File No. 312.11/755a.
The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, July 26, 1912—3 p.m.
In a speech in Congress, Senator Fall, of New Mexico, declares that the American citizens whose names are given below have either been killed, or robbed, or have suffered indignity—it is not clear from his speech just which; and that El Paso citizens [Page 821] have been arrested in Juárez and shot. He also alleges the killing, January 22, 1911, of an American woman citizen of the United States, in some colony (not named), and the outrage of her young daughter (name not given), presumably in an American colony near the border (location not given); also that a little girl named Mabel Richardson was outraged, neither time nor place given. He also alleges that $5,000 worth of flour belonging to American citizens was seized in Juárez while under the seal of the American Consulate.
The persons first above referred to are named J. P. Brown, Guy Taylor, Leslie Combs, John Tilford, B. L. Croft, Rulon Peterson, Daniel Skousen, James Skousen, Joseph Jackson, Loran Taylor, Harvey Taylor, George Romney, James Young, James Memmott, Ernest Goldner, Mr. Hollingsworth.
The Department has no record of any of these alleged occurrences. Investigate and report immediately.