Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-21
Reliable, but Unofficial, In
formation Tells of TAX
ing of Bandit.
NUMBER WHO TOOK PART
IN MASSACRE ALSO CAUGHT
El Paso Gets Message That
These Men Are on Way to Chi
huahua to Be Put to Death.
OUTLAWS FOUND IN MOUNTAIN
Malcontcnts, Operating Near Tore
on, Declare All Americans Are
to BE Killed.
Especial to The Timcs-D Dispatch.

Especial to The Times DIspatch.l
Ell PASO, January 20.--General Fran
cisco Villa has been captured. according
TO reports believed to bc authentic.
Advices received by Mexican Consul
Garcia state that tho capture was made
by Maxinno Marquee. "a foreman of the
Hearst ranch. Babricora. and twenty
cowboys fellow employees. Marquee
recently also captured General Jose
Rodriguez. one OF Villas generals.
a band OF forty or nifty men are said
10 have been taken with villa. Con-
hicting dispatches have arrived as TO,
tho disposition made Of the prisoners.
a telegram from Albert II. Dawson, a
prominent broker AT chihuahua City.
says:
"CRrranza officials declared reported
capture Of Villa near san Geronimo
absolutely confirmed They say v:lla
will be brought alive TO Chihuahua. His
band of nifty men executed this after,
noon Immediately after capture"
y personal telegram received al
o'clock this afternoon by General Car
cin, commander OF tho juarcz garrison.
from chihuahua. reads:
General Francisco Villa the bandit;
i. a prisoncr. He was captured this
afternoon at san Geronimo BY Colonel
Marquee. General Trcvino has in
structed Marquee 10 bring Villa 10 Chi
huainia at once"
message announcing Villas can
'urc also has boon received nt the Of
hce Of the American Smelling and Re
nninE Company.
Messages from. chihuahGa City. CON
nrmins reports cf the capture OF Villa.
stated that number Of nandits who
participated III the Santa YSabcl mas
aacrc, were MS" captured aud are being
brought TO chihuahua city for cxccu-
tinn
.I,Es niGu RANK
TO VILLAS CirTon
Consul Garcia. after declaring that
villas capture had been confirmed by
unofficial but reliable adviccs, said that
General Iaclnto Trcvino immediately
made Marquee bsigad!cr general IN the
Carranza army FOR having ended the
Mex ican revolution
carrauza Consul Garcia cXplminet
that his continuation of the report OF
tho capture OF villa was based IN an
Official, but rcliabic iar"r,uatiun lie
t.legrnphed At once !" Chihuahua City
asking Immediate Official information
from General Jacin;o rrcvino. the mill.
tary chief OF the northern states
~ the sam. time, message was
prepared TO he hicd, in tho even. Of
formal confirmation. requesting ,ha,
Villa hc sent 10 Juarcz 70 a.. executed
at the race track. This message was
written At the office Of General Gabriel
Gavira. comtnandant at .Tnarc2 who
said he had received nothing official
concerning tho capture OF tho outlaw
chieftain.
Marquee reported his capture nrst 70
General Trevino, commanding tho
northern forces. General Garcia, com
nanding the Juarcz garrison. received
dispatch at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon announcing that Villa was n
/ prisoner.
= Colonel Garcia gave out tho following
statement this evening:
Up until I. NJ. nothing has been
learned regarding tho capture of
Bandit Leader Francisco Villa Ad-
vices from chihuahua declared he was
captured by Colonel Marquee"
Hacienda S7s ioronimo where VILLA
was reported 60 havo been made a
prisoner. issi small village on the bor-
der of tho Hearst Babricora Ranch
American cowboys on Babricora
Ranch saw the bandit in the vicinity
of San Geronimo few days ago He
had about 20 men, as nearly as they
could esti, Ute.
MARQUEE on CLOSE
WATCH FOR BANDIT
The few positively dependable de-
tails of the incident at hand indicate
that Marquee has been keeping n close
watch for the appearance of Villa and
his band Yesterday he learned that
| the bandit with part of his force was
on his way to the Santa Anna Hacienda.
ono OF the Hearst properties. with the
object o. seizing food, cattle and other
! supplies.
one report says Marquee was In COM
| mard OF force of twenty American
cowboys. Villa was located in n
S in tho mountains. Marquee
ed from the southwest point
ianGle.
IL Jose Alexandra was closing
- the northwest. From the
pat General Cavazos advanced
are hints that Villas force ran
o ammunition. Among the prison
., ken with Villa, according to a
di ch from Chihuahua City. Is Pablo
Id one OF the bandit leaders in
| dii 4 charge of the Santa Ysahcl
| massacre.
This same message gives the number
of prisoners taken with villa as six
teen, all of whom were shot imme-
diately.
MALGONTENTS THREATEN
To KILL AMERICANS
Ell PASo. TEXAS. January 20
/. Aho,t 4 oo0 malcontents nre onarotino-