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Show f mm betrays mm REBEL . I Tricky Leader Who Professed Loyalty Is Himseif a Vic tim of Deception 3 U 1 N1 BRET : ; !. , lug 12. jjjt General Jesus Guajardo', who trcach- Ml crously tricked and slew the wily rebel SJ leader, Emiil: no Zapata, himself fell ffifiB B a victim of deception when he was SMI captured by government troops and! w5J executed her July is, lust. The late! of his latest and last adventure is thus1 jjES told here: Thirteen months ago Guajardo, a Srj colonel In Carranza's army, attacked a detachment of his own faction's, 'ff troops, killed and wounded several j j ;fi of them and convinced Zap.ta that ho ; had a new adherent. Then, as Zapata, -si J greeted him In salute, he had ordered , his men to fire on Zapata and the , noted rebel chief was blown out of his j It saddle, dond It mam: a GENERAL. k'JH "To reward this act, Carrana'made kJB double dealer a general, and a 'S'kBB little oor a year later he turned up- rn his benefactor im! Joined the sue-' cessful revolution of Obrcgon and de la Huerta "After many misgivings they ac-1 HH 1 cepted hlr.i .'is z neral in tin- ne w arir.v. XjfiHdf and gave him the command of a bri- DfSaS pad and he started for Torremi on 4a 8fc campaign as.ila-t 'illa While en 5?ka route he stopped his trains, assembl- jfjotg cd his regimental commanders and ex- r;jg plained that he had resolved' "not to 1 fcfciS recognize'' the do la Huerta regime any Jj longer, but to go Into the field for the 19bc9 newest revolution and join Cuna, Rl- . .' cardo G01 others, fight- ' lng to the eastward around Nfonterer.v M But several colonels, his chief of staff and half his command, deserted him. B9P "Finally Guajardo abandoned the HH trains and started to march for the j :. mountains of IsTuevo Leon Soon h - h earned that Amaro, leaving the chase of Villa for the time, was .n his irac:; HP and that the risings around Monterey -wCfl had ben failures The remnant of ' his command melted away uncle;' at-IH at-IH tacks of government troops until th?re 1 62 remained j,J one raitluul colonel and an orderly. "Dressed in civilian clothes. General B Guajardo hid in the home of a rela- live in Monterey. 1 i BETRAY i BY "FRIEND." Jr- Mi n while, Colonel Antonio Cano, WKT one of Guajardo'fl colonels, who had abandoni d him, tit d bewn ptured by federal troops, taken to Monterey and nmZ released there. Next day, Colonel Cano . caJled at thi housi where Gun j. was hiding to visit the owner who r.lso was his relative DO his sarprl.se he found there his late commander. gp4Jf General Guajardo, who asked him not to reveal his whereabouts. Cano, how-HH how-HH ever, revealed Guajardo's hiding piace. 1 an order for his arrest was issued and with several other colonels Cano was i sent to execute it. 1 ' Car.o again was admitted to see j Guajardo and pretended to untold to him plans for the future While they were talking the federal colon?ls en-I en-I tered and arrested Guajardo. He was taken a prisoner to thi sinie penitentiary. peniten-tiary. "Orders came from Mexico City directing di-recting that he should b tried by courtmartlal, which waa cone thai night, July 17. With practically no defense to offer, he was round guilty the sentence was approved by General of Division EugeniO Martinez at Monterey Mon-terey and early in the morning Geii-c-r.il l ..u.s i.u.ij irr stc pj il lit of l.L quarters In me eld barracks at the Plaia do Arms, where he had been tried and said farewell to a few faithful faith-ful friends. "Thn he Stepped 'n front of the firing fir-ing squad and 1 a.il with his life, the final penalty of his treachery to tho new government." |