THE BANDIT VILLA
STORMY CAREER ENDED
Press Association-—By Telegraph—Oopyrigh
NEW YORK, July 20.
A message from Chihuahua' Cit; Mexico, says that General Francisi Pancho Villa, the former bandit chi commander of 35,000 rebel troops : Northern Mexico, was shot and killed 1: his secretary, whom his chieftains ai; adherents killed in the ensuing battl Villa had long menaced the souther border of the United States, which i 1916 despatched a. punitive expcditic wherein General Pershing first gaine fame. President Obregon pardoned Vill in 1920, and he retired to his farm whii his men were each awarded a year’s pa and a small farm, which grants totalle two million dollars in gold.—A. and N./ Cable.
THE DEED DESCRIBED.
SECRETARY NOT RESPONSIBLE,
NEW YORK, July 22, (Received July 23, at 10 a.m.)
_ Official telegrams from Mexico exonerate Miguel Trillo, Villa’s secretary, from blame for the general’s death. Villa, accompanied by Trillo, two guards, and h;s chaffcur, was motoring in Parras. While crossing a bridge tin; parly was attacked from'both ends by parlies of men. Villa and Trillo wore shot dead simultaneously and the remaining members of the party wore killed. President Obregon ordered full military honors at Villa's funeral.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 6
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