Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-19
NINETY WLL|STAS 1
RELEASEDBY ARMY
Had Been Captured by Amerl-
can Cavalry in 0jo
AzuIes Fight.
CAPTIVES QUESTIONED '
IN VAIN BY TROOPERS
Mexican Poems Suspected of Poison.
ing Food After Soldiers at Co.
lonia Dublan Become III.

COLUMBUS. y. NJ. May 1s.-Ninety
Villa prisoners. captured by American
cavalrymen in the engagement at ojo
Azules, Chihuahua. late in April, have
been released. according to civilians re-
turning to the border today.
The prisoners were held some days
and questioned in an attempt TO obtain
information concerning the movements
of the various scattered bands and then
released. it was said. At military head
quarters here the reports concerning
the release were received with some
surprise. although a number of prison.
ers have been captured during the cam
paign and six of them have been inn
prisoned in the stockade built here.
Soldiers Poisoned at Colonia Dublan.
A number of American soldiers en-
between Colonia Dublan and
Namiquipa recently became i'll after
eating food purchased from Mexicans.
and as a result several of the natives
were taken into. custody today. the ar
rivals said. Military authorities have
taken steps to prevent repetition of
the danger.
Heavy traffic over the motor truck
trail from Columbus to Namiquipa has
made it almost impossible. truckmen
said In some places the road. despite
efforts of the engineering corps. has
become so rutted as to make impossible
a greater speed than three miles an
hour.
Some of the truckmen reported to the
hospital upon their arrival, suffering
from illness, presumably caused by the
heavy joltinE.
Executions of Mexican Bandits.
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. May 1s.--The
first legal executions in payment of the
penalty for American lives lost in Dor
der raids by Mexican bandits last sum-
mer and fall were to take place here
today with the hanging of Melquaides
Chapa and Jose Buenrostro. aged TWEEN
ty-three and twenty-five. respectively.
with the killing of A. L. Austin and his
son Charles, following a raid on Sc
Cameron county. August ..
1915 Announcement by Gov. ferguson
at Austin last night that he would not
int erfere with the hangings made exc
cution of the death penalty almost GER
ia in.
Austin and his son were shot to
death when band of fourteen Next
,ans raided the little town of Sebas-
liam last August 6. The two Ameri-
cans were captured by the raiders.
carried a short distance from the town
and killed. All the raiders except
and Chapa escaped. EVIL
lence submitted at the trial last Aprii
ended to show that Buenrostro fired
the fatal shots. while Chapa stood
guard nearby. Three American VII
,esses, whose lives were spared by
he bandits, gave the principal testi-
nony No exact hour has been set Tor
he executions.
Large Force Near q. S. Camp.
MARATHON. Tex. May 1s.-Rosalia
with three hundred armed
followers, is camping at Rancho de
Encillas, 165 miles south of the bor-
Ter, forty miles south of where the
second American expeditionary force I'M
der Col Sibley camped yesterday. Ac-
cording to reports today. Hernandez has
4 total of 500 men in the immediate vi
entity of his headquarters.
Hernandez, it Is reported, does not
subject himself or his followers to the
iictums of either Carranza or Villa 1t
S not positively known whether the Glenn
springs and BaquillaS raiders were con-
lected with his band, but it is said that
pc made no effort to apprehend them
lpon their reterat through his lines
1t was said today that Col Sibley's
column is expected to reach
3oquillas late Saturday unless advised
o remain on Mexican soil or is reinforced
With more cavalry. Maj. Langhorne, with
he Sth Cavalry, is trailing behind Col.
sibey, and may not reach the border until
ate Sunday or Monday.
Cowboys Rout Bandit Band.
FIELD HEADQUARTERS. NEAR
Columbus. N. Mex.-Twenty-fi Mexican
owl boys from the Hearst ranch at Babi-
ora broke and scattered a newly formed
,and of bandits near MADEIRA. about a
week ago, killing fifteen, wounding one
md capturing six. according to news
eaching here today.
The band had been organized by Ate
.utro Dominguez and Pedro Castillo.
who announced their enmity for Amer
cans and Carranza followers. After
he theft of a number of horses from
he Hearst ranch the bandits began
guerrilla warfare.
Employees of the ranch surprised the
bandits in camp near the ranch Viejo.
The six taken prisoner were delivered
o CarranZa authorities in MADEIRA
Among the dead were Dominguez and
the toll bringing the number
II Villa bandits slain up to nearly 2a0
nce the American punitive expedition
vas sent across the border nine weeks
go. The cowboys captured thirty
Iorses, number of rifles and other
'ooty.