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Show ViLLA THREATENED TO BMill Details of Appeals to Outlaw Out-law Chief Contained in Letter. 1-0! ANGELES. Dec. 11. Details of personal appeals to Francisco Villa for consideration at his hands while he was in control of Chihuahua Citv are recited in a Jetier received today from Mrs. Bar-nett Bar-nett Dannis. whose husband is proprietor of a general merchandise store there. The letter, to her son. .Samuel Dannis. a Los Anceles attorney, asserts that Villa was given l.'i-iO.OOO pesos after he had threatened threat-ened to bum Chihuahua City if the silver was not forthcoming. Villa also made threats, the letter says, tn relieve Americans in Mexico of all their property and valuables. The Dannis store was looted. "Three times I went to Villa's headquarters head-quarters and asked him personally that he not disturb at least our household ef- : fects." the letter continues. "He would j not listen to anything I asked him, but said everything Americans possessed now living in Mexico would be taken away by the Mexicans, and that orders had been given to his men that what could not be taken should be destroyed. The fixtures in our store, the show cases, shelving and counters were destroyed. "We stayed in hiding for six days. During' Dur-ing' that time we had to have something to eat and I dressed like a native woman, and in that disguise I managed to reach Villa's headquarters and also to interview Villa. "After looting the city and making away with about $400,000 worth of merchandise, destroying and burning every building tha t belonged to foreigners. Villa de-ma de-ma nded 1, mo, 000 pesos in silver of the various residents in the city under threat of burning the town. The money he got. He stated that he had to have as much loot as possible, as the expedition to Chihuahua Chi-huahua had cost him a great deal of money. "Chinamen and Mexicans were killed by the. scores. Dead are strewn all over the city." |