoot him. Tho unlucky storekeeper had his hands tied to a rope, and was then hoisted up over the limb of a tree, whero ho was left hanging for half an hour

When the rebels returned with tho object of riddling his body with bullets Wiggins's wife threw the Union Jack over him, and dared them to fire. The rebels were over-awed by her determirjr ed attitude, and allowed Wiggins to escapu into United States territory.