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Show GARCIA FAILS TU IT DEATH WITHOUT FEAR Denies That He Is a Bandit and Pleads Piteously for Life; "Mercy Shots" End His Career. THREE TOWNS ARE TAKEN BY BANDITS Cowboys From Babiacora Ranch Defeat Force of Villistas, Killing Several and Capturing 11. CHIHUAHUA CITY, via El Paso Junction, Nov. 4. Dr. Fisher, an American physician living at Santa Rosalia, was killed by the Villa bandits under General Baudello Uribe, according to the statement of a Mexican refugee who arrived here from Santa Rosalia late today. to-day. Dr. Fisher was one of the few Americans known to have been In Santa Rosalia at the time the Villa bandits captured the town. EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 4. Colonel Bosarlo Garcia, Villa commander from Sonora, and two of his men, were executed exe-cuted U. Juarez early ' today, after being be-ing convicted by a military court on charges of treason. They were captured at Hacienda Santa Ana, near Nami-quipa, Nami-quipa, and were brought to Juarez yes-- yes-- terday. Colonel Garcia weakened when the moment of death came. After march- ing to the Juarez cemetery, in front of a guard "of eleven Carranza soldiers and an officer, Colonel Garcia asked permission per-mission to write a last lettor home to his family in Sonora. Seated on a log in front of the" sex- ton's bouse the Villa 'commander wrote a long letter, which he read aloud to the group of witnesses. In this state- ment he declared he was not a Villa bandit, but was a constitutionalist, and said he had been forced to carry papers to Villa. Mere Boy Executed. Tied to Colonel Garcia were two others oth-ers of his command. One was a beardless beard-less boy of 17 years, who licked his dry lips continually and wiped the tears " from his eyes with a soiled handkerchief. handker-chief. The other was a Mayo Indian in denim, who sat and smoked a cigarette while Garcia wrote his statement. After delivering this statement to the officer, Colonel Garcia made an impassioned impas-sioned plea for his life in a voice which broke with emotion and ended with a ' request that his family be cared for after his death. "Shoot me through the heart' he aid, sitting down in front of an adobo wall, pock-marked with the bullet holes of other executions. The boy also sat while the Indian squatted againBt the wall, smoking. "Mercy Shots" Fired. The execution squad fired. Garcia md hia companions rocked violently from the force of the fusillade, Garcia a knees doubled up with pain, he motioned to his heart, and begged the squad to fire again. This was done deliberately, the bandit commander's body quivering in the agony of his wounds. Thfc second volley failed to end his suffering, and it was not until the captain of the guard had fired two "mercy shots," point-blank at his head, that the bandit ban-dit 's body stilled. A "mercy shot" each dispatched the boy bandit and the Indian, the boy still clutching his soiled handkerchief and the Mayo his cigarette. |