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Show BANDIT CHIEF I IS EXECUTED I Colonel Valles Is Captured at M Palomas and Brought Be- IH fore Juarez Firing Squad. Lieutenant-Colonel With Eight H Followers Being Marched M Overland to Meet fl Same Fate. M El Paso, Texas, Jan. IS. Colonel :H (Miguel Baca Valles, bandit chief cap- JH tured at Palomas, south of Columbus, H X. M. was executed at five o'clock H this morning by a firing squad at Jua- H rez. Two bullets fired at close quar- H ters penetrated his heart, after he H had declared he was not responsible H for the robberies of Villa and plead- H ed to see General Gaviera, Carranza H commandant. H Lieutenant-Colonel Cisnros, who H was captured last week with Baca H Valles, is ibelng marched overland H with eight followers caught with him, jH and according to Mexican officials, IH also will be placed promptly before jH a firing squad. jH Baca Valles, who was known as H on the train which brought the body H declared to be that of Jose Rodriguez, H the bandit chief executed near Ma- H deira last Thursday. The two bodies H were taken later to the Mexican cus- jH toms house here to bo viewed by H Americans who have expressed doubt H as to the identity of the man' executed j as Rodiguez. H BacaV alles, who was known as H Villa's most callous executioner, at H which he arrived a few minutes be- H fore five o'clock. He was marched : through the dimly lighted platform H of tho railway station where many H families spent their nights. Execu- M tions had been so frequent at Juarez M in tho final days of the Villa regime, H however, that not a ripple of interest H was shown. M The proceedings were brlof The H 'prisoner said: "I am not responsiblo IH for the acts and robberies of Villa, I IH beg to see your general." The officer M commanding the firing squad said he M had orders to kill and he and a sol- M der stepped up close to Baca Valles ' 'fl and fired point blank into the prison '1 er's heart. The body was then taken H back to the railway station where 'H it lay uncovered on the platform until 'M after dawn among the men, women ,H and children lying about wrapped in H Blankets. 'H |