THE TARANAKIAN. THE BANDIT VILLA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 6

THE TARANAKIAN.

THE BANDIT VILLA.

AN KXCELLKNT I'IIODI'ITJOX. We are in receipt of u copy of ''The Taranakian' (the magazine of the Hoys' lli.;ii School, New Plymouth) for the t. iin ended May List. Tnis publicaUo.i u ediu-d sa.ely Iby the boys' and if ii continues to maintain: the standard 1/y the May number, it rviii form one li.e bust adiVnui.-'emeiits its senoul cou'.j have, and cannot b,' too -.vii'e'y cirri lated. I! is ixcellently got up. .mm !j----rcading matter is. interspersed wita striking photograp'lis of the school an! its surroundings, as we'll as some of tlie Ih-est of New Plymouth's beauty sp"!;.

Tile library side of the magazine i excellent. C.uefally Compiled, iit e;a braces the whole work and pinv of tin

:. 8001, an.! includes artiiies which display ,iii inlellig nt grip of tlie necdi-.iii'l objects <.f the e tablishmcnt. The editorial dells ia a able manner with llie questioil «f K-b.;<>t .v.d t iic value of a sain mind in a lieaCthy body. It deals intelligently w'tli illie value of manly spoJ:'. v.'ithoul losing .-sight of t'he need for n.i-deration in Ihis as in all tilings'. Then f.-Ilow l-hree ■'r four cw.i----1 mentorie-i on cirri nt t op'es bearing r,n .the growth of i-ie mho d. ''Sclioo' | Xoites" shows the late ti»i< roll. ;• j mission and depart:; " w'th a lis'. (V. no means incor-idcr. ' '- I nt' t'-> sni-res-j ses achieved in the sch I'lt- field. Th-n j f; -fI'OW--] a budgfit of scliool IK'WI!, whir!: I g ves an interesting insight into the lit II le world of the school, displayinc a I clear perception of what is due by it. 1 . ; inhabitants without any Mtiark of "prig-gi.-fluiess." Th?,< should lie interesting to parents and (.1(1 boys. The sports division ia well handled. If extends over many pages mid gives a complete account, of thn scliool doings ill this direction. There is an interesting little budget of notes written br the preparatory boys. One of the mo-st interesting features of this section of the magazine is the agricultural section dealing with the work in Ihe various soils plots. In this respect the school seems likely to do valuable work in a district like Tarauaki.

I Tn some respects perhaps the most in- ' foresting portion of the magazine is that near the end —"Old IJovs' NetCs'' These have been carefully compiled, and boys who have long since left the school will he interested to learn of the doings of tlieir old school comrades. These pages contain mention of some of New Plymouth's most prominent eitiKcns, and others who have prospered much farther afield. Included in this section is a list of old boys in order of enrolment from the opening of the school in February, ISS2. Pages from the sellout pro-pcctus close the magazine. Altogether the magazine is a distinct credit to the hoys and shows not a little latent literary ability. It is worthy the at tenth" e' eny.T':' wh , is interested in the >chonl.

A KKU.'ii'j ;a'L iARKKK. OK .Ul'llihCK ,v.nU 'i uUTIjUE. (I!,v a i-u'.Tispuiuh-nt of London :i i ll l'umd.u> V*k W( born ut Las N'icvis in I hi! ivatc of Dwranyo ab.nit tlm ywir 1808. ilo is wlwiiy uii-ulturcd. ''••ii'S link illl- ill. read and barely able ■to -s»«u 'iiis nil me. About tlliu .year 1882 when ~ny l'oui l'!en year* of age, in-

was Ni-iitenced to a levin of imprisMiiiii'iif. lor eaule slcatiiig. On his d;tv charge he settled in the. mining camp of Guanaec-vi. whe-e a few months la let he underwent anot'iier ■sentence of i>v prisoiinieiit jor homicide. When he came out of'pr.si n ifor the second time he or-gani-ed a Land of robbers, which had t'l.eir 'hi ui!ijii:ti'tei's in the ie J ■ nPteineuregion of ••purk-o,'' in .the State of l>ur.ingo, and weve the terror of alt that district.

