El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-10
ASCRUCES MAN
A VILLA VICTIM
Ell Paso Militiaman and U.
S. Doctor Also Killed
in Raid.

had been member of the Oklahoma
national guard. He had no family that
was known here. He was tattoo artist
on San Jacinto street. j. w. Peak tele-
graphed that the body would arrive
here this afternoon and would be buried
here.
Local CattIeman's Escape.
s j. Burchfield. a cattleman from FL
Paso, was guest at the Commercial
hotel when it was raided and burned.
The MeXicans robbed him Of $3.50, bis
watch and jewelry but while they quar-
relied over the division of the booty,
Burchfield escaped
Mrs. Lee Riggs was barrlcaded IN
her home adjoining the customs house
during the fighting with her children,
baby's crying and thus betraying their
presence to the bandits, Mrs. Riggs
stuffed a pillow case in the mouth of
the baby. Mr. and Mrs. Riggs
formerly lived in lei Paso.
Knew James.
Milton James. who was wounded at
the pump mouse in Columbus at the
same time his wife was killed by the
villa bandits. was well known in FL
Paso. Justice J. NJ. Deaver knew him
when they lived III Red River county
Texas.
Identified by JawbOne.
charred jaw bone and part OF the
back bone was all that was found Of
what was the body OF DR.. Harry NJ
Hart. Friday morning in the ruins of
the Commercial hotel at Columbus
That the fragments were part Of the
body OF DR.. Hart is established by the
fact that he had the room where the
bones were found News to this effect
was received at the El PasO custom
house headquarters Friday morning.
DR.. Hart was a L. S. cattle inspector.
DR.. James c. Reid, of the department
Of animal industry I'm El Paso, was
sent to the scene of the tragedy by the
head of the department, DR.. Thomas
Bray Thursday afternoon.
At midnight he wired DIT. Bray:
Hart undoubtedly dead. Went to no
tel that was burned Bodies still in
ruins Hotel still burning this morn
ing at 1929"
Was in Douglas.
DR.. Hart is a native OF Columbus
Ohio, where he has a father, mother
and sister; also a married sister in
Oklahoma City. Mrs. J. W. ChOate,
He has been in the service Of
the department OF agriculture for
eight years, working in CalifOr-
mia, Kansas, Oklahoma City and the
southwest Five years OF the eight
were spent in Douglas, Ariz., and al
most for a year he has been working
out Of Ell Paso. He was a member of
the Douglas lodge Of Elks
To Inspect Cattle.
He was called to Columbus on
Thursday to make inspection Of cat
tie that Cruz Gonzales was bringing
out of Mexico at thai border point He
left FL PasO at 7:45 o'clock and ar
rived in Columbus at 11:47, going to the
Commercial hotel, instead Of the HOov-
er hotel where ne usually roomed when
in the border town.
He had on him at the time a gold
watch. a diamond ring and some mon
ey, which. it is thought, was stolen by
the bandits. If Hart is identified, it
viii be by several keys that he had
on a key ring. He was a man in his
! 3znd year
DIT. Reid is i'm Columbus with a view
to arranging for the shipment Of the
remains 10 FL Paso; also to make a
government report upon the killing.
cattle Buyer Kidnapped.
Jose Pereyra, a cattle buyer Of FL
Paso. who was at the Commercial hO-
tel in Columbus at the time Of the
Villa raid. is reported to have been
taken prisoner by Villa and carried
away. He is a nephew of Gen. Orestes
Pereyra, a Villista general who fought
for villa throughout the campaign in
Sinaloa and lost his life during an en-
gagement between the Nillista and
Carranza forces.
II. y. Gray, of FL Paso, who was To
have gone to Columbus Monday wa
unable to 90 because Of an accident
when his automobile overturned on the
way from Ojinaga and his shoulder dis
located This prevented him from go
ing to Columbus and probably saved
his life as he would have been guest
at the hotel there.
Carranza Agent safe.
Manuel Pereyrs, an agent Of the Car
rama consulate in Ell Paso, who was
thought to have been lost in the Com
merciai hotel fire, has been located
and was not wounded during the fight
ing in Columbus.
Joe Ellis Here.
Considerable uneasiness was felt by
the friends Of Joe Ellis. well known
local auto mechanic who is employed
at Londener Quick sales company
when II was reported that an uniden-
titled Fl Paso chauffeur had been killed
at Columbus. Ellis bad gone up there
to deliver a car on wednesday ana ms
friends feared that he had been
trapped I'm one Of the hotels. Ellis
however phoned his employers late on