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Show VILLISTA CHIEF KILLED. Outlaw Attacks Army Engineers and is Shot Down. Columbus, N. M. Candelario Cervantes, Cer-vantes, the Villista .bandit leader, was killed by American troops south of Cruces on Friday. Cervantes' end came after he had made a surprise attack south of Cruces on a detachment of engineers repairing the motor truck road. He was beaten .back and pursued into the iUls toy the engineers, who had been reinforced by a detachment of the Seventeenth infantry. One other Mexican, Jose Bencorne, and one of the Americans were killed. Two Americans "were wounded. |