New Britain herald., 1916-03-11
To Charge Captives With Murder.

TO Charge Captives With Murder.
 Columbus, N. M, March 11.-Seven wounded Villa soldiers captured by Col. H. J. Slocum's troopers of the Thirteenth United States Cavalry i'll Thursdays battle here will bo charged with murder for the killing of the seven American soldiers slain in the fight according to an announce ment today by F. B. Stone, special agent of the department of justice. The prisoners include boy twelve years old and two officers,
 Stone said he would confer today with Summers Burknart, U. S. dis trict attorney of New Mexico, and that the charges probably would name ! Francisco Villa, who led the raid on Columbus.
 Stone added it was probable that similar charges of murder would be filed against the prisoners in the state courts of New Mexico in connec
 tion with the killing of nine civilians by the bandit raiders.
 Villa Spy Arrested.
 Pablo Sanchez arrested with sig mailing MeXicanS across the border, yesterday, and held as a spy, will be charged with aiding an enemy while on the soil of the United States. Tho murder charges against the Villa sol diers, Stone declared, would lie be- cause the raid was carried out, not by recognized belligerents, but by ban dits whose leader was a man who had been. prescribed by the de facto gov ernment of a country with which the United States was not at war.
 The men against whom the murder charges are to be filed are:
 Pablo Garcia, a captain who has fought in Villas army for three years; Lieutenant Yzabel Chavez, with two years service under the insurgent chief Leno Ruiz; Juan Sanchez, Elias Meras, and Antonio Morandas, pri- yates. The boy is Jesus Raves, who. with his father, Ausleto Raves, joined Villa three months ago in Chihuahua.
 The death of Jesse D., Taylor, a wounded American soldier, yesterday at Fort Bliss, will be the basis for the eighth charge of murder against The prisoners, who are all so badly wounded that a United States com missioner probably will be summoned from Deming or Albuquerque to ar raign them as they lie in hospital tent in the cavalry camp here.
 Spare No American, Villas Advice.
 Stone declared the cases against the prisoners had been rendered particu- larly strong by the fact that evidence had been found. including papers taken from Villas official correspon- dence which was picked up on the battlefield, to show that while Villa was approaching to make the raid on Columbus he addressed his troops, telling them to spare no American, | to burn and loot the town and to make | human torches of every man, woman : and child"
 Sanchez was picked up with nftonn ! other MeXicans yesterday by cavalry 1 patrols. Fourteen were released, some being ordered across the border as suspicious chara cters. Sanchez claimed to be a rancher, but Ameii- can soldiers made affldavits tl'at he was signalling across the border. When he was searched a pair Of field glasses were found under his blue jumper. The removal of his overalls revealed a well-made gray military 
 Eighteen mounted Mexicans are re- ported having raided the home of IT. A. Blankenship, a section foreman at eighteen miles east of Co umbus The family, including two crawled to cover in the dark ness and hid in the brush most of the old night. The raiders are said to have passed south into Mexico.
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