In the year l!i|/7 he was in partnership Willi one Francisco- Heal, .stealing cattle in Chihuahua and tilling them in the United States, and then stealing muled and horses in the United States and selling them in Chi'liuailuw. In eonseq k nci- of some disagreement he shot ami killed Ileal in broad daylight, while sitting 'ill the plaza in the City of Oh.'hua'iiua. During the early part of November, 1910, he attacked (the factory of a Mr. Koto, in Ailendo, .State of Chihuahua, and killed the owner. By threatening tihe la.tter's daughter he forced lii.t to show where she had hidden a sum of 11,000 dollars, which lie stole and used for arming a ccn jiderabi '' force. He then joined Muidero'* revolu tion, uniting lis hand with lirbina's column. In January, ><)11, he was at Casas Grau u ', Ofhu-iI.IM, V.'he;:;' 'lie killed Carlos Alalor.e :i:il Luis Arti/J, for refusing to pay !i:::i the money he demanded. for J.i; r ,n-

At r.'-itiipihu, '." l.Me 'of O'uiimalisia, in February l if the y.-.ir lie- In-lund a lady named f-'ciKu.i V.: 1.- de la Luz. Gomez until he .made her pay him 30, 000 dollars. She died {nam the effects of the bub.u'ou; treatment she received, COLD-BLOODED } affllMßS. 1 When Ciudad Juarez was tniken from the Federals in May, I<JU, ilie killed Seiior Igacio Gomez Oyola, a man of over sixty years of - age, under the following eircum; lances: "Having sent for] him, Villa asked e.'lutlicr Iho had any. amis i:i '.ii i h':.-use, and on his -s.tying he had not, Villa, who w.ih seated on a tabic, drew his revolver and -viiot him o'ead. After rilling the corpses of money iiinl valuables it was thrown into the street.

_.After_ tli? triumph of the revolution, \ ;.la, in Noveirfher, 1!)U, obtained a monopoly f: ;,J m the then Governor of t'hllhuahua for the sale of meat in the city of Ohihiia'l'.ua, which he prwured by stealing cat,tie from the neighboring farms. Suspecting one of his sitbor (I'-nates, Oliri.-toVii Juarez, of stealing on his own account, he killed .him oil',; night in it'ce latter part of November in tli.- Calle de la Liber,tad. I'n the ea.ily part of 'May, 1913, Villa with 'seventy-live men, assaulted a train at liaeza, State of Chihuahua, thv.it was carrying bars of gold and silver valued it lOC'jU'X) oesos. ' kii-.ing the crew and • iie-iudiiig Miosis ' ,iravante« ana a 'i-nar Is.vie Ilirrerc cf C'.'r.iiaii Guerrero. '.a-"!- iu the same month outer:' l llie town or <an Andres. Chiiiuahu" and a.-sauMei! tt'ie house of Senor Sab:.-, Murga, an I'acendado, who, with his t «•: s-'il l . tried ,(;; di-feud llveniselve.-. 'l\vo t.f liis nephews we" ■ kill: d, bn; the Muvg is go! n way. \'iila then got h-ol.i of two s-::- in-!.:w of Murga, v.'lio bad not t ikir ;i.ir! in the ligbt. an 1. after toriui-lcg them to say where their lalhov-in-V,v/ I, id hidden hi.s money, lie had 111< i:. ki hd. Tew;-;; !.h. m l of the month Villa's bin I toak ll:e town of Sta. liosalia, ('lrV.'aa'iaa. -hooting all prisoners and t.nairi':- ill- principal officers with tc.r----i Id," .'.'Keltv. Col'.iiiel Puclilecita was '''i",t and his body dragged along the si reels of the town. The commercial houses of Me-srs Visconti, iSal'li, Cia Ilarinera, Sordo y lilanco (Spaniards), and many others, were totally sacked. -Many pri.ate persons were murdered, one of the worst ca*»s being that ! af a Spaniard, Seller Montilla, cashier of tihe he use of Sordo y Bianco, who w;m shot over the head 'of liis wife, who tried fn defend him. A' lla personally kicked lie!- in the t'aee a» she, lav on the dueld ibodv of her husband. lie also hinl-iff killed a Senor H.amos. seerctary of the 1 Court of First Instance. He arrested morei than twenty cf the liriiK-ioa! people of Sta. Po-aila, (orturI iug h'lein and taking Ihenn out t' ( > be J shot until lie obtained from fcliem 70, flflO pesos, which were collected by several people in order to save their Pvcs One of these was a, lady, Sonera Maria 1!. 'Ooviero, who.was. herself al-o torlur ed until tihe sum Villa wanted was fortfeeoniing.

