Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1912 — Rebel and Federal Meet After Battle [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rebel and Federal Meet After Battle

KANSAS CITY.—A message telling how Tracy Richardson, a Kansas City boy, met the Mexican federal soldier who fired the bullet that wounded him at the battle of Villa Lopez, was received the other day from Addison Hughes, a correspondent with the rebel army of General Orozco. The dispatch, whleh is dated from Jiminez, Chihuahua, Mexico, reads as follows: This morning a wounded federal was laid on an adjoining cot. The federal prisoner was moaning. Richardson awoke, peered through the dim candle light and said In Spanish: “Hello, are you badly hurt?” “Pretty badly,” answered the man. “Federal or rebel?” queried Richardson. “Federal,” replied the other. “And you?” "Rebel,” said Richardson. ‘Tve A bullet through my body from a federal gun. I wish I had the man here who topped me over.” “What were you doing when yon fell?” “Working a machine gun.” “By the adobe house to the right of the church?” queried the federal. “That was the position. How did you know?” Richardson asked. “How did I know,” the federal asked. “Well, I gudss I’m the hombre who got you. After I located you,

some one of the rebels got me twfovonce through the head and once through the stomach. It’s all off with me.” ‘ “I’m practically well,” said Richardson. ‘Tm sorry, old man. I’m sorry.** He reached over and grasped the federal’s hand. "Brace up and get well." Then he lay back and went to sleep. When Richardson awakened the sun was up. He turobd toward thf federal and greeted him: “Buenos dias.” There was-no reply. The federal was dead. N Richardson, who, with a machine gun, had held a dangerous position, single-handed, against the federal* at Villa Rose, was found after the battle, crawling toward the town, a bullet hole in his chest. He has been called the hero of Jimlnez. Richardson Is 23 years old.. Hit father, the late A. R. Richardson, was a well-known contractor in Kansas City. His mother now Is living In Lamar, Mo.