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Show VILLA LIKED CAR HE ESCAPED IN, BUT GAVE IT BACK TO MAN HE HELD TOR BIG RANSOM AND MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED Nc-wspap'TH in every suction of tin; country were just, recoil n I inp; the remark re-mark ;i !)!( experiences of Fred G. IIiiko f KiiKlo J 'ass, Tx., who was kidnaped liy Gen. Villa, held for $10,0111) and then mysteriously released re-leased on condition that lie "would keep his mouth shut," when a Detroit De-troit motor car manufacturer's representative rep-resentative arrived in Katfle Pass to consult, his local dealer. One of the .Inst persons the lietroiter met was IIiiko himself. He found him at the dialer's place of husiness making In Muiries about (lie delivery of a new ca r. "You see," said Hiiro, "Villa liked my car so well that lie decided to keep It. I've got to have another." And as Hugo's promise to the bandit ban-dit general required him only to keep secret the time, place and conditions under which he was released, he consented con-sented to narrate some of the hitherto hith-erto unpublished details of his unusual unus-ual episode. Villa and his band has finished looting the town of Musquiz, Coahulia, Mexico, when they visited the ranch of which he is manager, Hugo said. At the point of a revolver, revol-ver, Villa and five of his generals forced him to take the wheel of his touring car and drive them away. The federal army was in close pursuit and the bandits considered it advisable advis-able to give up their horses. "It was a rough haul," said Hugo. "There were practically no roads; the ruts wore deep, sand heavy and hills hai 1 to climb. Hut through it all the car performed beautifully. I could see that Villa and the others were admiring her. "Finally Villa said no other car had ever made that trip and wanted to know what the Dodge Brothers car sold for. I told him, $1,085, f. o. h. Detroit, which made it about $1,210 in Eagle Pass, to which Villa replied that this was a very moderate moder-ate price for such a car and that he had made automobile trips In Mexico, but at no time had he driven in a car that got along quite as well as this one." .Mr. Hugo added that the journey to the general's temporary 'rendezvous 'rendez-vous in the Pino Solo, in the state of Chihuahua, was over 150 miles of terrific roads and that the car arrived arriv-ed in godd condition. Several days after this interview, the Eagle Pass dealer was surprised to see Hugo again driving about in his same, familiar car. He learned with equal surprise that it had been mysteriously returned, just as Hugo had been mysteriously release!. Villa had sent word to him to be at an anc-ii.ted p'i;'at a given time. He wnt and found his car waiting him, wi'li the rebel general'? compliments. "Over 300 miles of that wild country coun-try and running just as lino as ever: not even the n. !3. monogram was scratched," smiled," Mr. Hugo, the ranchman, as he posed for a photograph. |