Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15

and, what is more important, when to
away. If the general is still in
circulation as this is printed he will largely owe
his liberty to the discretion that is the better
part of valor.
For it is better to be in Canada playing a
neat game Of hide-and-Seek with people who
want to annoy you by court procedures Of
various kinds than it is to stand in front of a
wall and look briefly into the business end Of
o lot OF army rifles. Especially if your beautiful
wife comes all the way from Texas to make
your exile more endurable.
Gen. Escobar has had a remarkable cereer.
even for a Mexican general. He was one Of
President Gales best officers and helped sup
press the revolution of 1927 with considerable
severity and equal military ability. He rode
proudly through Mexico City in triumph on a
white horse when he returned with his troops.
Gales rewarded him with higher command,
but in 1929 Escobar himself tried his hand at
revolution. His revolt after initial successes
Topped. and Escobar got over the border into
the United States just two jumps ahead of
the federal troops, clad in poems more or less
white shirt For he knew that the only style
of entry into the Mexican capital open to him
then would be on shutter, horizontally.
GO the dashing Gen. Escobar passed from the
- Mexican scene But not long afterward
there were rumors that he had been seen in
California in Michigan, and finally in Montreal,
Canada.
The report from Montreal became more and
more definite, and finally it learned that
the Mexican general was living in Montreal
under the name Of ]. Deras in a house in Prince
Arthur street. The magnificent and defiant
mustachios which had given him such fierce
look and made him considerable of lion in
society were gone, sacrificed in the interest of
anonymity.
The general living quietly not to say
retiringly, as befitted gentlemen of means.
for President Gales maintained that EScobar
took a little matter of half million dollars
with him when he beat the firing squad to the
border.
Escobar's recognition in Montreal was the
signal for the beginning of a new series of
adventures Attorneys were hot on the trail of
the redoubtable revolutionary leader. They
wanted to find him and formally notify him
that his wife had filed suit for annument
Of their marriage, which took place in 1924 at
Las Cruces, N Mex.
The wife was formerly Conception Goeldner
winner of Texas beauty contests and member
Of German family Of the diplomatic set
With her attorney, the last Mrs. Escobar her
self Jared forth for Montreal, having first seen
to it that writs Of attachment were issued TO
prevent the general from withdrawing some
5000 900 from four Montreal banks where 1t
supposed his revolutionary loot was cached
The grounds cited for annulment were that
the general still married to Elsa Wales
when he married Fraulein Goeldner
She was accompanied on her mission by her
brother Franz Goeldner, and her attorney
C. E. Vowel Of FL Paso. They located the
general, who joined them train
Montreal.
But apparently the old Escobar charm
still there despite the absent mustachos for
suddenly Vowel realized that the whole party
had disappeared-slpped of the train at a
junction-vamoosed. Later call TO EScobar's
attorney indicated that the ex-general and his
beautiful wife had become reconciled.
VOWEL, however, was less easily reconciled
y He swore out warrant for the arrest of
the Mexican leader, charging that he had OBJ
tanned $4,000 in money and goods under false
pretenses from an FL PaSo firm when he was
floating his revolution. The Canadian authori-
ties and police, famous for their aversion to
being reconciled went after Escobar and got
their man.
Suddenly the man who got away from the
Mexican army found himself In the tRilhouSe