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Show sob I - . fj n ?)V f-V . - ih U&1 M M if H R PHP F M -Mm !;. f iji KVf t,i ' . her PaMiKtehKfeijd H U !;- v i . J Just Where He Was ' ' r .fvy v y Wounded, How He Escaped t ' jj il'S'f; 1 ! 'X an J Orfier Problems Revealed . v" ,jjR 1J Vfi I . v f for the hrst Ime by the . h 'fJ: ' . . J :: Ov on (fcc Same .1 ' 1 , ' ,, .."; 1 ''--H Street as mrs. -ja i l a , J ' Av I- SiV3 Larranza Francecco the Bandit , f j . if' NU I- ' ' vi: IS r , f 1 . .J f- . 7 - . ' ' - If vX IS ., , .. H i ' , 'tsVti " - jL Vvv t-ittle Augustin ViUa, the Soa of the Banfiit p , "4 L , " 1; ,V Chief, Whose Resemblance to His i ' . v " - ' " Rj "I k ' " " " i V-A Father Is Shown by the 1 J - 1 - ' Jn V fc . "I f'C;A Snap-Shot Opposite I t - ' . 7$ , " - v - ' J y'f? M , " ' " .t-Sf' '. i to automobiles, but no one has appeared . ' " " '..:.: 1"' " ' f"? M at a tea party,' I argued. S - i , ' v - V " , -1f Vl "I finally persuaded them to go ahead 1 I T - ' '( S ?L -- . v. 'nv - s iwlth the tea party plans. The men tools: L . V J aK rV- ' ?'t W ' " i a lively interest and carried out the big Lfel; V " t' U- J v' V V T H W oak dining room table. They brought out " 1 : Xf rrT . , f'l ' ' , '. -J'-l , tea sets, silver service, bowls, tureens H - '"" ' . t f , x C t . . ) i f V is ' f v " 1:1 until u looked like a feast. The children BSOOTL&NaSHlSB P I t i S V 5 , cut flowers that were growing in the yard. photo 6Y..F.S.iNc.N.v. kM 4 , ! 'i1, ' " Tt won't look well to have both cham- I4 , I t ' 1. pagne and tea, will it?' asked Mrs. Villa. Mrs. Villa and Little AugUStin, Out for a Walk ' L ,- ! 4 r " I She turned to a matronly looking woman ' ' i " I. , ' u '4 v 5 ! . .: ":, . . . kk to a purple plush gown and spoke in Span- il , T , . . , ' ' ' 1 lr' li !sn- I assumed this to be Mrs. Francisco FOR the first time, Mrs. Francisco this terrible campaign, t , " -'t t Villa. She looked more like the sturdy Villa, wife of the Mexican bandit and I believe he wilL L -i-JJ " f ' . "I 1T i Scotch-Irish type than the Latin, and I chief, has revealed some of the "Now he is Uery ferSSSmSSi , CKT.ISSlx am sure she had blue eyes, mysteries surrounding the movements of busy. He must have PBmj Q y. 1-RS.imc.n.y. f ! f I "Mrs. Francisco Villa smiled and spoke her notorious husband since the Colum- more men, but that he . -v. "V: . 2 to Hipolito. He called a servant, pulled bus raid. cannot help. The Car- All the Little Villas, Augustl'n and His Cousins, the Children - out a big roll of money from his pocket. The interview was obtained by Harold ranzistas blame all f Hippolito and Villa, All Refugees, but Still Happy ' peled off a ?2'bi" and 101(1 him t0 g0 F. Brown, a staff photographer for the evil onto Villa, but vv 5 ' iv3 an.d5uy, s0e n- ttssss.s Mrs. Villa and Little Augustin, Out for a Walk FOR the first time, Mrs. Francisco Villa, wife of the Mexican bandit chief, has revealed some of the mysteries surrounding the movements of her notorious husband since the Columbus Colum-bus raid. The interview was obtained by Harold F. Brown, a staff photographer for the Hearst International News Pictorial, while Mrs. Villa was stopping at the home of her husband's brother, Hipolito Villa, in San Antonio. Texas. The Villas recently came to this country from Cuba and are living in a nice neighborhood across from the fashionable Travis Club. Curiously enough, Mrs. Villa's American Ameri-can home is only a stone's throw from the boarding house at which Mrs. Car-ranza Car-ranza was stopping while the Interview was taking place. According to Mr. Brown, Francisco Villa evidently wasn't looking for a Carmen Car-men with soulful eyes, satin skin and pearly teeth when he selected a wife. At any rate, the woman he got isn't exactly of that type. She is a wholesome, healthy, level-headed sort of woman with a full quota of physical and intellectual power, but she is not Canuenesque. Mr. Brown's Interview: with this woman serves to introduce Augustin Villa, her four-year-old son. What the son of a real bandit chief looks like is shown on this page. The boy is a born soldier, STraight as an arrow, ar-row, snapping black eyes, already a horse master and a marksman, a small bundle of vibrant muscle fibres and tingling nerves. He is very precocious. Through an interpreter Mrs. Villa