Felix Galindo

“ Saenz informed him that President Barrios had given him $400 in cash, and loaned him $3,000 for two years without interest, on condition that he would head a party of filibusters who should take possession of Soconusco, causing to be signed in the towns petitions in favor of annexation to Guatemala. This Chacon believes to be true, because Barrios himself has proposed to give the witness money and official positions with the same object of annexing Soconusco to Guatemala ”

“ Timoteo Leon testified that it is true that President Barrios favors the filibusters who invade Mexico, which fact he knows because they are habitually organized and armed in Guatemalan towns in the presence of the authorities, who do nothing to impede them, although they have at their command the telegraph by which they might give information. ”

“ In the record of the investigation made last March by the Judge of First Instance at Tapachula, appear the depositions of Dr. Charles E. Mordaunt, an American citizen; José María Chacon, resident at Tapachula; Timoteo Leon, a Guatemalan by birth but Mexican by naturalization ”