Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-22
A FIRING SQUAD
FINALLY GOT AT
NJ. NJ. MIRANDA
OROZCO ORDERED EXECUTION OF
MAN WHO WAS ACTIVE IN
BROWNSVILLE FEW MONTHS
AGO As FEDERAL AGENT.
AT SAN LUIS POTOSI
MEXICO CITY PAPER REPORTS HE
WAS AHHESTED-OR -OROZCO SET
TIED OLD SCORE. FOR MIRANDA
ONCE DID HIN.


a Mexican federal firing squad a, San
Luis Potos recently disposed Of NJ. VI.
Miranda. according 10 an issue Of FL
impartial. a Mexico city paper. copy
of which has been reviewed here He was
executed bv orders Of PaScual Orozco.
who learned that Miranda was under ar
rest at san Luis Poto>i t. Was taken
ia charge bv Gonzalo Enrile who knew
him al III ra>o during the Orozco rev,.
luton. At that time il seems that Mi
randa got in with Enrile and Orozco and
afterwards when sent on mission To
New Orleans with Roias Nerliz Ia buy
ammunition for Orozco he turned i'm.
former and appeared as n witness on
the back Of indictments against Orozco.
Enrile and Rojas Ncrtiz in the federal
court ut FL Paso.
Miranda was well known ia Browns
willie and IN Matamoros and had cheek
cred career here. So far as Mexiran poll
ties were concerned Last February, just
previous Ia the lifting Of the embargo On
arms he was active in the work of 10
eating arms and ammunition shipped
here for the constituiionalists. and sue
ccedc'i in getting confiscatcd nv the
United States government several hun
dred thousand rounds Of ammunition.
Miranda was sent here M that time
by Arturo Elias. inspector general of
Mexican federal consnlatcs ~ San An
tonic, and there was no work for him
To do here following the raising Of the
embargo and he and perhaps twenty IF
his assistants returned Ia San Antonio.
II was then that he il reported 10 have
been sent 10 Mexico City on special
mission by Elias. and later turning up
at San Luis Potosi h. was seen and ar
rested by the man. Enrile
Miranda first came into prominence in
Matamoros in February of iala At that
time he was working as Pullman con
durtor and on his first trip into Mata-
moros was taken from his car by the of
ficcrs of the garrison in Matamoros. NJ
that time n Fclicista garrison. lie was
placed in the Matamoros Jail and after
trial WAS sentenced to be- shot rs "A rebel
spy. However. after a month in the
Matamoros Jail he managed tc secure his
release by keeping the wires hot 10 Mex
leo City. The telegram authorizing his
release il happens was delivered 10 him
as he was being taken out TO the cxccu.
tion.
Miranda's family at .sst time was in
Matamoros. They came 10 Brownsville
and upon his release he followed them.
lie then accompanied his family 10 San
Antonio. and j short time later. or in
May, 1913. he turned up nj the rebel
camp of General I.ucio Blanco mt Rio
Bravo. Tie Joined Blanco's rebel trops
and was made a captain. lie was an Of
lficcr in the rebel ranks during the bat
tie of Maiamoros on June !. lie IL said
Ito have been a good fighter and made n
good record fighting for himself in that
battle
4 few davs after the capture Of Mata-
moros complaint was registered with
General Blanco that the Cross store in
Matamoros had been entered and a con
siderable amount 0f merchandise taken
ltNcrefrom. shortly after this Miranda
Wis placed under arrest on fhe charge
of having been connected with the
trouble. and he was sent across country
Ito Eagle Pass. where General Carranza's s
headquarters were nj that time. Whether
Ianything was ever done in connection
. with the case was never learned but al
least he was not any longer connected
. with the constitutionalistS.
Miranda was not heard Of again unit
he turned up in Brownsville last Jan
Iuarv rs n special agent for the federals