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Show GARCIA 10 HiS 1EIT00ESH0T THISMORNING Villa Commander Captured on Hearst Ranch by Cow- boys to Pay Full Penalty Pen-alty for Crime. EL PASO, Nov. 3. Colonel Rosario Garcia, the Villa commander who was captured on the Santa Ana ranch, near Namiquipa, by Carranza troops and cowboys, was' brought to Juarez from Madera, Chihuahua, today. Papers claimed to have been found in his possession pos-session and addressed to Villa also were brought to Juarez, to be used as evidence. evi-dence. Colonel Garcia is said to be a Sonora commander, and the Carranza officers in Juarez claim he was carrying the papers from a general in Sonora to Villa. It is expected that he will be shot ab a bandit, although he may be taken to Chihuahua City for further investigation investiga-tion by General Trevino before execution execu-tion . With Colonel Garcia wero brought eight of his bandit command, who weio also captured at Santa Ana bv the Carranza Car-ranza soldiers, according ' to General Gonzales. They will meet the same fate as their commander, the Carranza commander com-mander in Juarez stated. Three Passengers Shot. Passengers arriving from Chihuahua t'Uv on the delayed passenger train last night brought additional details of the robDerv of the Mexican Central passenger pas-senger tram which left Juarez Monday. They said three passengers were shot by the bandits when they tired into the passenger train, one being a Mexican Mexi-can woman. It was not known whether they were killed. The conductor who was shot "was Carlos Pairis, whose father is an American. He was shot in the hip by the bandits when he attempted at-tempted to replace a rail which had been removed by the bandits to wreck the passenger train. The engine and tender were derailed, the passengers stated, but the coaches did not leave the rails. The passengers brought a report that the Carranza guards made a fight when they saw the Villa bandits, and eight ol' them succeeded in escaping, the remaining re-maining twenty-nine, including Captain Guzman, beiDg shot. The passengers stared, however, that there was a report re-port irj Chihuahua City that a number of Carranza guards bad" joined the Villa bandit?, though the official report stated all had been executed. Report Confirmed. The passengers confirmed the report that, the passengers, both men and women, wom-en, were robbed of their clothing. They paid the passengers were obliged to wear blankets and even newspapers into Chihuahua Chi-huahua City after the bandits forced them to disrobe. The passengers reported General For-tunato For-tunato Maycotte in Jimenez, Chihuahua, with four of his troop trains. They say that General Maycotte mounted his artillery ar-tillery on flat cars, which were placed in the first troop train. Seeing this artillery, the Villa baodits, who were said to be in possession of Sanla Rosa-H.'i. Rosa-H.'i. evacuated the town after firing at fh Carranza troop trains from behind ;i hill near the railroad track. A military train carrying an escort of 40D Carranza soldiers accompanied the train as tar as Villa A human" a. A train escort of 1.50 soldiers continued to Juarez and joined the Carranza garrison gar-rison on the border. A passenger train left Juarez today for Chihuahua without a military escort, but will be guarded from Villa Ahumada to Chihuahua City by a troop tr3in which accompanied last night's train to that station. Bandits Located. The bandits who held up and robbed the train Monday night at La Guna station sta-tion were reported by Carranza scouts to be at the entrance to Santa Clara canyon, west of La Guna station, according ac-cording to another passenger on the train which arrived last night. Villa bandits again are cutting the ears from captured Carranza soldiers aud then sending them back to their commands as, a warning to other Carranza Car-ranza soldiers, said a Mexican civilian refugee, who reached here today from Jimenez, Chihuahua. He came to El Paso by way of Torreon, Coahuila, and from there to Eagle Pass, Tex., as the Mexican Central railroad was cut between be-tween Jimenez and Chihuahua City. He claimed to have seen sixteen Carranza Car-ranza soldiers at Jimenez with the ears severed from their hear!?. He said the sight was revolting, as the ears had been cut off with military sabres, and in many instances the skin of the face had "been mutilated, the wounds had become infected and tho soldiers were suffering suffer-ing great agony. The refugee paid he had been told by the mutilated soldiers that a total of eighty-three Carranza soldiers had had toeir ears cut off by Villa bandits at anta TCosalia. Those sixteen soldiers, ho said, had vached Jimenez from Santa Rosalia on their way to Torreon, and thev reported that Villa bandits had looted Santa Rosalia Ro-salia anil had impressed many citizens of that town. American mining men h a vi n g interests inter-ests in Parral continued making efforts todny -o confirm the report "received from chihuahua City yesterdav that Villa had captured Parral on Tuesday. They have sent messages to Chihuahua Citv and to Jimenez by way of Eacle Pass, Tex., and Torreon, Mexico, but have received m. replies. Passengers arriving from Chihuahua City last uight on the delayed passenger passen-ger train said the report was general in the state capital- Carranza officials here and in Juarez continue to deny the report, though admitting that they have had nothing on which to base their denial de-nial except knowledge of the strength of the Parral garrison. |