Show N V W S M odthe of true st the federal stories greatest 04 Delec defective tive 4 ae e c information agency bureau the of U S dept 0 of justice it by WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY aa 61 ai A 4 with the llie revolution makers cop right by IV 0 chapman the isla doloroso Is in the rio dgrande grande a few miles below ul hl paso it Is mexican territory and is owned downed by an aged ranchman named jose encino if one should start a campfire campf lre anywhere on the island he be running a monstrous risk for so great is the quantity of ammunition that has been smuggled thus far on its way to revolutionary war and buried that any such fire file might cause a huge explosion I 1 i it ws in the moonshine of a clear Wo november vember night in 1911 that a boat drifted down othellio th the ellio rio grande grade from the american side pulled up among the coattails cattails cat catt tails alls of the north shore of the island Y andaas and was beached beneath a great cottonwood tree that stood out against the ahe sky as a landmark two men stepped ashore and waited in the shadows fifteen minutes later two riders splashed into the water from the aho mexican side floundered through the stream that but came came to the stirrups i and pointed the noses of their horses for the same huge tree nearing ing it they bey halted reyes said a voice from the darkness gomez 11 responded a rider 1 A small email dark man eme emerged aged from the shadow of the cottonwood and h helped I 1 the riders to dismount one I 1 ot of these latter proved to bo be a woman who was treated with great courtesy ly by the small man when the horses were tied the four seated themselves beneath the tree in a spot where the underbrush shut out the world from 1 tho the fitful light afan of an occasional match ahat that served to light the e eternal cigarettes of these mexicans an observer af if it had been possible for one io 0 o have been present might have studied lour four interesting faces the bearer of news and evidently the leader of the party was the small darla man already me mentioned As it I 1 after afterward ward developed he W was dr rafail flo alores r es of el paso doctor flores as the file nicker er of a match revealed was aman a man of some some i sixty years of age a thin wa wiry individual with refined and almost classic features he was a practicing physician a citizen of means and rep repute in the border city the man who had come with him in th the boat ivas was named Cm comacho aho he was short square built deeply pock marked he was notorious along the border particularly in lower california he was an anarchist and an expert with explosives and was suspected of having been connected with many deeds the roan man who came on horseback was huge and heavy and wore always a red flannel shirt he it was who had bad led the assault on juarez when the troops of FrancIsco villa had captured tur d that city early in the madero campaign he it was who inflicted some come of the early atrocities upon prisoners who plied piled the torch and who had to be discouraged in his activities ly by even his bandit associates red shirt pena he had since been called I 1 lils his specialty was smuggling fire arms I 1 over the border he had sixty loyal followers in the vicinity of el carmen and the woman senorita josefa josefak calderon was the name by which shel dhe was known she was from the inferior ster for was wao something of a mystery j never mever entirely understood but the I 1 current belief was that she was 0 a sister of general orozco that thai un un controlled chief of rebels was even then stationed kt at juarez in command of madero gidoro fro troops epif 1 andaas and was vacillating between allegiance to the new prest didenti and the leading of a revolt 1 against him ahlm senorita calderon veiled dark eyed wilm as a cactus was j thought to be his messenger i The rejis Igi news fews eald doctor flores as soon boon as the party had bad settled itself general reyes la Is in san an conlo ile he arrived at new orleans a week ago came on to san an antonio tonio where abere he be was given a great demonstration str atlon he has opened revolutionary he headquarters alqua arters there and every mall mail brings letters letter s and every train brings messengers assuring him of support in overthrowing madero he has ar ranged for money to finance remove the movement the ahe friends of emillo emilio vasquez gomez are busily busil yat at work along the border the american financial interests in mexico are back of us we wa are to 6 open headquarters in el paso and begin the active organization of our lour forces but the money said eald red shirt tena we can do nothing until we have money with which to buy ammunition atlon the money aastrid the doctor Is to be immediately forthcoming in that connection I 1 have a mission for the senorita Cali calderon leron she is to go im immediately to san aatonio to report I 1 to the ahe chief and to get the money when the money arrives said bom OBa acho acbo the anarchist all things will be possible there Is ia dynamite cached at newman and more at ala ma magorno gordo ramon sanchez has bar other stores of it at phoenix we can start action at halt a dozen points and wake every dozing peon in mexico but provide the money doctor and I 1 will