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Show VILLA LIEUTENANT KILLEOIN BATTLE PARTICIPANT IN SANTA YSABEL MASSACRE SHOT DOWN' BY ONE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. Outlaw Chieftain Leaves Command Following Unsuccessful Raid on Jiminez and Goes Fifty Miles to Southwest. Chihuahua City. J. Beltran, one of . Villa's chief lieutenants, and a partici-. partici-. pant in the massacre of eighteen Americans at Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Chihua-hua, last January, was killed in the engagement at Cerro Blanco, July 12, reports sent on the loth to General Ja-( Ja-( cinto Trevino, indicated. These reports were supported by stories told upon ( their arrival here by Villista prisoners, . who said that when the bandits reformed re-formed at Sombreretillo, Beltran was I missing. I The prisoners said that Villa him-. him-. self was not present at Cerro Blanco, ' the outlaw forces being directed by , Calexito Contreras. The bandit chief- tain, they said, being disappointed , upon the evacuation of Jiminez at his failure to capture arms and ammunition, ammuni-tion, left the command, going to Ha- cienda Salalses, about fifty miles ' southwest. The Villistas added that because of the shortage of ammunition only ten rounds was allowed each man in the Cerro Blanco engagement and that following the fight more than 300 men deserted. General Trevino received dispatches from General Matais Ramos, commanding com-manding the columns pursuing the bandits, in which he announced that 3 he had the outlaws completely surrounded sur-rounded and expected to close in upon ' them shortly from all sides. Contact ' can be expected in the vicinity of Ro-e Ro-e sario any time now, the dispatches said. 1 |