Show SEVEN MEXICAN RUSTLERS SLAIN Texas Cowboys and Troops Kill Horse Thieves Across Border ALPINE Texas Sept 22 Seven P Seven Mexican vaqueros are arc dead victims dead victims of six shooter justice that justice that a band of Texas cowboys Invoked in recoverIng recoverIng recover recover- Ing a herd of horses stolen from a Texas border ranch The vaqueros vaqueros were down by ay range riders from the desolate Big Bil BigBend BigBend Bend country after they had crossed the Rio Rip Grande river into Mexico Surviving members of the thc rustling gang are arc serving servine te terms ms in a Mexican prisons after speedy trials The belated report of or the raid reminiscent of the old west C came from A. A F. F R Robinson binson supe superintendent of a aC aC C 2 C C camp 90 miles south of here He Hc talked with Elmo Johnson Brewster Brewster Brew Brew- ster county rancher and leader of the cowboy co posse and relayed the story here The Mexican cowhands swept across the Rio Grande and nd made a midnight ra raid d on Johnsons Johnson's ranch They rounded up 1 his s entire herd of range horses and dr drove ve th them thema iT across ross the river Into into M xico Johnson Immediately Im mediately org organized a a posse of cowboys cow cow- bo boys s s 's from adjoining ran ranches hes Across the Rio Grande the posse rode in n pursuit of the thieves A band of Mexican federal soldiers met them and joined in the search Hours later they encountered the rustlers rustlers' and a agun agun agun gun fight started Seven Mexicans fell from Crom their horses horses dead Others started to flee and then surrendered The detachment detachment detach detach- ment of soldiers and posse came out of or the fight without a I scratch I While the posse drove the horses back to Texas the soldiers took their prisoners to a nearby village where trials were held and the prisoners sentenced to 20 years each in a western west west- em ern Mexico penitentiary |