TOWN SACKED
MEXICO’S WILD BANDITS
MEXICO CITY, May 21
Two hundred bandits raided and sacked the hamlet, of Peso del Macho Slate of V<>ra Cruz, killing four persons anj wounding several others. The desperadoes attacked a mixed freight am| passenger frsio v'-i li ’° 1 halted at (lie station, but seven Federal soldiers aboard held them off until the inguuw was able to pull -ut < I' tie' ('anger zone. A hundred soldiers under Genera! Arredondo were rushed to Peso del Macho from Orizaba.. The bandits bad rl’s'inoparcd when the troops arrived and th<‘ soldiers went but to see who--11>..?r !hov c iild find them. The attack on the hamlet started at dawn. A judge and throe policemen wore killed and the Mayor was gravely wounded. One passenger in Ihe train wa- He.l in the shoulder but tile others escaped bv lying oil tile floor of Ibe aisles 'l' ■’ sides of the train wore peppered with bullets.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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155TOWN SACKED Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1932, Page 8
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