While pious Mexicans decorated the village church at Ahuacatlan in preparation for Palm Sunday last week, bearded, unkempt J. E. Bristow of San Angelo, Tex., rode into town on the back of an ass. A three-week bandit chase by Mexican Federal troops had ended. Somewhere in the mountains an able kidnaper and bandit chief named Cruz Delgado was dividing $5,000 in gold among his followers. Back in San Angelo Mrs. Bristow received a three-word telegram from her Oklahoma footballer son, Gordon ("Obie") Bristow: DAD WITH ME. Mrs....
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