Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-13
F RUSTRATE PLOT
To A5SAS5|NAT E
MEXICAN CHIEFS
Five Civilians and Two Army
Officers Arrested in Chi
huahua City, Were Lead
erS, 1t Is Claimed.
tBy The Associated Press.)

Ell Paso, Tex. Feb. 12.-Whdt
Mexican officials believe to be a
widespread assassination plot has
been frustrated by the arrest in
chihuahua City of five civilians
and two army officers. According
to the official report of the affair,
received in Juarez today, the in
tended victims of the assascins
were Governor Ignacio Enriquez,
of Chihuahua; General Eugenio
Martinez, commander of the
northern military zone; General
Juan Andrew Almazan, chief of
operations in Chihuahua, and
General Alfredo Quito, commander
of the Chihuahua garrison.
Government agents posing as
revolutionists are given credit for
disclosing the plot. which, officials
claim, is part of a plan to inaugu-
rate a revolt throughout Mexico.
The revolutionary band which
crossed from Texas last Wednes-
day and engaged the federal forces
in battle at Samalayuca thirty miles
below the border, appears to have
! been scattered. General Juan
Merigo, one of the leaders of the
revolt, and two of his followers
were taken into custody today at
Fabens, Tex, thirty miles east of
Ell Paso, shortly after they had
crossed from Mexico. They were
brought to Ell Paso and lodged in
Jail, pending the filing of COM
plants against them by the de-
partment of justice agents.
General j. j. Mendez, command
err Of the Juarez garrison, who in
terviewed Merigo, said the latter
declared he had crossed to the
United States only when he real
lied the rebellious movement had
failed.
Additional details of the Sama-
layuca engagement received today
bring the rebel losses up to five,
one killed and four captured. Ten
of the band continued south and
the remainder fled toward the
American border.
According to the reports of the
Mexican federal authorities every
member Of the band of twenty-five
who entered Mexico Wednesday
was an officer, their plan being to
separate and recruit forces among
the Inhabitants of the mountain
country of western Chihuahua.
r" wing points for the rebel forces
h | been arranged, the reports
said, and large number of men
already had promised to answer to
the CALL
The burning of bridges on the
Mexican Central Thursday, it was
said, was done by 17-year-old
boy, who had been sent out with
instructions to fire the bridges in
the event troops from Juarez start
ed south. While setting fire to the
first bridge a number of track
laborers approached on handcar.
The boy held them off with a rifle
until the bridge was burning freely
and then rode south to the next
bridge. which he fired. A few
hours later federal troops and GUS
tom guards trapped the youth In
a canyon, but he managed to escape
across the border into Texas.
Partisans of the revolution in El
Paso deny the movement is finance
ed by interests in the United
States. Its purpose, they declare,
is to restore the constitution of
1857 and to set up a government
that will command the respect OF
the world by revoking all confis-
catory laws and suppressing radical
tendencies and bolshevism. which
they claim is now rampant in Mex
leo City.