Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-29
THIRTEEN!YEAR-0LD
BOY WITH VILLA IN
RAID ON COLUMBUS
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he "saddled his horse and rode
away after kissing us all goodbye.
They said he had gone to join Villa
for this was the only way he could
J save his life
| Finding the father had disap-
peared the Carrancistas tried TO
| make his 1l-year- old son Jesus tell
where the money was hidden. but
the lad would not tell and they
took him to Chihuahua City where
they put him in a Jail, held him
prisoner, intending to send word
to his father that they would shoot
the boy if he would not tell where
he had hidden his money,
But He Escaped.
One day his guard left the door
of his prison room open and Jesus
walked out to his home to see his
mother. Then he went to find his
father with Villas army.
He found his father with Villa S
staff at San Jeronimo and by force
OF circumstances became one OF
Villas men"
Here he met the bandit leader
for the first time and characteris-
tically, the first conversation con-
sisted of questions by Villa as to
the strength and disposition of the
Carranza troops at Chihuahua City
Learning that the Carrancistas at
Chihuahua numbered about 1000,
Villa remarked. 1--WE will beat
them out of there pretty SOON
With the memory of the murder
of his brothers still fresh in his
mind, Jesus replied to Villa; 81
wish we would start right now
But Villa told him to have pa
thence" and left.
Begins Life as "Outlaw."
"And then" Jesus wrote. ave be-
gan our life as outlaws"
From then until Villa marches
into Monterey with 1000 men,
Jesus was in three battles, At
Monterey for a while things eased
up and the boy writes that there
"he learned to be bad" He had
found companion, Zorro, boy
about Is years old. and they spent
their time in the Monterey pool
halls and to him Jesus lost many
pesos"
OF this he writes. "And once
more | enjoyed a fine time. That
was the only reason / liked to be
with Villa although there was an
other reason-I had to be his SOL
dier.
Then the Villistas were driven
from Monterey and the southern
part of Mexico. "They were de-
feated most of the time" Jesus
wrote, land many of their generals
We're Administering He was COM
PEELED to retreat north with his
troops that were left. He went
back to the state of chihuahua
Villa had lost half of his left army,
many Of his men deserted, others
we're left wounded and others
killed.
1--WE had been fighting all the
way from Monterey to Chihuahua
and had taken part in fifteen bat
ties or skirmishes. Some of Villas
troops were still fighting in the
south, but they were being, defeat
ed as the Carrancistas outnumber- |
ed them. Villa had been the strong |
est general in Mexico in 1913, but !
now he was the weakest and he |
blamed the United States on ac-
count of the United States letting |
the Carranza troops come through |
the United States to attack him
from the north.
He did not keep enough troops
in the north because there was no
way Carranza could attack from
that direction through Mexico. So !
when the first thing he knew Car |
rancistas We're coming down from |
the north through the United States |
Villa got mad at the United States, |
But here jesus story ends. He |
has not written of the Columbus
raid or the fighting there as he
his friend here. In con |
nection with the premises laid !
down by Governor Larra2olo in
his pardon statement, the boys ac- |
count of the raid might make in
If not enlightening read |
ing. And if he would, this young |
might shed some lightupon
the psychology of Villas men.
one might learn from him
whether the Villistas shared the |
hatred of their chief for Americans |
because the government Of the
United States had permitted the
Carrancistas TO enter Mexico |
against villa through the United |
States, and he might know enough |
to make clear the disputed point
as to whether the rank ana file of |
the outlaw army knew they were
headed for Columbus.
And it is a significant fact that
this 13-year- boy had no lofty !
IDEAS concerning the bandit lead
ar. Villa. To. him he was an outlaw |
and nothing more, as the language |
Of his letters to Mr.. Galusha and
his autobiography sufficiently at
best.
In another place he writes of
The March to columbus" and tells
how the march was started several