guarantee to wake up two nations there Is little question of getting results either through the overthrow throw of Made madero or intervention by the united states likewise will the arms arma begin to cross the river as soon as they may be bought volunteered pena 1 I have many men ready to travel back and forth and each will c carry arry a gun and a box of cartridges each trip 11 and the senorita asked doctor flores fiores can she go for us to san antonio As the senor wishes said that young woman but where shall I 1 report on my return back of my residence said the doctor there Is a small building opening into the alley there are no windows we will meet there 1 after along a long discussion of the details of the organization of the junta this first gathering of the arch con aspirators broke up it was a week after this meeting on the rio grande that archie dobbs special agent of the department of justice assigned particularly to the mexican border to look after violations of the neutrality laws began to notice the frequency with which groups groups of mexicans were to be seen engaged in earnest conversation in the streets of el paso about the orndorff if hotel there were in evidence groups of wealthy appearing grandees grandeas gran dees such as own great ranches beyond the border idling about the mexican saloons were many big vaqueros ros such as make up the armies of any revolutionary movement when trouble starts across the line dobbs went to see juan this young son of chihuahua was one of the der dependable men of Ikla madero deio was a member of the personal secret service of the new president and his station at el paso was regarded as important as an outpost of trouble for the government what is in the air asked the american special agent of revolution said the mexican who havo have they got reyes gomez probably orozco possibly bly villa said have you got an informer among them dobbs asked no I 1 have tailed failed in that tha t respect was the answer who Is the one military leader that madero can trust dobbs wanted to know the mexican secret service man recommended general herrera at chihuahua he also stated that doctor flores was the reyes eyes representative at el paso archie dobbs acted at once the department of justice has its special agents who will fit into almost any condition that Is likely to rise billy lard gard tor for instance had been assigned to this work on the mexican border because of his I 1 knowledge of spanish As he was gro growing wing up his father had served for many years in the consular service and billy had become as a native of the latin countries it had been his pride as a lad to assume overs every cha characteristic ot of the land to which his father was assigned and it was probably this dissembling that led him into the detective game with a bli bit of a mexican mexican touch to his hii wearing apparel and a covering of alkali dust he now became a typical son of the tha land of the south such was as the appearance presented by gard when two days after the talk between the secret service men of two nations he be came into rl el paso from the south ho he bore credentials crede from general herrera which it had been possible for him to get through maderos secret service man juan ile he app appeared eared much bornand wom wor nand and I 1 dust covered when hen henegan he began a search of el piso paso for doctor mores flores having found that gentleman in fia consultation with vc a party cf ranch owners at the orndorff tt hotel he hd presented himself and asked for a word in private with the junta chief cliplef 1 I am from general herrera said gard card 1 I bring to you his greetings and these theme credentials which will assure you that noumay you may treat with me in confidence he bids me say eay that he holds general reyes in a deferential respect which he gives to no other living mexican he awaits an opportunity to operate cooperate co alth you this news was to flores the best hd be lidd bad heard beard since he be organized the junto assurances had come from many sources of support to reyes who in reality occupied an enviable position in the hearts odthe mexican people pe oDle dut but herrera the madero general eral who had been re regarded gardea asairy as firmly against theral his coming over was too good to believe the doctor embraced the young man according e ao to the mexican custom and kissed him first on one cheek and then on the other thus did a special agent of the united states become a member ot of a mexican revolutionary junta through gard the department of justice JustIc 6 soon had all the particulars of the tho reyes revolution as faras far as they were known to the el paso junta it knew th that atthe the aged general had been promised support from many sources bourdes sour des that he had been provided with con Bid erable sums of money that arms had been bought in hundred lots from dealers all alon along agthe the border that these were being doled out to individuals who were to cross over overl tho border at a given time and form the nucleus of tho the revolution in et el paso some two hundred men had already been thus provided these men were being maintained at boarding houses about town and were being handed regularly small sums of money gard met every day with the members of the junta and