New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-18
Their Capture Expect
ed to End Sibley's
Expedition.
TWO WOUNDED
IN SKIRMISH
Mishap to Wagons Leaves
LoOphole for Villas
Men.
By ROBERT Dunn

Ranch Santa Fe del Pine. Goa.
hula, Mexico (by motor to Mara
than. Tex.), May 1.-THE bloodless.
out dramatic rescue of Jesse Deemer.
the American storekeeper, kidnapped
Dy Mexican bandits at Glen Springs.
Tex, effected at dawn here last Sat.
urday by Troops A and B of Lang
horne's Sth Cavalry, and the first set
night of his troops with band of the
Glen Springs outlaws at the Rancho
Castlllon, thirty-fve miles southwest.
last night-the results to date of the
second punitive expedition under
Colonel Sibley-are small measure OF
the difficulties which it has faced and
overcome.
No hardship or strategic achieve
ment of General Pershings force
surpasses either action. And nov.
like it, the activities Of this com.
mand are at standstill-for physi-
cal rather than for political reasons
nearly 100 miles south of the
border from Deemer's store.
A sergeant from Lieutenant s.
W. Cramer's detachment of ten men.
sent last toward Castillon from
: Cerro Blanco, has just reached here
with meagre news of the skirmish.
| am writing in the adobe house
where Deemer and his negro assist
ant, Munroe Payne, were held
prisoners by the bandits.
Next TO me is the windowless prison.
cells Of mud two feet thick, in which
they slept and were continually threat
ened with death. But at this moment
both are standing in the glare Of the
desert sun before the house, chatting
pleasantly with its two dark skinned
tenants. in whose hands they we're left
when the outlaws fed the place the day
before.
Bandits Elude Troopers.
Cramer's detachment was one OF two
, left near Cerro Gordo, twenty-five
miles south OF here, after that ranch
had been surrounded at dawn yester-
day by Major Langhorne's troopers,
/ only to find that the main body OF nifty
I bandits had eluded them by taking the
7 Sierra Mojada trail the afternoon be-
: fore the third disappointment of the
expedition. The band numbered about
a dozen, and had deserted from tho
/ others after a quarrel over woman.
Cramer's men came upon them toward
dusk at q water hole and wounded two
and made them prisoners.
/ But the rescue OF Deemer far over
shadows the above. The breaking down
/ Of a motor truck on the 18th postponed
the attack day, for the horses, after a
march of seyenty-fve miles in less than
a day and a half, without sleep or for
age. and no rations for their riders IN
an almost waterless waste, were unsbls
/ to advance that Friday evening.
! Scouts Locate Prisoners.
took part in the projected sur
rounding Of this ranch the next dawn
SATURDAY. the l3th-and was present
/ AZ Major Langhorne's greeting OF the
prisoners. On the previous day his
/ column OF troopers had intercepted a
native messenger on the way 20 Deem
/ er's store with note from the bandits.
II offered 70 exchange Deemer for
] Lieutenant Colonel Natividsd Alvarez,
who was captured and subsequently
overpowered By the seven men from the
Porto Rico mine at Boquillas, but did
/ not mention his place OF detention.
R This was learned from our scouts, Sam
Harris and Dan CoFmsn, Who we're or
dered 10 prepare a note accepting ths
offer. This, however, was never de-
liyered.
That night AZ Agushits, twenty-five
miles north Of here, Major Lsnghorns
asked me 20 the conference OF his ON
GERS for the daylight attack. In word
and spirit II was like a chapter from
Nick Carter story. Seated under a
mesquite bush on the dark but sun
broiling desert. he detailed no" the
two troops should dismount and sur
round the town, Lying like lizards III
the whistle for opening FIRE was given
The bandits slept behind this house,
which is L-shsped and in the open
under an alamo tree. Certainly they
would have outposts out We must be-
ware OF dogs giving alarm. especially
Of guinea hens. And. Of course, no
cigarettes as We waited.
Deemer slept in the first room on
the right and .ge debated long, I re
member, whether, when he and Payne