VILLA, THE BANDIT
FUGITIVE DESPERADO COMMITS 1 OUTRAGES By Telegraph—Press Association—Conyr'rr 1 Washington, January 13. In connection -with tlie shooting of Americans in Mexico, the outrage is regarded as a reprisal by Villa's partisans and revenge 011 tlie United States for recognising Carranza, thereby making him all-powerful. The Britisji Vice-Consul at El Paso has obtained a statement that Villa personally led tho massacre party. An eye-witness who,escaped says that a party of twenty-eight stopped and boarded a train, lined up the passengers 011 the track, and shot down eighteen, including a Canadian. The bandits looted the train of £14,000. Other sources state that after Villa's defeat in the late revolution he threatened Americans, and then took refuge i in the Sierra J) ad re Mountains, awaiting an opportunity to carry out his threat.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 15 January 1916, Page 5
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