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T R A N
S C R I P
T I O N
SIXTEENTH COMPANY, FIFTH REGIMENT
SECOND BRIGADE, MARINE CORPS
ESTELI NICARAGUA
21 MAY 1928
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From: |
Marine Gunner L. Jenkins,
U.S.M.C. |
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To: |
The Commanding Officer, Marine
Detachment, Esteli, Nicaragua. |
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Subject: |
Report of Patrol. |
1. In compliance with your
verbal orders, I cleared Esteli at 1230
Saturday, 19 May, 1928 to investigate
airplane reports of presence of bandits
near Trinidad.
2. Leaving Esteli at 1230,
19 May, with fourteen enlisted men, we
proceeded to Trinidad, arriving there at
1800, same date, found all quiet. There
were quite a number of men in Trinidad
but no excitement. We met one Senor
Vicente Benavides, who was on his way to
Esteli to make a report of bandit
activities around his ranch. He returned
to Trinidad with me and furnished his
nephew as a guide to lead us to the
bandit camp. From Trinidad we took the
Jinotega road for about fifteen miles
and from information furnished by
natives, we must have been just about
one day behind the bandits. Upon
arriving at the place where the bandits
were supposed to be we learned that a
Marine patrol had passed there the day
before and the bandits had fled. We
later learned that it was Lieutenant
Kenyon's patrol that had encountered the
bandits. From information furnished by
natives, which I believe to be reliable,
the bandits, after being hit by
Lieutenant Kenyon's patrol, disbanded,
some going toward Colon and others
toward Trinidad. On our return trip to
Esteli, we apprehended one Bandilio
Espinosa who had in his possession one
S&W pistol cal. 38 special. Espinosa was
turned over to the Civil Police of
Esteli.
/s/ L. JENKINS
127/113C/33
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