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I 1 .1- SA 44-2889 "A short iile later. a Reeves County Deputy sheriff. named Jenkins. drove up in e pertrol car and said that he thought we were on private land. He said that it might be a good idea to leave until it was determined whether the land was public or private. we asked to show him a map which would indieete that we were on peblie land. but we found that we had left the map with the original group at the onion field. pp "Paula Cruz was then sent to bring the map to him. "While Paula Cruz 92as gone. another deputy, unrecalled - possibly Ingrams. drove up. He we were on private property and should leave. name said _ "We told this deputy what we were doing and that we could produce a map showing that we were on public land. The deputy then said that if we did not leave in ten seconds, we would be arrested. He then began counting. He finished counting and said we were all under arrest. There were twenty-seven of us, consisting of three wunen. eight or nine children, and the rest were men. About ten or fifteen of the people who were arrested were people who had been working in the cantaloupe field. "During the two hours that we had been at the field, there had.been some movement of people between the two picketing locations. "The two deputies made all twnty-seven people get in a pick-up truck belonging to me of the strikers and we than started to drive to the Sheriff's Office in Pecos, Texas. The truck was_running badly. and a short while later. about ten miles north of
ne picketing area. we were met by Sheriff A. B. Hail in a pick~up truck. He took about ten people in his truck. Another deputy. Orquides. drove up in a squad Clr. and took about four people in his car. F- S.