The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-15
ADVENTURES FROM
u. S. LOOT MEXICO
One, Connected with ViIls's ca m 70,
Tells Of the "Essy Money,"


II was the first morning out Of Chi
cage on the Golden State Limited and
the endless prairie landscape of Kansas
was beginning to wear on the nerves OF
the men In the cafe section OF the OBJ
serva'ion car when a heavy jowled
leather lunged man. wearing a large
checked suit and a wide brimmed Pan
anna. roared out
Sure. I am with villa. II is a gamble
and ! pick him to win. Expect to clean
UP $780, 900 inside OF the next three
months and then watch me hit 1t for
the coast"
The Judge, with whom | was seated.
smiled. for he is a big man in the
Southwest, a fine specimen OF frontier
de velopment he once had been public
prosecutor and he knows men and their
peculiarities.
"Yonder you see the type OF Ameri-
can who sets back the clock of civiliza-
ton In Mexico" he commented. and El
Paso just now IL full Of such adven-
turers."
Notwithstanding this warning. the
villa man proved to be highly interest
ing for the purpose OF the writer's Jour
ney. for before we had crossed the line
into New Mexico hat night he was ex-
hibiting with eclat a surprising photo
graphic collection OF villa assassinations
executions" he called them. These
were among the treasures OF his suit
case, and he appeared to be quite proud
of their possession.
That's how Pancho puts the espanter
(fear) into the guerbanza eaters" he
said. adding grimly Seen hundreds
shot. They dropped like logs. You see. l
am connected with Villas commissary
department and am just back from hir-
ing two telegraph operators and an
eronaut in Chicago; have supervised
the spending of thousands OF dollars
of Villas money"
LOoting scheme PrOpOsed.
But for this mans soonest, highly re-
spected. aged relatives In New Haven
Conn. I would surely attach his name
to these facts. for he coolly proposed
during the trip that I embark with him
i'm a sinister business nothing less than
IN. Illicit traffic in loot out Of Mexico
and arms and ammunition into that uii-
happy land. and for which undertaking
I was asked to supply $4,000 gold
against his contribution OF influence with
General Francisco villa and certain bor-
z
IL. neverthel.s s. was n rich And. I'M
expected and most welcome, for he gave
me an early introduction into the ways
of the rascals at the throttle OF the en-
CINE OF government In Mexico before l
had even glimpsed the barren hills.
rocky canyons and arid valleys dotted
with cacri beyond Ciudad Juarez, or
locke Ito tne flow OF muddy water
called -, Grande.
~ ,a- .eAinU an "A QninQf villa nn-
less YOU IRE In right" he warned re-
gretfully upo44 my defamation. as If no
one could be. travelling 10 the border for
other purposes than to- enter into bust
ness relations with one or another OF the
Mexican bandits.
'Pancho and his brother, Hipolito, are
business men and they have the best
legal advice. They are banking their
huge profits In the United States no
longer are they mere jefe politieos' but
they are dons." .
Profits, Surely we in the cafe had
not heard Alright. This could not be the
same Francisco villa who had been pic
tured in the magazine sections OF the
New York Boston and Chicago news
! papers as the courageous and conse-
Grated champion of the submerged 81
per cent" of Mexico. He could not he
| so m%ercenary as to he banking profits ;
the DrOtessed VITA agent ph NV '"''
must be an impostor. There was some
mistake of course.
Real Portrait Of villa.
Accordingly. | appealed to the Judge
in the course OF the afternoon for light
as TO which villa was the actual por-
trait Of the Constitutional leader. He
laughed and said
"Oh, you are thinking of the villa OF
the press stun Sherburne q. Hopkins
and his assistant. FELIX Summerfeld.
get out In the East. Well. young man.
when you get down here in the sage
brush that villa vanis;es and you are
face to face with the raw truth about
| all of these Mexican revolutionists they
| only hght to ravish women and steal
what is loose from the TERRA. and they
know nothing whatever OF the sixth.
seventh or eighth Commandments"
Direct from the train upon arrival in
FL Paso went the American follower OF
''Pancho' to the house OF Hipolito villa,
with its garden Of roses. at 81 Lerdo
avenue, across the international bridge
in the Mexican town OF Juarez. II he
possessed an inner consciousness OF the
part he played In the crime Of "A century
he gave TO us on the train no evidence
whatever OF it's existence. Later on I
frequently met him in the circles of the
elect around the two villas, and ] oh
served that his acquaintance was an as
set in the mods Of approval at our ex-
change OF salutatione,