The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1919-11-27
VILLA TO REVENGE
ANGELES DEATH?
(By Associated Press)

Ell PASO, Texas. Nov. 27-Persist.
ent rumors Of the Matching Of a plot
by villa elements in the state OF Chr
huahua, following the execution OF
General Felice Angeles. noted rebel
leader. at Chihuahua City yesterday.
reached the border today.
Everyone connected with the trial
Of the Villa chieftain has been marked
for vengeance, according to the re-
ports. Francisco villa, the ally Of
Angeles, plans to start Immediately
upon his campaign OF replisal, Chi
huahua City being his objective point,
it is said.
Reports Of disorders in Chihuahua
City have reached here. but Andres
Garcia, Mexican consul general here
said he had heard nothing OF any out
breaks at the capital.
Meanwhile. preparations were be-
ing made at the garrison in Juarez,
Mex, to prevent any disorders on the
border.
JuareZ police have orders to keep
strict watch on all suspicious charac-
ters, and a strong patrol was main
tanned ON the streets.
Wanted Union.
| In his testimony before the mill
tary board by which he was tried, Cen
eral Angeles repeatedly denied that
he had taken arms against the Car
rama government but asserted that
he returned to Mexico merely to effect
union of all elements, according to
detailed story Of the trial. published
by Ell Heraldo. of Chihuahua City.
General Angeles bitterly attacked
what he termed "the strong passions"
of the Mexican people
ITO correct these erors. I exposed
my life," said Angeles. Despite my
previous relations with Villa, it was
dangerous for me to treat with him
for he made use Of threats when l
made bold to contradict him.
I'VE held our first argument in
Tosesigua, because he called Madero
fool. / retorted something and our
voices rose to shouts. Villas soldiers
expected that he would order me
hanged, as he had done to all those
who contradicted him. Att rwards.
when he had calmed down, Villa told
me that I was the first man that had
contradicted him and escaped alive
This confirmed in me the belief that
Villa would have been a good man
had it not been for despots and syco-
phants."
Viila-Jean Vaijean
In the course of his lengthy address
to the court, Angeles spoke Of Victor
Hugo's Les Miserables, comparing
Francisco Villa with Jean Vatican
Suddenly the prisoner raised his
voice and shouted:
Those who accuse me and those
who arrest me are Villistas. The
masters should be the people. who
should govern themselves, who should
cease being servile, for they are
great"
From the balcony of the large the
atre in which the trial was held there
came such a storm Of applause that
General Gabriel Gavira, the presiding
officer of the military board. warned
the auditors that such demonstrations
were prohibited.
After vigorously denying that he
had resisted the efforts of the state
guardsmen to capture him, Angeles
launched forth into a discussion of
socialism and quoted words Of Jesus
Christ. and the works Of Theodore
Roosevelt and the Austrian Socialist,
kaussaky.
| NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-Mrs- Felipe
Angeles, wife Of the Mexican revolu-
tionary leader, was still in ignorance
today Of his execution. Mrs. Carmen
Delarosa, her sister, declared that she
| had been SO Ill that even the news OF
his arrest by the Carranza forces had
been withheld.
Alberto. the generals 20-year-old son
today made public a telegram from
his father, dated Tuesday afternoon.
It read:
| Let the family know that l am
serene and contented. hope that you
will be good man, a patriot and a
hard worker. I want you to love your
mother, sister and brothers very
much. Kisses and embraces.
FELIPE ANGELES"
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