Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-10


had also made prisoner of the Mex
I lean who had been working on the
| place Az three were tied up. A
I Mexican soldier ordered my husband
not t. talk.
~ said to my husbands J am sure
I they intend to Kill YOU The soldier
told me Ia shut up and my husband
said be thought everything would be
all right II | went into the house. He
said IL was too cold for the baby out
side SO I went into the house but
soon aftorward soldier came In and
said my husband wanted 10 see me.
I when | went out he told me to leave
the baby with the wife Of the Next
can. who had been taken prisoner
1 with hor husband. ! did that. The
soldier and ] went out together where
he told me that my husband was at
the top of a hill "a short distance off.
He told me to mount behind on
his horse, when ] refused he put me
on one OF the pack mules taken from
my husband
II was suspicious and said so. |
Thought they intended TO take me
away but the soldier told me every
thing was all right but ! did not sec
my husband When / called he did
not answer me- then / said l was go
/ ing back TO my baby.
"rho soldier said We have given
your baby 10 a Mexican family That
made me frantic | said. ! am go
Ing right back to my baby lie drew
his sword and declared If | did h
would kill me. ! dsmounted from
the mule, but he forced me back ON
/ II, | knew then | was a prisoner. We
rode all that night aud reached Jimi-
{ nez, whore We made camp for three
hours Three hours was the longest
{ We ever stopped In any twonty-four
I until we reached the Boca Grando
river | saw villa an Jiminez but he
refused to talk to me.
~ am too busy he would always
say. Talk to one of my c0lonelsi
! that is what they are for but they
/ did nothing but laugh az me Through
all the nine days / was a prisoner, !
slept only I'm the saddle or the camp
a little while with my head against
/ "a tree or stump, but the men guard
| ing me treated me well and one of
/ Them told me that Villas men didn't
1 love him but were ruled entirely by
I The fear he had instiled in them.
Nilla was protected from assassius
/ throughout the march by his Officers,
( "a score OF colonies and generals and
/ hv q picked body of men known as
poralos who camped and rode by
themselves
Mrs Wright then told of how the
meat supply and water gave out dur
ing the march uorthward through the
desert region OF chihuahua and how
mou, their tongues swollen, eyes
glazed and absolutely exhausted would
dron from their horses, only to be
beaten with swords hy Villas officers
Wnul they remounted ana again join
ga The column
From the tirst ] knew that villa
intended 10 attack Columbus" Mrs.
Wright continued. 'lt was freely
\ discussed by the men and the
lofncers Some OF the latter told me
that Villa intended go KIN every Amer
lean they could find, hut they pointed
TO me as nn example uf tarir decision
not TO harm women. Bu later as we
approached me Mexican border from
Bom Gmndc these same officers re-
ported 20 mo that villa, his rage grow
ing as he nclrod The boundary had de-
lclarcd THAI hc would make torches of
every woman AND child as Well as
every man n Columbus
Mould lay America Waste.
"He intended. they said. TO lay the
whole United States waste and would
Doe helped by Japan and Germany. AT
lioca Graudc ] saw evidence of their
determination did not see the
/ three American cattlemen named Nc
/ KINNEY, Corhclt and Neil slain but
saw the Officers later wearing their
/ clothins That was after Villa had
sent out twenty men to break up the
laiomns cattle roundup and supply
the hungry column with meat
Z But saw another American killed.
lic appeared u the road just ahead OF
tlse column and squad took out at
ter HIM tie was trampled down BY
the horses Vi "a scurc OF men. Then