The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-12
MEXICAN BANDIT
NOT CAPTURED
Castillo's Execution Declared
to be a Hoax Invented
by General
Villa.
STILL LEADING BAND
United States Troops Prevented In
vasion Of Juarez and Cap
tured Four Hundred
Horses.
STILL LEADING BAND

tuVSO 6O0t t1St0t sA
Horses.
limited Press Leased Wire Service.] I
Ell PASO, Texas, Feb. 12.-That the |;
telsgrams received in Juarez announc-
ing the capture of Maxine Castillo
and his Mexican bandits who were re-
sponsible for the destruction OF
Cumbre tunnel and the subsequent
fatalities in it we're manufactured by
'Pancho' Villa" is the charge mace
by Emilio Garcia, Castillos lieutenant,
according to a dispatch from Hachita,
N. NJ, today. Garcia is detainedl
there by United States troops.
He asserts he has private informa-
tion that Castillo Is recruiting his
troops IN northern Mexico.
That Castillo had been captured
and executed is untrue. It was in
sisted dispatches had been received
making such announcement. The
kilograms were signed constitutions
officers. hs said, and he is now con-
vinced that they were hoaxes.
Support OF the Garcia statement
that Castillo is still at large is founr
in the rumor that the attempt last
night or 400 Mexicans to invade
Juarez from the American side was
to have been led by Castillo.
General Hugh Scott at Fort Bliss
called out four troops OF Uniten
| States cavalry when he was advised
that more than fifty autos lea ded, wits,
armed Msxicans were speeding down
T the river from Ell Paso to Ysieta,
twelve miles east, evidently intending
to ford the Rio Grande there. Amerl-
can cavalry mn rushed to the fora
and prevented the invasion, selling
400 horses, and many saddles, brides.
blankets and other. equipm mt. Six
Mexicans were arrested but deniee
completely in any plot.
The exploration of the Cumbre tun-
mel near Pearson proceeds. The bones
of G. H. Marderis, express auditor
aboard the Mexican Northwe western
train which was wrecked in the bore
were found today They were ident--
fed by Marderis' express key.
/ The north side of the tunnel has
/ not been explored, as the fire started
! by Castillo,s bandits is still burning.
There are several earth falls near the
north portal.
\ Villa is An American.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Feb. 12.--
That General Francisco Villa is an
American and former ncn-commis
! stoned officer in the United States
army, was the statement made today
j by W. A. Haynes, an attache of the
quartermaster's Office at the preside
corroborates him.
The men say Villas real name is
George Gold,sby, that he was born in
Maryland and enlisted from there in
/ the tenth u. S. cavalry. They de
clare they served in troop D of thai
regiment with him. Goldstby being
first sergeant. In 1882. Haynes says
i Goldsby T5ft the service and went te
j Mexico. He identified Photograph O
Villa IS Goldsby. Scott declares he re
I Gently crossed the border near E
{ Paso and met Villa personally ant
: they exchanged "reminiscences of thu
days when they wore the U. s.. uni
form. Scott says Gcldsby went tt
). Mexico from Fort Davis and took TIL,
/. name of Ronstotz He became /;
major in the Mexican army and late
turn,d bandit befol< going to tn,
standard of Francisco Maderc
Haynes and Scott both bear reputa
tjons for veracity.
Huerta Shows His Books.
lBy United Press Staff correspond
ent.
! MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.-To satisf
. Japanese armament dealers that tn
Huerta government can pay for can
! non. rifles and ammunition ordere,
for the federal army from Japan, d
; Mori, an accredited Japanese ofiNcia
| today was investigating the financis
status Of the government Genera
) Huerta surrendered to him all of til
itl books and records of the treasury d,
, partment and gave Mori all the assis
, ance and information possible. Huert
; has not relaxed his vigilance agains
! an uprising within the capital thoug
u popular excitement caused by the di
+ coyery of widespread conspirac
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