talked over the details detail of these matters jn in the little building b which had no 1 windows and which stood back of doctor Docto flores house gard also met the individuals who were the tre fire brands of the revolution red shirt pena was always thole there and was steadily engaged in smuggling ammunition across the border the pock marked anarchist comacho was maturing turin ghis his spectacular plans pla na senorita josefa calderon slim as a cactus came now and then with a message from reyes or orozco often she brought large sums sum s of money gard once accompanied her to juarez and used all his charms in an effort to develop a alove love lovo affair with her but in vain he afterward learned that she was mourning a sweetheart who had died in fighting madero and was devoting herself to this cause inhofe in chopo of revenge toward the end of december the plans for the revolution grew near maturity general reyes was to slip out of san antonto antonio and across the rio grando grande where he was to pick up his rec recruits aults enlisted on the american side and those on the mexican side who had promised to join with him at the psychological moment pena of the red shirt and comacho the anarchist ar chist cereto were to put on performances so spectacular as to attract the attention of the world comacho had his dynamiting plans well developed personally he intended to place a bomb under the international bridge at el paso an associate was to perform the same service A I ASPY AT HE IS AN AGENT OF THE perfidious UNITED STATES 1 with relation to tho the american customs house at nogales and the consulate at la laredo redo wis was toba to be blown up while comacho was performing these outrages red shirt pena was to be busted busied tn in art of murder the sheriff of el paso juan jand and archie dobbs were mere the men ainest whom the capacities of pena as s a killer were to be directed but failing these he was to io run amuck and do whatever damage he could any v representative of the american army any madero official was to baregard lie regarded as a fair mark the object was to at least create a great sensation to advertise shenew the new revolution and possibly to bring about inter intervention v antion at any rate the bord border 1 er should be awakened with ill all this in hand fiand the united states authorities were ready to act they wanted h however however to time their coup in such a way as to have bave the post most discouraging effect possible pos elble upon the revolutionists with this idea lu in mind they postponed making arrests until the last moment the revolutionists were e to betoken betaken be taken into custody by captain hughes of the texas rangers there were some fifteen of the active plotters that should be ba arrested and t the ranger force was the best beat fitted agency on the ahe border to dope booe with these every man was waa known to the llan jera and all were being kept pretty afu located the manner mannar of making these arrests arresta was peculiar to this cowboy police 0 of the southwest the plan was that N when h en the time to strike should come operations should begin at the little building without windows where the ringleaders ring leaders of the revolutionists gathered these should be arrest arrested 0 none being allowed to escape and give the alarm they should all bo be put ut into a wagon with nith white canvas such as Is common in the southwest and which would attract no attention in passing through the si streets this wagon with two or three rangi rang ors ers aboard and others riding carelessly hearit ne near arIt it should then drive about HI el pa paso 0 picking up a man here and another there until all those wanted were under the white canvas so was it planned that a clean sweep of the revolutionists should be made in a manner of raid that might seem queer to those accustomed to the methods of metropolitan police but which was waOn intended tended to accomplish its purpose but as far as billy gard was concerned the raid came near coming too late the position hofgard ot of gard the american special agent in revolution headquarters as a mexican conspirator was never one of especial espell al security there was the danger of his bis identity being foun found dout out which not only spoil his case but might result in personal violence being done him as his associates were not men ddn to trifle with there was the ahe difficulty of getting his information to archie dobbs and thence to the department part ment at washington without this th is connection being discovered finally I 1 there was his part to be played in the arrests I 1 eventually the time came to strike general reyes had disappeared from san antonio and was believed to be fleeing for the mexican border the order was issued from washington to intercept and arrest any of the reyes party that might be found at any border points the trap was to be sprung at atel el paso faso on that morning december billy gard reported at windowless the building at ten doctor Docto flores was there and was soon joined by comacho the dynamiter presently a ranchman from sonora was admitted senorita calderon was expected from san antonio with additional funds and pena and other moving spirits were to dr drop in Is there any news from general herrera doctor flores asked |