Ftout'.y denied that her husband was involved in-volved in the Columbus raid. "No. no, no That Is all a He!'' she exclaimed, ex-claimed, "tie had nothing to do with tho Columbus affair! Never! He was tho first to condemn that ontrase! "I have reasons to know positively that he was not there and had nothing to do with it, and the whole world will know and be F-aupped that this is true. The oirrumstanv's and evidence I am not at llberry to disclose now. My husband would not wish it. but I know he was not there. When he h; s conquered the northern States and has a little time to spare from his lighting then the truth J Kill be known if only he can live through this terrible campaTgn, and I believe he wilL "Now he is ' very busy. He must have more men, but that he cannot help. The Car-ranzistas Car-ranzistas blame all evil onto Villa, but Villa is not to blame. He must have men to fight for the freedom and honor of Mexico. Now he has probably eight or ten thousand men. They are such as he can get men who do not fear the Car-ranzistas. Car-ranzistas. War is bad. It is no worse in Mexico than it was in Belgium. "Villa will kill, yes, he would kill hi3 own brother or his wife if they proved traitors. He would kill any man that wxiuld harm a woman. That is why the people of Mexico love him. In all parts they come to him because he Is not afraid to do right and punish evil. "Look how they are coming to him. If he was so bad, would they be so willing will-ing to fight and die for him? "He was shot through the leg Just below be-low the knee. The bone was broken. There were only six men with him. They carried him up In the mountain. He had no water, no food, no medical attention. For four weeks he lay there and suffered, his men scattered in all directions. When they were almost dead from nunger ne sent four of his six men for food. After they were gone he became alarmed at the approach of soldiers, and the two men carried him over the ridge and down on tho other side of the mountain. It was a moDth since he had been wounded. A country doctor was brought to him by one of the two men. The leg was re-broken re-broken and reset. It was terribly painful pain-ful and it was harder still for him to keep so (juiet when he had so much to do. And he could not let it be known where he was so his men could come back to him. But when the wound got healed so that he could hobble around, then one by one the men gradually came back to him. "Why was he not betrayed? Ah, that is the proo:! The true patriots of .Mexico .Mex-ico wouid not betray Villa because he is tho friend of the poor and the patriot of Mexico himself. Yes, in some way the word was passed along from lip to lip among the faithful, and in little bands of companies the men drifted back to Villa and then began the fight to drive out the enemies of Mexico. "On and on they have marched with victory at every turn. Oh, there is so much to do and the blows must be struck quick and fast! There is no time for quibbling. Mexico mu3t be saved and the years of bloodshed must quickly come to an end. Then we shall have the explanations ex-planations and the world will know the truth. All the falsehoods and wicked plots will be exposed to the world. "Francisco Villa is not a robber. If he was fighting merely for personal gain he could have left Mexico long ago and en-Joyed en-Joyed wealth and luxury in some other country. No one can deny this, so why should he be starving and fighting with his very life at stake if he did not love his country?" Mrs. Villa said her husband had now sufficiently recovered from his wound, that he required only a cane and could ride a horse almost as welt as ever. So far as definite or specific plans are concerned con-cerned she could not say other than that be restored to orderly and civil government. govern-ment. "We do not want the United States to interfere with us in any way." she said, "but my husband always held we must never lose the friendship of the Americans, Ameri-cans, because they will always be helpful to us as friends and only injurious as enemies." A good deal of patience and diplomacy on the part of .Mr. Brown were required before he could get Mrs. Villa to pose for the "movies." From "somewhere on the Mexican border." bor-der." he writes: "Mr. Hipolito Viila and several important-appearing Mexicans were holding council on the veranda when I presented myself. lie received me courteously and gravely. One of the guests volunteered to sorve as interpreter, and I made my mission known. "There was a brief conference in Spanish, Span-ish, during which the interpreter apparently appar-ently was trying to form a polite but Copyright. 