The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-17
VILLAS DEAD BODY
 FOUND BY CARRANZA SOLDIERS, IS REPORT
Mexico City Say That Bandit Chief
 Been Dead Two Weeks, Victim of Blood Poisoning -Rumors As Yet Unconf1r1ned, But Are Given Cred
 ence By Authorities Near International Line.

the battle of Guerrero, at which time reports of his being wounded were accepted by General Pershing and other American officers. If he had continued south, as was assumed, he must by this time have reached either Torreon or Durango. City, in which event some news of his movements would almost positively have become known.
 ls Death Attributed to Gangrene.
 Only one message was received in Juarez yesterday giving any details of the supposed finding of Villas body. This message was unofficial and was sent to a private individual. Accord ing to it, Villas death and burial were revealed by Pancho Vargas, Jr., a former colonel of the bandit band, who had been captured and was under sentence of death. It is said Vargas, Cavazos at GuerreGo, offered to show his captors Villas grave in return fer his life. He led a detachment of Car- ranza. soldiers under the command of General Cavazos to San Francisco Borja, a small town 30 miles south of Cusihniriachic, with which, it is con- nected by a vague and deserted trail. |. Near this lonely spot the Carranza soldiers are said to have exhumed the body of the bandit The left leg was said to have been swollen to enormous size, and to be in such a. gangrenous condition that there was no doubt as to the cause of death. There was a. gunshot wound through the left knee, 1 it was said.
 1 Consul Garcia refused to commit himself positive1y<to today as TO whether he accepted the story of Villas death as true.
 Tn the absence of official informa- GG l4F,1 story is absolutely true, but personally consider the messages I have receiv- l ed as re1iable.I have sent a telegram 1 to Governor Enriques of Chihuahua l to have the body of Villa sent to Juar- ez if it has been found, so that the Americans here can satisfy themselves as to the facts.''
 The attitude of American officials and army officers here ranged from frank skeputicisTn to watchful waiting.
 General Bell admitted he was a skep- tic as did Consul Edwards in JuareZ, ! who said he had received a message from Chihuahuas City early today in which no mention of Villa was made. l On the other hand General Gavira and his stan freely accepted the story of ] Villas death as true and expressed the highest qualification over the news
 JubiIatdon in Juarez
 Shortly after the first messa ges were received in Juarez bugles blew a
 triumphant fanfare outside General | Gavira's headquarters, and the roll o1 drums summoned the soldiers to hear | the news. A column of troops was I quickly formed and, headed by the
 buglers, it marched down the sunny
 dusty streets toward the plaza. The l news flashed from one end of Juare7 Eto the other and throngs of civilians l joined the procession in it's triumphal l march.
 The big crowd poured into the plaza | and waited patiently for more than ar
 hour in expectation of one of the fani- | liar proclamahons which follow every important event in a Mexican town
 They dispersed slowly as it became
 evident that no proclamation was forthcoming.