The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-27
BOLDEST OF
 BANDIT RAID Mexican Town Assault
 cd and Looted. THREE POLICEMEN KILLED Wild Stories of Revolutionary Out break Are Discredited. Jail Battered Down and Prisoners Re- leased. Bank and Government
 stamp once Robbed
 Troops Ordered Out
THREE POLICEMEN KILLED

City of Mexico, June 26 6.-Wild sto- ries concerning a formidable and seri- ous revolutionary outbreak In the northern part of Mexico were wholly discredited today by telegraphic re- ports received from Governor cardenas of the State of coahuila.
 According to these teIegraphio ad- vices. which were received by Vice. President Corral today. one of the boidest bandit raids ever attempted in the history of Mexico was successfully carried out when the town of Viesca was assaulted and footed yesterday.
 The bandits, numbering fifty. all well armed and mounted, swooped down upon the town without warning. feeble resistance was made by the police. but after three of them were killed and three more wounded, the marauders practically had things their own way. They first proceeded to the tail the doors of which edifice they battered down, releasing all of the Tn" mates, some of whom joined the rob- hers. The bandits next headed for the Bank of Nuevo Leon. a branch of the main institution of that name. which is located in the city of Monterey. They soon overpowered the employees there and robbed the bank of all the money they could get. From there the robbers, with a whoop. went to the Government stamp office, footing 1t and doing great damage to the postomce. They then turned their attention to the express office. robbing it..
 By this time, the whole of the towns population was terrified. The bandits cut the telegraph wires and tore up some railroad tracks. However. be. fore communication was interrupted, word was sent to the state capital or the assault. Governor Cardeuas infne- diateIy despatched local troops to the scene.
 Prepared fo Flee.
 After imprisoning the municipal or ficers and further terrifying the tnhabi- tants of the town, the bandits got word that troops were on the way to the scene. and prepared to flee.
 This morning they left. passing oy way of, the Hacienda Hornos and the town of Matamoros de La Guna. At this place they encountered the first detachment of troops sent to capture them. A lively fight ensued, Tn which one trooper was killed and sew eral wounded. The soldiers succeeded in capturing one of the bandits. but the remainder made their escape and are now in the wilds of the state Of Durango. having crossed the border between Coahuila and that State shortly after the battle.
 In commenting upon the happening Vice-President corrall said today:
 "For over score of years. the Re- public of Mexico has been absolutely free of bandit raids or uprtsings. For that reason we will nete out stern measures to these criminals in order that they and the world at large may know that the days of the bandid in this country have passed. From pri- yate information. which have re- ceived, I am satisfied that most of the men concerned in the raid have spent terms in jail before. The men were trying to rescue some companions. for ner railroad employees, who had been imprisoned and for that reason they first attacked the jail. We do not know the identity of the raiders, but have learned that some of them lived in the town footed. Large bodies of troops will run them down immediate ly until the last man is killed Or cap- tured."