1310, by the Star Compan; final refusal. I knew what was coming from the expressions. "T regret to say,' he said, 'that Mrs. Villa is ill and it will he impossible for you to see her.' "When I called the next time we got better acquainted. It soon became apparent ap-parent to me that the real trouble was the question of whether it would be good policy for Mrs. Villa to appear in pictures. pic-tures. I suggested a little tea party, with the family sitting around the table on ;the veranda or in the yard. This they considered a good suggestion. "The day of the tea party came. Ross Peralata, my wide-awake chauffeur-interpreter, helped me up to the house with my cameras and tripod. "Mr. Villa was gone, but Mrs. Villa came to tile door. It was late in the afternoon. She said that Mrs. Francisco Villa was getting ready for the tea party and was going to be costumed like a Japanese. Jap-anese. This was a pleasant surprise. They not only had accepted the idea, hut were going to carry it out more picturesquely pic-turesquely than I had expected. " 'You will have to wait a little while, said Mrs. Hipolito Villa, 'because she ia going to a hairdresser to have her hair fixed up in Japanese style.' " 'Oh! How long will it take?' " 'About an hour and a half.' "I saw by the time they were ready It would have to be a moonlight picture. So it was agreed that I should come the next morning at half-past ten. "At half-past ten the next morning I was there. There were no signs of a tea party. Mr. Villa told me the women were getting ready and asked me to sit 1 down on the veranda to wait for them. By this time I had discovered that he understood quite a bit of English. It was an hour before the women were ready. Mrs. Hipolito came out on the veranda all dressed up for a ride. '"What about tbe tea party?' I asked. " 'Well; we decided it would be better to go riding. Mr. Villa did not want Mrs. Villa to dress in the Japanese kimono for tho picture. " 'Oh, but a riding picture is so common. Everybody has been photographed riding In automobiles, but no one has appeared at a tea party,' I argued. "I finally persuaded them to go ahead with the tea party plans. The men took a lively interest and carried out the big oak dining room table. They brought out tea sets, silver service, bowls, tureens until it looked like a feast. The children cut flowers that were growing in the yard. " Tt won't look well to have both champagne cham-pagne and tea, will it?' asked Mrs. Villa. She turned to a matronly looking woman in a purple plush gown and spoke in Spanish. Span-ish. I assumed this to be Mrs. Francisco Villa. She looked more like the sturdy Scotch-Irish type than the Latin, and I am sure she had blue eyes. "Mrs. Francisco Villa smiled and spoke to Hipolito. He called a servant, pulled out a big roll of money from his pocket, peeled off a $20 bill and told him to go and buy some champagne. iuauo, lie caueu, a.s ui lau umiieu away, meaning bring four bottles. "YThile waiting for the champagne we arranged the children at the small table for a picture. Mrs. Francisco Villa took an active part in arranging the picture, putting in the flowers and having a rug laid before the table for the babies to sit on. "I had the different members of the family looking through the view finder on the camera until they became very enthusiastic about the effects. "One of the little girls poured the tea and the party became as animated ?s could be expected under the circumstances. circum-stances. "By the time we were through with the children the champagne had arrived and was poured. I suggested that they drink a toast to the General, and this was done at the time I Indicated. Of course, in the interim of moving pictures I wras taking snapshots, but the snapshot of the toast was too hastily performed to look natural. I made many snapshots. "Thus were the moving pictures of the Villa family finally obtained and when the office In New York wired for a story I found myself able to fill the order." |