Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1914 — DEPICTING LIFE OF VILLA [ARTICLE]

DEPICTING LIFE OF VILLA

Moving Picture Reels Make of the War Leader of Mexican Constitutionalists,

Here is the general synopsis of the war film entitled “The Life of General Villa:’’ “Years ago Pancho Villa was a young rancher living alone with his pretty young sister and doing well. One day a young lieutenant of the Mexican federal army came to that locality with another young officer. The lieutenant became smitten with Villa’s sister, and with the aid of his companion abducted her and ruined her. The sister, after telling her brother, died and Villa journeyed to the garrison town and killed the lieutenant, but the companion escaped. Villa then sold his ranch and with a small body of men escaped to the mountains, vowing warfare on all mankind in revenge for the death and ruin of his sister. He became a bandit, and by meeting and defeating other bandits became the chief of a great band, the terror of the northern part of Mexico. He was particularly sore at the federal government, and when the revolution broke out he sided with the revolutionists and their leader. Sallying forth from the mountains, he blew up train loads of federals Shd met and defeated every federal army that was sent against him, captured town after town and city after city. At the last great and decisive battle he meets face to face the federal officer who had assisted in the abduction of his sister and helped to start him on his road to banditry and outlawry. He kills the federal officer with his own hands on the battlefield. The federals are defeated and Villa is finally proclaimed president of the republic of Mexico — he who was once an outlaw with a price upon his head.”