The Topeka state journal., 1916-07-18
Mexican Start Miniature ReyO-
luton at Penitentiary.
Man Who Shot Alba of Topeka
Was the Victor.
sHARPENED TOOLS FOR DAYS
Finally, Admirers of Villa and
Carranza CIashed.
Francisco Navarro From a
Family of Fighters.

Francisco Navarrez, the only Mexi-
can to whom Augustin Alba, plain
clothes man, takes off his hat, the
man who shot Alba over a year ago
and who denied that Alba was the
best man after Alba had plugged him
with six bullet holes, started a Mexi-
can revolution of his own at the state
penitentiary Sunday.
Navarro is an ardent follower of
Carranza. Arturio Olivares. another
Mexican prisoner, is just as enthusiast
tic for Villa. Arguments convinced
neither. They have bee nargu.Es
with many gestures for a long time.
Meanwhile, Navarro has been honing
up an old case knife to a razor edge.
Olivares suspected Navarro of some
such intent, but could not lay hands
do was to ssteal an awl from the
shops. But he sharpened that awl
until the point resembled a cambria
needle. Each spent his idle moments
(, bringing his weapon up to the Mexican
standard of efficiency.
Viva villa!
, Sunday evening the Mexican argu-
ment started again. Navarro express
ed in a more or less fluent mixture of
Mexican and English his firm belief
in the great Carranza and in excited
sentences interIarded with Mexican
"cuss'' words, his lack of regard for
one Villa.
Then Olivares took his turn He
| almost choked before he had a chance
to talk. With explosive Mexican-Eng
igh he characterized CarranZa as
mercenary, greedy bandit and praised
Villa as the true, original blown-in-
the-bottle patroit
viva Carranza,' shout Navarro.
Came Together.
i (Sa
MIA came back Olivares.
That ended the verbal argument.
Out came the carefully nursed case
knife and the whetted awl. Before
anyone could interfere blow after blow
was exchangd. Navarro, with his
guard, and slashed Olivares in the
neck. Olivares could only scratch
Navarro now and then.
| When guards separated them, Oil
wares was the only one who had been
| damaged. He bled profusely and col
| lapsed before he could be taken to
| the hospital.
| Il give that fellow credit for being
a fighter with nerve" said Alba today.
I knew his father and his brother.
| The father killed many people and got
away with it. No one in all Mexico
was quicker on the trigger. The way
| they finally got him was to get him
drunk then have three men rush him.
| navarro DrOthSr was Killed the
same way. Navarro is only a young
fellow, about 22, but he put up the
| best fight l ever met up with. He and
| fought in a room with the doors
shut, with the stove the floor, table
overturned and chairs IN the way, for
/ half an hour Before ] had a chance
at him he shot me in the abdomen.
| didn't have a chance then to get my
gun, but L caught hold of his. He
| shot at me three more times before
l got it away from him but the bull
lets went through my clothes. Then
he camc at me with a knife. 1 shot
him twice through the chest with his
own gun and asked him to give up.
He came at me again. 1 shot him
then with my own gun four times be-
fore he finally fell.
! Then 1 called Officer Brush. Brush
looked him over, and remarked that
he was dead. You're a - liar,
said Navarro. trying to get up. And
that fellow, with SIX bullet wounds got
well. He never did admit 1 was the
better man.
Navarro is now serving time for at
| tempting to kill Alba. He went up
about a year ago and has a term of
from five to ten wears to serve