Train Bandits Find No Mercy.
TRAIN BANDITS
FIND NO MERCY
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Mexican Troops Wiping Out
Gang That Slew Fifty
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Federals Dealing Swift
Justice to Prisoners
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Government Determined to
Teach Stern Lesson
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[BY CABLE AND ASSOCIATED PRESS]
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 12.--Federal troops today continued a ruthless campaign of extermination against the bandits who held up the Guadalajara-Mexico City passenger train Saturday night and murdered an estimated total of fifty persons, including passengers, train crew and train guards. Death is being dealt without mercy to the bandits and their accomplices alike.
The War Department issued a laconic communique today saying that an unknown number of the bandit gang have been killed in a fight and eight persons executed, but behind this, according to dispatches from other sources, there is a story of swift and uncompromising retribution by the Federal soldiers.
A detachment of troopers belonging to the Fiftieth Cavalry trailed the main group, including about twenty bandits, in a northeasterly direction from Los Reyes,
Michoacan into the State of Jalisco. The bandits were surrounded at a ranch called Quitupan. There the cornered outlaws fought desperately and most of them died fighting. Eight were taken prisoner and said to have confessed participation in the robbery and were summmarily executed. Loot from the train was found on every one of the bodies.
Federal troops are still pursuing straggling groups of the marauders and appear to be executing all who are shown to have been accomplices in the robbery, whether they participated actively or not. It is said that the government is determined to give such a lesson that outlaws will fear to attempt any repetition of the outrage
Source:
Unknown, "Train Bandits Find No Mercy, Mexican Troops Wiping Out Gang That Slew Fifty," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Wednesday, 13 January 1926, p. 11.
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