Show M lY Pancho Villa as a. Seen by One Who Knew Him When N THE TI-IE red annals of Mexican IN INTI-IE INTI I history beginning with the arrival of Cortez down through the ill fated Maximillian's reign and afterward to that smoke-laden smoke era dawning with the new century and unfolding under gunfire up to the assassination of Obregon un there have hell boon many sensational and over over- overconfident overconfident confident had bail men who by the bullet II the blade went the way of all ail flesh If by popular vote the question could be he decided Pancho ancho Villa who graduated from a n plain cattle c thief f fInto Into n a world famous revolutionary would receive the palm for tourism Many times have I 1 crossed the trail of or Pancho and on each ench occa occa- occasion sign sion fattened his hi biography with data amazing and almost unbelievable its Ills life was a n mosaic traced with human blood bland on nn the adobe of Mexico i Recently through daymen lumon Krupp for many man years years Jears a merchant In El EI Paso today tOlla an nn oil nil operator In the Lone Star state where he be attained distinction by his hits development of or the Big Illg BI Lake Lal fields royalties ro from which made the University University sity of Texas at Austin one of the richest educational edu Institutions In the Union I am privileged ed to add another chapter to the life of Pancho the Damned Starts as a Drayman lie Ie turned up at El EI Paso In 1000 1009 IDO said Mr Ir Krupp with a down broken truck and one horse seeking employ employ- employment employment ment at delivering merchandise I gave ave him work worl at so much per load Although he did everything e cr possible to Ingratiate himself with me I hadn't the slightest Idea that his mission was the rounding of of revolutionists re bent hent benton henton on liberating Mexico from the Diaz rule rille That however was his mission All else was sacrificed to such ends Panch Gets Going Strong Suddenly Pancho ancho disappeared from fromEl fromEl El EI Paso and with him as was after after- afterwards afterwards wards learned a n number of men and horses The next news I got of Villa lIIa he lie had hod raided rallied and was occupying Juarez with a few hundred followers and was recruiting an army with u a view v to seizing power He lIe Ie needed blankets for his troops Would I trust him for I sent a carload It was not long before he had com com- completely completely Infested Juarez and the harder border and by b virtue of his position supported hy by y peons forced recognition reco as leader eader Ills His next order for merchandise merchandise dise disc amounting to was ac ne- companied by b a trainload of confiscated confiscated Mexican cotton I declined the security but was advised by the American authorities that It was negotiable negotiable and could be sold by me I ac ac- accepted accepted nc- nc It as nl payment In full and dis dis- disposed disposed disposed posed of the lot at a profit That was wasn In n 1910 1010 with Pancho going strong The General Staff Meeting Did you see him after he left El EI ElPaso Paso aso and got In action 1 I asked Krupp Yes I was summoned to attend a meeting of his general staff starr at Juarez and asked why I did not ship the he S1 order for blankets shoe and supplies that had come to me ow two tw weeks before I told him It was wis be he- because because cause he owed me on a n pre pre- previous ious shipment and with that he turned upon General and de demanded that he proceed at once to to dig up that sum of money no matter mattl r where here he was obliged to get It beckoned me to follow v him which f r did did Just around the hall Into another room where wh re I received the exact sum due In silver sliver Mexican and United States currency with the positive as ns assurance assurance on part that Pancho would personally shoot him through h the he belly hell for letting that much cash casu exchange e hands Not so I saw Gen Cen General eral several times after that But It was not beyond Pancho rancho to shed blood with sith little provocation It Et Etwas was vas his habit to send men to bury hury money In a n certain spot and then kill them hem when they reported that orders tad hall been heen carried out My Iy total trans trails actions with Villa amounted to over o all of or which he paid laid with 1111 exception of Tragic End of Revolutionist Pancho Panello was captured by boY Huerta II escaped es Into New Mexico was u-as chased chased by General G Pershing but got Ol away to return In 1014 1914 stud and Joined against a Huerta then president Later he ie turned against Carranza was 08 cap cap- captured captured In lu 1915 1015 and given hen a o ranch In Paral aral by the Mexican got government eminent o where he lived In to high style st le until i 1923 3 when he was shot from ambush while driving his car with some corn convivial coU I vial friends No other occupant of or the auto was hit I Ignorance was wu the he cause of his undoing lIe ne could barely read and In consequence be be- became became came cume suspicious of all those h him m. m Then There can be no na question smooth around shout about his ils genius for leadership and In the beginning of his Insurrection he ha hall hail a n Robin Hoods Hood's power With n a little hub more education and a wn sense of or tion on Villa might ht have loomed large lurge In the he history of his country countr fr e Service S I |