Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-25
BANDIT Chief SLAIN,
TROOPS END PURSUIT
United States Cavalry Re-
crosses Border After Rain
storms Wipe Out Trails
BITTER FEELING IN MEXICO

Maria Tex, Aug. 2O.-lhree nun
dred and seventy FIVE American caval-
rymen, who last Tuesday entered Mex :
ico In pursuit of the bandits who neld
I,ieutenants Harold G. Peterson ana
Paul N. Davis for ransom, were back
an American soil today following aban =
donment of the chase yesterday Inc
troops resumed patrol Of the border.
Major James =. YanCey, commander
Of the expedition, told the Associated
Press over the army field telephone at
Ruidosa today that he considered inc
report authentic that Jesus Renteria,
bandit leader, had been shot and killed
from an American airplane last
Tuesday.
The bandit was slain at Carrizozo
Springs, forty miles south of Candle
laria.
''we got what we believed to be
confirmation of the reports of the Kill
ing of Jesus Renteria by Lieutenant
r. IT. Cooper" Major Yancey said.
"Mexicans on the trail told MS of the
report and others near Coyame con
frmed it.
First reports Of the Killing of Rem
teria were brought to the border last
night by Lieutenant Harold G. Peter
son, one of the American aviatOrs held
by the bandit for ransom.
Major Yancey also confirmed the
statement made by Lieutenant Peterson
that a night patrol of American troops
caused upon a large patrol of Car
rama troops near Coyame Saturday
night while pursuing Apolino Renteria,
brother of the bandit leader, and the
pursuit was abandoned. The Ameri-
can patrol returned to the camp of the
expeditionary troops for conference.
At this conference Major Nancey said
decision was reached to withdraw
Sunday, as the Americans had been
unable to locate the hot trail, due to
heavy rains.
Troops Recross Border
The troops, after riding for hours in
heavy rainstorm, began at II o'clock
% cross the river at Rocky Ford, seven
miles from Ruidosa The main column
was delayed for two hours because of
the storm.
The cavalry troops came out OF
Mexico in excellent condition and with :
out casualties, after five days of hard
riding.
Ranchers and Texas Rangers from
settlements along the Rio Grande ar
irving here today reported much i'll
feeling among the civilian populations
ef small towns across the Rio Grande
rknHa arrt,.olS oil tha soarpb for thf
bandits and military operations il
Mexico had intensified the bitter feeling
which many natives on the Mexican
side of the river. who are in sympath;
with bandits, have had for many years
Further depredations are feared b.
American ranchers, although borde
Ilatrols have been strengthened alon
the Rio Grandc in this district.
Nine Bandits Captured
During the six days the American
punitive expedition was below the Dor
der, four bandits were killed by th'
troops and another by airmCn, whil
nine bandits are reported to have beer
captured at Coyame by Carranza sol
diers. The captured bandits are said t,
have been members of tn" Renteri
band, which captured Lieutenant
Peterson and Davis.
Lieutenants George X. Rice and L
l.. Boquet, American army aviators
who were reported missing below tn
|, Rio Grande yesterday, after they ha
fleft Royce field for Mexico to reconnoi
ter foR the punitive expedition, were 10
Gated last night at Terlinqu, Tex. The
had become lost in the rainstorm an
made a forced landing. Neither file
wss injured