MARRIAGE UNDER ARMS.
GIRL AS SPOIL OF WAR
How General Villa, the leader of the northern .Mexican rebels, recently acquired an American girl as his wife 19 told in a despatch received at New York from Torreon, Coahuila. faintering that troubled city at the head of his troops, he noticed her at the door of an American store, where she was employe*] as cashier. Acquaintance followed, but a proposal of marriage was rejected. A iilf of soldiers then surrounded the place, and the proprietor is said to have handed the girl over to the rebel leader. A wedding by priests and civil authorities followed. The bride wept at first, but later became resigned to her fate.
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Mt Benger Mail, 11 March 1914, Page 4
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