New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-18
Bandit Who Sent 81 Per
sons to Death Captured
in New Mexico.
CROSSED BORDER
TO ESCAPE REBELS
Mexican Outlaw. Once Madero S
Bodyguard, Harried CHI
huahua Two Years.

III paso. Tex. Feb alamo Hueeo
h.camo to-day the Waterloo OF the no'ed
N.xican bandit chief, Maxine Casuho,
ard lieutenant Thomas \. RothweH' OF
Tho 9Th United states Cavalry. was Ms
Wellington 49,.
The outlaw. who is responsible Tor we
burning TO death Of hfty-two persons III
Guiding ten Americans, in inc Cu"'p'0
tunnel is prisoner Tonight oil u,e
United States army az Hachita. y. NJ
10 WAS captured at Alamo liueco. on tne
Nsw Nexico border. with six Of his oaho'
who composed his bodyguard- Dispatches
from columbus. y. NJ. and from hachi'''
&C well As from troop patrols along 'hS
-aorder saw that the bandit leader WAS
.a,,ured this afternoon. has been recos-
pized by Americans who kno" MN anu
will be kept at IIachita awaiting oroe'S
from the War Department as TO MS as
position.
Since the Cumbre tunnel disaster Cas-
lilo has been a fugitive from repel ven
Ccance. once ne was officially reported
rsptured and executed with several OF his
men. but it proved 10 be mistake the
men captured having been members OF
his band who had become separated from
the NAN body Of the bandits.
Crossed to American Side.
Hard pressed by rebels, who were
searching the whole mountain district
for him. Castillo made his way 10 his old
haunts on the New Mexico border where
for the last t9o years he had been rob
bing American cattlemen and holding
Americans until friends ransomed them.
II Is supposed that fear Of capture by
the rebels. who would have shot him at
once, led Castillo to cross TO the American
side and il is not believed that he would
have surrendered TO American troops If
he could have avoided doing so. II is
thought that Castillo planned TO Keep IN
hiding at Alamo Hueco. remote point
on the border. until the rebel chase
ceased. when he would 80 back into Mex
leo and resume his raids. Castillo &c
fused TO say anything after his capture
Detachmcnts Of he 9Th Cavalry were
sent tonight 10 Dog Springs near Inc
border. where il was reported that cas-
tiro's entire band Of forty or fifty were
in hiding. There may be a battle between
them ana tUs american sviNI''@'
Was Madero's Bodyeusrd.
Should this practically official report o.
Castnlo's capture prove true, one of the
most desperate characters in Mexico has
been brought to the close of an exciting
career-for the time. at least Three years
or a little more have passed since Cas-
tflo was the personal bodyguard Of Fran
cisco Madero. later President of Mexico
and now mourned by Constituencies
as a martyr TO the rebel cause. Wher-
ever Madcro went there went Castillo, his
tall. straight figure and long beard being
conspicuous beside the diminutive leader
Of the revolutionary party in Mexico.
Castillo expected 10 be made chief ~
the Mexican rurale forces when Madero
became President. and when he failed to
get that place he became bandit. lie
has been an outlaw ever since, and IN
Western chihuahua he has been terror
TO natives and Americans for two years.
1t is said that Castillo will be taken 10
Fort Bliss and placed in the prison camp
there.