Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-18
SUPPOSED BODY OF VILLA
is DELAYED" IN TRANSIT

Ell PASO, Tex, April 18.-Only
Villas head may be brought back for
identification, according to Carranza
Consul Garcia today. He said that
the probably decomposed condition Of
the body, and the fact that the rough
mountain trails were 30 or more miles
from the grave to the, nearest rail-
road, might render removal Of the
corpse difficult. Garcia said he had
no further news regarding the body,
but saw no reason to change his be.
lief that it really was Villas.
Ell PASo. Tex, April 1S-Advices here
state that the body, supposed to be that
of Pancho Villa, was on its way to Chi
huahua City, but owing to the long wagon
road from San Francisco Borjas, where
the grave was found, IL might be tomor-
row before II reached its destination
1t has been suggested that the body
might be that of Pablo Lopez, butcher of
Santa Ysabe officials here are watch
fully waiting"
General Gavira said today he had talked
further with the San Antonio, Chihuahua.
telegrapher. obtaining additional details of
to the operator General Cavazos and Col
onel Carlos Carranza and their troops
were at Cushuiriachc last Saturday when
they received word that detachment of
bandits was operating nearby. They en-
gagged the bandits and captured a number
of prisoners. besides killing or wounding
many others.
Among the prisoners, said the oper.
ator,l was a Villista colonel, who. on be.
Ing informed of his probable execution
begged for his life, and promised IL he
were spared, to reveal the grave of Villa
Cavazos and Carranza were taken then
by the prisoner to San Francisco Barjas
where they were shown a grave from
which the body was then exhumed by
their men. The Villista colonel said his
chief had been dead about two weeks
The confidence of Mexican officials here
and in Juarez that Villa is dead has not
diminished, outwardy at least 1t was
pointed out that If the body had been
brought to Cusihuiriachic 1t might take
the better part of day to transport 1t
from there to Chihuahua City
AMERICAN SAW VILLA.
Charles Rickerson. an American who
owns mining properties in the Guerrero
district, arrived at the border and de-
clared he had seen Villa two weeks ago in
ranch house near Cusihuiriachc Villas
leg was badly swollen, Rickerson said
and he was suffering much. The bullet
had entered the knee through a pair of
soiled trousers. and the native doctor
whom villa had forced to go along with
his band declared the infection had been
injected into the wound from particle
of soiled cloth and had spread through
out Villas body, causing him to have
high fever.
If Villa is dead his body will be buried
In the "Potters Field" of the old municipal
cemetery in Juarez, without honors
priest, flags or firing squad, declares GEN
eral Gavira. The body would be thrown
into the shallow grave, Gavira said, back
of the old church where Villa had his
shooting ground when he ruled Northern
sfexico as a dictator. There, against the
1lood- stained and bullet-pitted adobe wall
filla murdered more than 400. When he
ook Juarez villa shot all the officers
here. Again, when he discovered plot
n his garrison, he marched men out in
Ilatoons to be shot.