WHOLESALE ATROCITIES. In July, 1013. Villa took Cueas. lliMii(i -s, Chihuahua, and shut more 'ehan tighty nonconiDutant.), violating several young girls, annngst them two young ladies named Castillo. lie attacked and took the town of San Andes, w'liic-.h was held by the Fed era Is, in September, l!ll:l, Mioorng many peaceable residents and more than 130 prisoners, many of these being women and children. In shooting these people, in order to economise cartridges, lie placed on,; behind the other up to live at one time, very few of them being killed outright. The bodies of the dead and wounded were llicn soaked with petroleum and thrown into into bonfires prepared for the purpose. The prisoners weve forced themselves to make the bonfire and covered l with petroleum 111.: I'M of the victims. After this lie went to the small town of Carretas, where he took prisoner an old man of more than 70 years of age, inured .'-.v ..'lores .Moreno, demanding •••> ' i a ransom of 200 dollars. As c,.uld not pay. Villa killed him with ' , own hand.

'ln September 20. 1 HlVilla, having 'ivi rpwered a force of over ,100 Fed era!-, commaud-'d by '"b '.i-"il A'vires:, at. Aviles, Id kilometres from Torrcon, had every prisoner shot.

Towards the cud of November lie took the city of Juarez by surprise. Nearly all the Federal ollicers who were taken there were shot, -as well as seme, sixty lion-eo.'ivhaluiit.s. most of them inferior employees and servants. The higher employees had managed to escape across tile river to the American city of El Paso, Texas.

Oil December S. 101:1, Villa took ponm'smou of the town of Chihuahua, which l'.'d been abandoned bv the Federals since 'November 28, sei/.ii'e viie commercial houses of Spaniards and Mexicans down to .he smallest bars and drug stores, besides some owned by other foreigners.

Moreover, Villa expelled nil lite Spaniards, obliging: more than .HI!) Spanish fnmrlics to leave > witCiiii l.liree day.s. Only two Spaniards disobeyed this order —namely, two brother*, Martinez, owners of a small eatins-honse. Villa thereupon ordered tlieni to be healen to death.

CHILDREN HELD TO RANSOM. Senor Pwlro Olwares. an old and very inlirra man, whose shop, under fclio name' cf Jose Ma Sanchez, Successor, had teen already plundered, is being held until he pays 50,000 dollars for two of his children, these aisio 'having been held for ransom, i Many prwic houses have been oci-n- ---; p'.ul 1 >.v ViU's men, who use their earf:.r'o and autemo^l. : hi'se last are <1 at '.he Ul 1 poo-U of public women j i tin ir daily orgies j The 'house of Scnora T. »S. Vda. .de Pri- ! eto is at'so occupied by tlie rebela. This ] 'ady paid 25,CW pesos to Villa to allow I her to leave the 'town. I' Villa has shot in Chihuahua l."i() itnncomba tanks, the greater number bei'i, poor people who could not leave for wait j of means, or ;becaus2 they thought they , ran no rislw, as they took no part hi ] politics. Tor all the p?. pie in, any .vny > connected with the Go 'eminent had '?tf 1 before Villa entered Iho city. Special mention may ibe mad; to tiin case i Senor Ignacio Irigoyen am! Pi nor Jos* A. Yanez, who though in no way wmI nccitcd with politVs, were taken by Villa and tortured for seveml days with threats to thfm until they paid ransoms of '20,000 dollars each, Having obtained from ViCla hiniv'df afe conducts to leave by train for the bordi-r, i the train in which they were was caught up at the f tation of Montezuma by i>. loricmietive in wli.slh were several clfi cers in Villa's confidence, headed, by an j ex-M'wlern'ta deputy called Miguel Baca RonquKlo, who tool< themi from the train and sihot them in the presence of the passengers. June 30, 1915, now marks t'he limit of the Westminster lIKUKNT (lift Scheme.. . It has been extended at the request of hundreds of smokers who also want to l secure free gifts. Write for Free (lift Catalogue to-day, to Regent, Hox 331, Wellington. 3^ NEVER WITHOUT THEM. "For five years I suffered with indigestion and constipation," says Mr. \V. Il\ Dnnstan, Menzies, W.A. "I tried • ilozi'um of medicines, but obtained no J I relief. !!e:i: ; ng .my customers speak I Ijo MgWv of Ommbei'laill's Tablets I I 1 l!:em a trial. After only a few! doses my health was greatly improved I and after a course 1 was completely re- j lieved of both complaints.'' Sold by all - chemists and storekeepers. 1