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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 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. hills by 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. |