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Mexico City, June i5-One OF the ex-
citing incidents preceding the revolt
against President Carranza was the es-
cape of General Banjamin Hill, chief
lieutenant Of General Alvaro obregon.
who fled from the capital hidden in a
] pile of sacks in a milk wagon.
General Hill vanished from the CAPT.
| tai on the same night as did General
Oregon April t3. The wagon in which
Hill was hidden was stopped By the
police in the suburbs OF the capital
because it did not carry light While
the driver was bribing the policeman
to pass the lightless vehicle, General
Hill dropped out of the back Of the
wagon and hid in the shadow of a
building until the policeman was mol
lifted Then the general crawled back
into the wagon and continued his flight.
Mystery surrounding the fate OF Ro-
berto Cejundo. to testify in whose trial
General Oregon was summoned to the
capital, furnished one Of the tragic Sigh
lights of the Carranza evacuation. With
General Arnulfo Gonzales, captured by
CarranZa COVER ment agents near
Nuevo Laredo on April 30, and the aged
rebel General Gaudencio de la Lave,
Cejudo was taken from the military
prison of Santiago Tlalteloco here the
night OF May when the Carranza adj
herents fled. Whenever he was taken
on the Carranza train the next day
and escaped, or whether he was exc
cuted, together with the two others.
remains mystery. None Of them have
been located although several other
generals, arrested prior to the evacua-
ton, have returned to Mexico City.
Cejudo was arrested, with his staff
and $50 followers. at Jalapa, v. c., on
March %, after he had surrendered,
received amnesty, been given the rank
of general in the Mexican army and
placed in command of district near
Jalapa, where previously he had led a
revolt against the Carranza govern
ment for six years. He was charged
with surrendering merely to secure
arms and munitions with which TO AID
Felix DiaZ.
The Carranza government charged
that he had offered to aid Obregon but
Obregon, in an interview given me
Associated Press, branded the CeJudo
charges as scheme to bring him 10
Mexico City, involve him in charges OF
treason and block his campaign Tor
the presidency.
The progress OF 1BudCio DohAiloo'
formerly Mexican ambassador to the
United States and Carranza's candidate
for the presidency, from the Mexican
embassy in Washington to camp IN
the iungles Of Vera Cruz and back TO
a prison in Mexico City was marked by
stirring episodes. He is reported here
to have figured in a shooting ARRAY
which occurred on March % near Tlal-
pam a suburb of Mexico City, which
the papers supporting his candidacy in
timated was an attempt to kidnap him.
The special train carrying him to
Guadalajara was stopped near the city
by a missing rail. He reached Qua
dalajara safely but the incident was the
basis for numerous alarming reports.
Then came his flight from Mexico City
with Carranza, starting May and
ending in a dash from the beleaguered
trains on May ii.
His food fortune saved him from
death when Carranza was slain in the
camp at TIaxcalantongo and he was
brought here to be imprisoned until the
provisional president decided his fate.