Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — RAID AMMUNITION SMUGGLERS [ARTICLE]

RAID AMMUNITION SMUGGLERS

Mexican Band Routed by Border Patrol —Two. Captured. El Paso, Tex., June 29.—A cavalry patrol interrupted a band of thirty Mexicans engaged in carrying ammunition across the Rio Grande at Rocky Ford, seven miles east of her;e. Two of the Mexicans were caught, but the others escaped into Mexico. The ammunition dropped by the smugglers, ’ .some of it” in the middle of the river, is being guarded by the soldiers. The sergeant in charge telephoned Fort (Bliss for re-enforcements.