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Commander of Malacatan, Don Joaquin Velasco, who promised the leader, Faustino Cárdenas, that he would offer no obstacle, and that the plan had for object to overthrow the existing authorities of the state of Chiapas, and to proclaim Don Pantaleon Dominguez; that the plan as well as the proclamations signed by Victor Fougier, an exile in that republic, were printed in Guatemala, but that these documents were thrown into a river when the invaders were overtaken by the Mexican troops sent in pursuit. García added that they also carried a box with bombs, though he did not know for what purpose.
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; and Juan María Coutiño, resident at Tapachula.
Mordaunt testified that he knows from the statements of several exiles and of some Guatemalans that the President of that republic has aided and continues to aid the revolutionists; that having seen the invaders of Tuxtla Chico at the time of their first incursion, he saw them again in the town of El Rodeo, Guatemala, engaged in trade with a capital furnished them by the President of Guatemala according to their own statement, and that he knows by the evidence of his own eyes that, on the two occasions when the Department of Soconusco was invaded, the arms and ammunition employed belonged to the Guatemalan army, that several Guatemalans accompanied the Mexican invaders, all of whom, on their return, were not molested but were aided by the said President.
