Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-02

feels hungry. He is at times generous
in small way. He talks loudly about
the wrongs of the cientificos, as the
cid Diaz adherents are called
He has a dozen wives" ana has out
ragged thousand girls. Dut these
things do not shock the border Mexi-
can, who has the moral code O, the
cave man-take what you can get
Then. too, Villa in later years had
had the assistance of several shrewd
individuals. some of them Americans.
who have known how to make him an
international reputation Of the most
roseate Clever press agents have
been hired to write and place" we'll
written literature describing Villa $
fight Against oppression and his
Wholehearted struggle for the cause of
the people.
Brigandage Pays Well.
The game has been a paving one for
these gentry Concessions and loot.
Mexico is a rich country
Most of Villas famous messages TO
the American people were written by
these figures in the background Villa
was intelligent enough to realize the
need of this. He was content not to
interfere. Like the rising young act
ress. he cared little how his Useful
reputation WAS made.
So Villa became the friend OF the
Amer cans. He projected them. while
other sof his compatrots Disseminated
against them. It was years before
even WASHINGTON woke up to the true
st"te of affairs.
Then came Villa. great cause Of
grudge against the Americans. He had
consented to the conference OF MeNi-
can chiefs proposed by the United
States. while { arranza had refused.
Despite this, the United States rec
ognized Carranza. President Wilson
went further. He allowed Carranza
to move his troops through American
territory. over American railways in
pursuit of Villa.
70 this and to the American en,-
barge against ammunition to him,
while Carranza was supplied, Villa
laid his downfall and his reduction tn
the fleeing head of small group of
cavalry. Reduced almost to his orig
inal brigandage, he resolved on the
Columbus raid.
His motives are not entirely clear.
Partly it was hatred OF the Americans
because he thought they had betrayed
him. Partly it was a desire to force
American intervention in Mexico and
so embarrass First Chief Carranza.
Was there further incentive? The
effect of the raid really was finally to
sweep all American doubts aside and
Il ,,-l,. l,
professional murderer.
But the border had never been de-
ceived. 1t had known him all along.
His long record Of assassination was
familiar to everyone. Here it is. IS
Villas press agents have spread, far
and wide the tale that he first became
an outlaw through killing an officer
of Diaz who had outraged his sister.
But those who knew Villa in early
life say he never had sister
Son of a Stableman.
Villa is the son of a stableman. He
was born in San Juan del Rio, Duran
go, in 1877, and was working for a
rich landowner when Don Pedro
Sanchez, a commander OF rurales,
bribed him to act as go-between in a
love affair Villa betrayed Sanchez
and took money from the latter's
this received bullet in the back d
few nights later.
For this, his first murder, Villa was
sentenced to DEATH While in jail a
prominent man offered to get him free
if he would kill the guardian of Two
wealthy girls. Villa murdered the
guardian, man named Pantoja, and
escaped to Parnal ~
His next business was stealing cat
tie for butcher named Miguel Baca
Wales. In 1902 Villa shot Wales
partner dead at Wales request. Later
in the same year Villa and a gang
robbed a ranch near Parral, shot the
daughter of Inocente Chavez in the
leg and wounded an employe. ..5
Ambush and Rob Miners.
In January, 1903,. the Villa gang
ambushed three men carrying money
to mine, left one dead and got sway
with the pay roll. Villa continued his
depredations and in May, 1904, de-
scended upon a ranch near Villa
Ocampa, Durango. His gang Sound
the two caqueros of Amaya the owner,
and then continued on to Amaya's
home, on the outskirts of Villa
Ocampa. Amaya's door was opened to
the bandits by young girl, whom
they killed with an axe. Put to flight
by policeman, they returned to the
ranch and beheaded the two vacqueros.
While trying to escape after this
crime, Villa killed a ruralc leader.
One of Villas companions was caught
and told his story. while another was
slain.
For several years Villa was quiet
and then, on September Is, 1908, he
sacked the Rancho del SauCito, and
the next month burned the courthouse
at Vale del Rosario in order to de-
stroy evidence of his cattle thefts.
In the spring Of 1908, the Villa band
beat down two Americans near the
rlant of the Pittsburgh San Jose Re-
duction company's smelter at San jose
del Sitio, Chihuahua, tied their vic
tins and then looted their homes.
In 1910, Villa masqueraded as a cat
tie buyer and was entertained with
six companions by wealthy rancher,
Alexander Munoz, near Minas Nuevas.