Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-06-29 | Page 10 | Saves Her Babies from the Bandits

SAVES IE BABIES FROM THE BANDITS By International News Service. EL PASO, June 28. An American mother with her four babies alone fought her wav through a band of Mexican bandits to safety north of the border. The desperadoes took the woman's children from her and threatened threat-ened to kill them before her very eyes. The fact that bho laughed at their threats saved their lives and her own. Thev robbed her of gold and jewel aggregating more than $1000, and dashed into the mountains. Mrs. William Wil-liam G. Hoyt is the woman. She is the wife of a wealthy ranchman liviijg fifteen fif-teen miles south of Canane; She arrived ar-rived in El Paso with her four children today, en route to hervpaients ' home at Horton, Ivan. Here is her thrilling story: ' ' Five American families around Cnnanea have been reported killed by Mexicans recently, ' ' she said. ' ' My husband was away and I deemed it .best to go to the border. The Honora railroad is in the hands of Mexicans, whom I feared, so I started out in an automobile with my children. The route I chose avoided' Cananea, which is filled with extremely hostile Carranzis-tas, Carranzis-tas, but followed the raiiroad. ''Within about ten miles of Douglas, on the Mexican side, the bandit s loomed up suddenly out of the sand hills and surrounded us. ' ' ' Quie tiene, ' they shouted (what have you got?) I put on full speed, but. nil oy closed in on me and snatched Juanita my little girl, out of the ton-neau. ton-neau. I stopped. They grabbed up the other three children. They held them up before me with knives at their throats. "I felt like screaming, but had 1 done so they would have killed them and me sure. That's the Mexican Mexi-can nature. I steeled my heart and laughed at them. They sea relied the car and took my diamonds and money. They gave me $0 in Villa paper currency cur-rency in exchange, telling me it would be-good some day, then galloped away. Fortunately they'overlooked the baby's bank, which contained $10. It was with ; this we came on to El Paso from Doug- : las. ' ''People in the I.nited States can t understand the terrible persecution Americans are undergoing at the hand- of Mexicans in Sonora. If they did j the troops would be sent in to protect i them."