Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitrations. 1716 - 1994. Records Relating to the Santa Ysabel Cases

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Records of Boundary and Claims Commissions and Arbitrations. 1716 - 1994. Records Relating to the Santa Ysabel Cases

1924-1936

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This series consists of affidavits, court papers (Docket No. 449), legal briefs and correspondence, congressional correspondence, photographs, and other records related to the murder of 15 U.S. citizens and employees of the Cusi Mining Company of Chicago on Jan. 10, 1916 in Santa Isabel, Chihuahua state, Mexico. The victims were Maurice Anderson, Avery Hollis Couch, John Pope Coy, Herman Hase, Thomas M. Evans, Thomas B. Johnson, Charles Rea Watson, Ernest Lionel Robinson, Richard McHatton, George W. Newman, William D. Pearce, Charles A. Pringle, Manuel Bonifacio Romero, Richard Henry Simmons, and William J. Wallace. Claims were filed by their family members against the Mexican government, but were denied by the Special Claims Commission. Collectively known as the Santa Isabel (Ysabel) cases, they drew the attention of the Department of Justice, and some signed correspondence from Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover and Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan is included. The Department of State also submitted evidence in the case. The massacre was blamed on followers of Francisco (Pancho) Villa. Some historical information on Villa and details of his 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico are also included. Some records are in the Spanish language, including volume 23, numbers 1-10 of the Mexican legal journal "Semanario Judicial de la Federation" from 1929. Meeting notes of the Special Claims Commission from January 1926, and two issues of the U.S. "Congressional Record" from 1936 are also included.

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