BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

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in the office of the department of foreign relations on the Paseo
de la Reforma and it was a fairly good suit of clothing that he
had worn while working there that he exchanged for the peon's
outfit. it was also through the charity of his former employer
in the government office that he was released from his unwilling
detention in Calle Violeta.
"The boy's mother, Angela Ramos, who lives at No. 4 Calle
Zanja, had expected to meet him at the Alameda, where he was
waiting when Hernandez came along. Not seeing him, she
started inquiry, which elicited the information that he had been
seen going away with a man who was supposed to be a labor
contractor, and she forthwith hunted up Ignacio Arellano, who
is employed in the foreign relations building, and explained to
him her trouble.
POLICE APPEALED TO.
"Mr. Arellano, accompanied by Alfredo Marquez, an emploe
of the department of fomento, secured the addresses of
three establishments commonly known as 'casas de enganchadores,'
located variously at Calle de Moctezuma, 7a Calle de
Magnolia, and la de Violeta. Their experience as related yesterday
to a representative of The Herald was much the same at
each place and was about as follows:
"At each of the labor contractors' 'offices' where they sought
admission they were refused, being told that they had no such
individual as the boy in question in their charge. At each place
the assertion was made that they never contracted persons under
age. Finding their efforts fruitless, Arellano and Marquez took
the matter to the fifth comisaria, where it was explained to
Subcomisario Bustamante, who detailed an officer and two
secret service men to the places in question with orders to
search them thoroughly.
SEARCHING THE HOUSE.
"No particular resistance was made to the entrance of the
officers at either the Moctezuma or Magnolia street places. In
the former were about a dozen men who had signed contracts
to go out of the city to work on plantations, while in the latter
were about twice the same number. These men are said to have
claimed that they were refused permission to leave the place
where they were lodged while waiting transportation to their
ultimate destinations.