Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-03-24
ALMOST ESCAPES
ON VILLAS HORSE
Woman Ready to Mount When
She Is Caught.
HEARS HUSBAND is SLAIN
Mrn- Wright Says Mexican Rebel Chief
Expected Help Of Germany and
Japan In Trouble With the
United States.

N Paso. Tex.-Mrs. Maud Hawk
Wright. the American woman who
rude nine days with the villa troops
prsceding the raid on Columbus. N.
n. learned that her baby, which had
been taken from her and given to
Asxican family. was safe at Pearson,
Msx-. and that her husband had been
xnmrdsrsd by the soldiers a short dis
aancs from their home. Mrs. Wright
arrived In III Paso with Mrs. H. j.
Biocum. wife Of the 18th cavalry com
nnanhcr.
7 want TO 90 TO my baby" Mrs.
wright said. 1T would only take me
ehree days TO walk to Pearson
she was informed that the child
prvbahfy would be brought to Juarez
en the train which is to bring the
Mermon colonists.
etolcaI, She Tells Story.
Dry-eyed and stoical after the terri
he experience In which she had suf-
fnrsd hunger. thirst. exposure. facing
alnost Inevitable death. in addition to
ne sorrow and worry over the loss
- her husband and child, Mrs. Wright
aoaa her story to representative OF
khs Associated Press as though II
w.rs commonplace. She had suffered
- much she apparently had lost all
scnss ef fear. Because she suffered
IN silence, never complaining, and
koading herself aloof from the horde
90 soldiers. fugitives, derelicts and
p.rabonds on the border. she was
called Ia Reyna." queen OF the VII
1Hsfsn. BY the troops. villa had told
.ns ef the officers that he preferred to
Anvs her die Of exhaustion rather than
90 kfii her outright-and because she
proved 10 be able to withstand hard
ships better than his own men he
promised he would release her after
~ had sacked Columbus He also
agreed to give her 800 gold and per-
naff TO travel .unmolested through any
pnrt Of villa territory.
villa Expected German Aid.
villa only talked to me twice." Mrs.
Wright said. II avoided talking with
kim because he would have thought !
admired him and would have forced
me 90 accompany him. He told his
Bficsrs how he would wipe out the
Down Of Columbus and when the Unit
"a States tried to invade the Mexican
asrrftory Germany and Japan would
stsp IN to intervene. villa believed
fhfs nrmly. have overheard him
maks such remarks from time to time.
-
ar1ss are making him believe this or
whcthsr n Is an idea which came to
kam I do not know. But he is con-
WINGED that he will be assisted in the
nxht he has started
How I wanted to escape to tell the
psopis Of Columbus about the attack
Dat I was watched all the time. The
nrst night was allowed to sleep in an
abandoned adobe hut which was pre-
cared for me- About thirty saddles
were piled In front OF the door. The
guards slept with their heads to the
nnor. and their feet to FIRE Just be-
Vpps
Tries 10 Flee on Villas Horse.
= lay down. but not TO sleep. About
msaniEht. heard the snoring of the
Mexican guards. peered through the
spanning of the saddles and spied vii.
aa's charger. a splendid steed. about
my feet from the hut. One by one
rsmoved the saddles and stepped over
ths sleeping forms until reached the
hcp~a
The horse was tangled in his rope
4 began 10 untangle the horse and
then one Of the Mexicans turned over
he saw something was wrong I stood
bnhind the horse. But the horse re
fused 10 stand still and II kept me
busy keeping behind the animal. Final
~ the guard came out to where the
horse was.
~'What are you doing herer aske d
what are you doing here?' he asked.
'Untangling this horse. replied
Then he finished the task ! started.
1onged for a hatpin, a dagger, a pen
knife. anything to kill the man.
could have Not him had | had a gun
nut II could have killed him coult
have escaped. since none of the othe
horses could have overtaken me.
Il returned to the hut From the
nn I was watched constantly. Fo
three days and nights we were withou
IRE IN the frost-covered mountai
country OF northern Chihuahua. Fo
thirty hours we were without watel
But the soldiers often did withou
rather than see my canteen empty.
when we neared Columbus Majo
Nicholas Hernandez, one of the meal
est men ! have ever known, said