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Show ; THBII I IMC QTftDV lnnlLLlnluoluKi ; OF MRS WRIfiflT OS lfllWi luilUiili Describes Nine-day Ride With Villa Troops Learns Fate $f Husband and Bab)'. i Hears Villa Tell Plan lo Force U. S. Invasion of Mexico j i Relies ,tn Aid From 1 Japan and Germany. El Paso. Texas. March li. Mis Maud Hawk AVnght, the American woman who rode nlno days with tho Villa troops preceding the raid on Columbus. N. M., learned last night that her baby which had been taken from her and given to si Mexican family, fam-ily, was safe at Pearson, Mexico, and j that hor husband had been murdered by the soldiors a short distance fiom j Iheir home Mrs. Wright arrived in j El Paso yesterday morning with Mib. j If. J Slocum, wife of tho Thirteenth I Cavalry commander. 'I Avant to go to my baby," Mrs f Wright said. "It would only take me t thiee days to wall: to Pearson" I i She was informed that the child , piobably would be brought to Juarci F on the train which Is to bring the j Mormon colonists. r Mrs. Wright Tells Story I Dry eyed and stoical after the lor- E rible experiences In which sho had E suffered hungor, thirst, exposure, al- P most inevitable death in addition to the sorrow and worry over the loss of a her husband and child, Mrs. Wright re- l told her story to a. representative of V the Associated Press last night as C though it were commonplace. She had S suffered so much, sho apparently had B lost all sense of fear. c Because she suffered in silence, nev- i cv complaining, and holding herself 9 aloof from the horde of soldiers, fugi I tlves, derelicts, and vagabonds which 5 compriso Villa's soldiers, she wns called "Laroyna", queen of Uic VJllls- I tas, by the troops. Villa had told ono 1 of the officers that he preferred to B .have her die ot exhaustion rather than k to kill her outright and because sho C proved to be able to withstand hard S ship belter than his own men, hr jj promised he would release her after I ho 'had sacked Columbus. He also I agreed to give her ?100 gold, and .1 g permit to travel unmolested through- I out any part of Villa- territory. U Villa Relics on Foreign Aid. F "Villa only talked to mo twice. Mrs. 1 Wright said. "I avoided talking witlu W him because he would haye thought I R admired him. and would nave forced a me to accompany him. He told bin " officers how he would wipe out the 1 town of Columbus, and then whou the United States tried to Invade the Mexican tenltory, Germany aiuWa-pan aiuWa-pan would step in to interfere. Villa believed this firmly. I have overheard him make such remarks from tlmo to time. Whether some agents of these two countries aro making him believe this, or whether it Is an idea which came to him, I do not know. But he is convinced that ho will be assisted in the fight ho has started. "How I wanted to escape to tell tho people of Columbus about the attack. But I was -watchQd all the time. The first night I was allowed to sleep in an abandoned adobe hut which was prepared for me. About thirty saddles sad-dles were piled In fiont of tho door. Tho guards slept with their heads to the door, and their feet to a firo just beyond. Steps Over Sleeping Guards. "I lay down, but not to sleep. About midnight, I heard the snoring of th& Mexican guards. I peered through the opening of tho saddles, and spied Villa's charger, a splendid steod, about fifty feet from the hut. One by ono I removed the baddies and stepped oer the sleeping forms until I reached the horse. "Tho horse was tangled in his rope. I began to untangle the horse, and then one of tho Mexicans turned over. He saw somothing was wrong. I stood behind the horse But the horse refused re-fused to stand still and it kept me busy keeping behind the animal. Finally Fin-ally the guard came out to where the ,horso wa3. " 'What arc you doing here?' I asked. ask-ed. " 'What are you doing here?' he asked. ask-ed. " 'Untangling this horse." I replied. Then he finished the task I started. I longed for a hatpin, a dagger, a penknife, pen-knife, anything to kill tho man I could have shot him. had I had a gun. If 1 could havo killed him, I could have escaped, since none of the other horses could have overtaken me. I returned to the hut. From then ou, I was watched constantly. "For three days and night, wo were without fire In tho frost-covered mountain moun-tain country or northern Chihuahua, For thirty hours we wero without water. But the soldiers often did without rather than sec my canteen empty. |