Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1916-03-10

and do the best we could. Servants
became impatient and demanded to
see our stores of flour and meal. As
soon as I opened the store room he
cur supplies. Then they called my
husband outside. The next l saw of
him his hands had been tied behind
his back. My husband called to Hay
den and he also was tied. Then
went with my baby in nv arms to
Servantes and told him that he had
eaten our food, taken all Of our flour
and meal, leaving US nothing and that
1 did not think 1t was just to make
a prisoner of my husband Mean
while the soldiers, evidently at Ser
vantes' order, began stripping the
house of everything. They took thir-
| teen horses and every other animal on
the ranch. I protested again and Ser
vantes said he would order the flour
! to be returned hut the man to whom
Husband Tied to the Gate.
MY husband was taken out to the
! gate of the ranch yard and tied there
with Hayden / went out with the
! baby to see him and saw that they
] had also made a prisoner of the Next
: can who had been working about the
| place. A Mexican soldier ordered my
/ husband not to talk. l said to my
husband: I am sure thev intend 10
kill you The soldier told me TO shut
| up and my husband said he thought
! everything would be all right II I went
| into the house. He said IL was too
cold for the baby outside. 1 went in
! to the house but soon afterward a
/ soldier came in and said my husband
| wanted to see me. When went out
| he told me to leave the baby with the
| wife of the Mexican who had also
| been taken prisoner. I did that The
soldier and l went out together after
10 mo haN
the top of hill short distance away.
Placed on a Pack Mule.
The soldier told me to mount be-
he put me on one Of the pack mules
| taken from my husband. ! was sus-
| picious and said so. I did not see nv
husband. When I called he did not
answer, then I said: I am going back
to my baby
| 1.-The soldier replied: We have
| given your baby to a Mexican family.
! That made me frantic and I cried: 4
| am going back to my baby whereupon
the soldier drew his sword and de-
clared that If did he would kill me.
l dismounted from the mule but he
! forced me back and 1 knew then ]
was prisoner.
Rode All Night.
We rode all that night and reached
| Jiminez, where we made camp for
/ three hours. Three hours was the
longest we ever stopped in any TWEEN
| ty-tour until We reached the Boca
Grande river.
Villa Refused to Talk With Her.
Il saw Villa at Jiminez but he re-
he would always say. Talk to one OF
| my colonels-that is what they are
for Throughout all the nine days ]
was prisoner slept only in the sad
die or the camp a little while with
| my head against a tree, or stump. The
men guarding me treated me well and
one Of them told me that Villas men
| did not love him but were ruled en-
tirely by the fear he had instilled in
them. Villa was protected from as
| ofncerS-a score of colonies and gen.
| grassland by picked body OF mer
| known as 'dorados' who camped and
rode by themselves
Meat and Water Gave Out.
Mrs. Wright then told OF how the
| meat supply and water gave out dur
ing the march northward through the
desert region Of Chihuahua and how
men, thoroughly exhausted, would
1 drop from their horses. only to bC
beaten and prodded with swords by
| Villas officers until they re-mounteC
again and Joined the column.
Knew of Intended Attack.
From the first I knew that Wills
intended to attack Columbus" Mrs
Wright continued. Tt was freely dis.
cussed by the men and the officers
Some of the latter told me that Wills
intended to kill every American they
could IND, but they pointed out to M
as an example of their decision not e
harm women. Later as we approach
ed the border from Boca Grande, tht
same officers told me that Villa-hi.
rage growing as he neared the bound
ary-would make torches of ever
woman ana child as well as OF ever
man in Columbus.
To Kill Everybody In United States.
HE intended they said, to xii
everybody in the United States ant
would be helped by Japan and Ger
many At Boca Grande 1 saw evi
dence Of their determination. I die
not see the three American cowboy
named Mckinney, Corbett and O'Neil
slain, but 1 saw officers wearing thei