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28.02.27.   Geyer, Patrol Report No. 3, Los Robles, Jinotega

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PROVISIONAL BATTALION

LOS ROBLES, NICARAGUA.

27 FEBRUARY 1928.

 

PATROL REPORT NO. 3.

     1. Lieutenant S. S. Jack, fifteen men and Captain Geyer commanding, on information that Sandino has to spend the night at the home of one Saloman Carvafal proceeded to San Antonio and return. Night patrol, mounted. Distance travelled eleven miles. Weather rainy, visibility zero, trail bad.
 
     2. Patrol left Los Robles at 2000-26 February 1928 investigated report and found same to be erroneous returned 0130-27 February 1928. Habitants as a whole suspicious and hostile. Saloman Carvafal too friendly. During the night a party of three men beat the woman, of the man who volunteered the information and guided the patrol to Carvafal finca with a club. Told her that if the beating was reported to us they would set fire to the house and kill her. Directed attack on woman he referred to local police.

/s/ P. C. Geyer,
Captain, USMC.
Bn-Ex, Bn-2

127/220/6

Summary & Notes:

   Night patrol to find EDSN suspect Salomón Carvajal, who they find and consider "too friendly."
   Natives encountered "suspicious and hostile" — but this was a night march, and any natives encountered would've been rousted from their beds and had their homes invaded — no wonder they were suspicious and hostile!

   Woman beaten by three men because her man provided info to Marines and guided them to Carvajal's house; threatened her with death if she reported the beating; Marines refer the matter to the local police; she may well have ended up dead; a revealing & tragic commentary on rural gender relations.

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