An agent of the Mexican Government arrested at Monterey, State of Nuevo Leon, one Jesus Salas, member of the State Legislature of Durango. Upon arrest Salas confessed that he had organized the group and planned and executed the killing of Francisco Villa, (TIME, July 30.)
The group—recruited from the small town of El Oro, state of Durango—had sworn to avenge losses inflicted on their families by Villa when he captured El Oro. They rented a building in Parras, from which they watched and waited for Villa for months. Once his life was saved by...
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