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Show If MANURE i. KILLED BY CALLES 1 If! BIsbee. Ariz,, Nov. 4. Dr. R. H. H jrli Tighen, chief surgeon of the Cananea ; ji. , Consolidated Copper company, hlB as- j y siatant, Dr. Miller and J. D. Pylant, m t R nn American chauffeur, reported Hif" killed on the battlefield near Agua H m Prieta yesterday, were seen at 5 p. m jll' today, "according to information re- H IMJ ceived tonight by officials of the com- H i ' pany here. M jt It -was said that the three men H l were seen by a chauffeur named Klt- Hi tie, who is employed by General l ' Francisco Villa, as they were walking S toward the south, between San Jose and Villa Verde, Sonora, about ten miles south of Naco. Kittle told officials of the com- M I pany, it was declared, that he knew M IN, Pylant. The Villa chauffeur also gave Mpjh n good description of Dr. Tighen and M M Miller. m $ij No mention was said to have been M made by Kittle of A. L. Wilson, the H j fourth man reported killed. B r& Hfjiji Naco, Ariz., Nov. 4. Francisco Villa Mjui reached the border across from hero BIlO today with 3000 of the army defeated Kftjj by the Carranza forces Monday, at Kl Agua Prieta, and told the American Hjli army officers that Dr. R. H. Thighen, Eltj chief surgeon of the Cananea Con- H. solidated Copper company, his asslst- Hl ant, Dr. Miller, and two American Haj chauffeurs, J. D. Pylant and A. L. Hjjl Wilson, had been killed yesterday HJ! morning by Calles' fire in front of Hlft Agua Prieta. They were succoring H wounded at the time and wandering HI into the line of five, and were all Hnjlj shot down while under a Red Cross H jj j flag. They were buried where they Hjjrjl fell, but Villa, while formally ex- Hjjij pressing regret at their death, de- Hm! clined tonight to say where they were HpH buried. He could not permit any HjJ bodies to be disinterred, even to clear jl, a doubt that they actually had been H ill killed. This doubt was caused by the ig! statement of Dr. Frederick H. Wick- Htfl man of St Louis, Mo., who dashed HI across the line this afternoon shout- B ing that he was about to be shot, and B 1 afterward declared that he had seen in j Doctors Thlghen and Miller at 9 jljr o'clock last night. Wickman, how-Bfj how-Bfj evcr appeared to be somewhat dazed M ujt from fatigue and the experience which M ft he declares he underwent while under Hfij a. death watch awaiting execution for Hj some unknown offense. Hjl Four thousand of Villa's men are Utt! at Vlllaverde, a watering station and HmAi cattle center 22 miles Bouth on the B Naco-Cananea railroad. Another de- H' tachment was reported tonight to be H( looting stores and residences at Can- Hl anea. Mrs. Thighen, wifo of the Hlj missing doctor, and her daughter Hfffil "w'er8 refusees here today from Can- Hl! anea. Hl' VI1Ia began receiving supplies as Hill1 Botl as te reached Naco and stated Hill! that he personally intended to leave fi tonight Hl It; waa believed, however, that he would go to Nogalee, where the army H I, here would follow him, when the force Vi' at Vlllaverde would bo left to oppose any pursuit by the Carranza forces under Calles at Naco. Another attack on Agua Prieta by the Villa army appeared to be a distant prospect. Shortly after he appeared at Naco with a detachment bringing more than 100 wounded men, Villa came up to the boundary to make a report re-port of the death of four Americans. "I regret that they were killed," ho said, "but they are dead and burled." Under Red Cross Flag. Villa later told officials of the Cananea Consolidated Copper company com-pany that the four men were under a Red Cross flag when fired on by the Calles riflemen. He stated that their deaths occurred between 10 "30 and 11 o'clock yesterday morning when a detachment of Calles' cavalry from Agua Prieta encountered a detachment de-tachment of Villa troops and retreated after a brief engagement. Through agents here Villa, upon his arrival, sought permission to have his wounded men removed from Naco to Juarez, over American territory. He said that if permission could be given Carranza to transport fighting men from Mexico over American territory ter-ritory to Agua Prieta, surely Washington Wash-ington ought to grant him permission safely to send east his warriors incapacitated in-capacitated by the fire of the enemies ene-mies so favored. |