Brigandage in Mexico.
The Mexican papers report that on the evening of the 7th March a band of robbers, dressed as Indians, went to the little 1 town of Peto, near Merida, in Yucatan. A travelling company were playing in the theatre, the best people in the town forming the' audience. The robbers surrounded the theatre, a sufficient , number of them going in and plundering everyone of all the money and valuables on their persons—sometimes with violence. A party went on the stage, ransacked the wardrobe, and finally carried off the handsome prima donna, Madame Ruiz, and two goodlooking chorus girls. During the tumult a son of Madame Ruiz, a youth of fourteen years, was killed while defending his mother. The next day the robbers lent a message to Peto demanding three thousand dollars ransom for tfio captives. The money was at once collected, and the unfortunate women ■were released.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2180, 29 June 1886, Page 3
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150Brigandage in Mexico. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2180, 29 June 1886, Page 3
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