The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-06
VILLA DEMANDS
BIG RANSOM BUT
DENIES Liberty
Already Pa:d $650,00 in Gold,
Broke Agreement, and Asks
100000 Pesos More.
LUIS TERRhZA is AGAIN
IN Tolls OF BANDIT CHIEF
Aged Father Appeals to United
States Consul for Assistance
in Matter.

FL Paso, TEX, March j.--Luis
Tereazls, todav Appealed to Marion
fletcher, American consul at Chi
huahua, now in this city, to save his
sen Llis. whose life had been d.
clared forfeited if 100000 pesos ran.
som money is not paid over to Gen.
villa, the rebel leader
# nm SO years old and ncitho,
life naf money mean much TO ne
said The elder Terrazas. My sol
L 5 has thirteen children and they
need him. would gladly return tc
Chihuahua and villa could kin me
instead OF my son.
Whiie Gen. Terrazas did not say ae
much, The interview left the infer
ence that he is now in possession OF
! the sum demanded Luis, his son,
! is about 80 years old, and for se|.
eral months has been held prisones
/ by the rebels.
| At the time of the arrest, the reb
els demanded $G50,000 in gold, as
the price Of his life. this sum was
slow in being paid and L1is was
taken out and moose adjusted abut
hj5 hoal and then he was gently
hoic.cl from his seat. The torture
was repeated until he signaled tha.
he would pay the sum demanded.
After this incident Ire was talveF
froa tSa palace, whore he had tee
confined, and allowed to live undol
guard with his family in one of hls
fathtrll houses. Women relatives
sometime later appealed to villa t
release aim. but in vain
/ 1t was said tonight that the mos
/ serious obstacle in the way of tn
matter was to allow Luis to leav(
Mexico after the money is paid.
Gen. T%rrazas, in reply TO Will,
made the payment of the money cen
tingont upon mis- son being brougn'
to the international bridge here
This villa declined to do.
Villas message to Gen. Tcrraz'
said that the money must be pal
Within FIVE days or Don Luis wou,;
be killed,
El raso, Tex, March 5.-Th
Joint commission appointed by tn
United States and British govern
ments TO investigate the manner
which William S. BENTON, a Britis'
subject, met death at the hands o
General Francisco villa, will not
: allowed to proceed to Chihuahr;
and coatinIe its. Investigations unit
a commission appointed by Gencra
Vensustiano Carranza, head of t.
Ccnstitutonalist government, h
INVESTIGATED and reported on til
= death OF Benton.
: Whether the joint commission j
THAT lIlhC " III BC dllOH ca W SO u
Chihuahua rests entirely with Gen
\ eral Cairanza. In his order Wed
nesday appointing the Constitution
alist commission Carranza complete
. ly ignored the American British
J. commission.
The personnel of the Carrarz
+, commission, the members OF whici
arrived here from Nogales. Sonora
- today is as follows: General Ra
mon Fraustro, president: Or. Miguc
ISilya, aud Miguel Lara, an attor
% ncy This commission opened its IN
> vestigation at Juarez today. I'll
II first procedure will be to examin
10 tho members of the military cour'
~ which, it is alleged, passed senteno
of death on Benton. Then witnesse
" testifying at the court martial Wi
' be summoned. as well as witnesse
> who were present in Villas offie
ii at the time Benton is said to hay
y provoked Villa, and thus brougl
l. about his own execution.
Orders Body Exhumed.
General Carranza has ordered tn
exhumation of Benton's body for
medical examination only after 81
u commission has fully determine
r that thpro has been an iufraetion {
> law or an irregularity in the pr,
~ ceedngs of the court martial. Othc
' wise, the body in all probability vi
> not be exhumed.
" General Carranza's order appoin
ing the investigation eemmissie
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