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...word in quotation marks. For although it was probable that avowed Communists were among the bandits, they carried no Communist banners, posted no Communist proclamations, set up no Communist government. Numbering 10,000 they picked this city of over 500,000 souls clean of loot, collected a ransom of 700,000 Shanghai dollars ($264,000), moved on to attack Hankow, "Chicago of China" and Kuling, mountain resort...
...coast State of Nayarit with an interpreter-guide, Mr. Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...
From four directions came moves to liberate Prospector Bristow. With Secretary of State Stimson in London, lesser officials of the U. S. State Department protested to Mexico City. Prospector Bristow's son, ''Obie," mistrusting officialdom, withdrew $15,000 in gold from two Texas banks to ransom his father. Largely because of the football prowess of son "Obie" at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Times sent one Merle Blakely, staff writer, to assist and report the bandit hunt. From the railhead of the only railway in the State of Nayarit the Mexican Government hastily sent out a squadron...
...town of Tepic grew a much more definite story that Bandit Cruz Delgado was demanding more money. When Prospector Bristow rode into Ahuacatlan on his donkey last week the true story became known. "Obie" Bristow had bargained with mysterious agents of Bandit Delgado for over a week. A ransom of $5,000 was finally agreed upon and paid. Followed the prisoner's release...
...escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some of them got to be pretty good. The last night after the ransom was paid they killed a turkey and gave me a party. The mosquitoes, though! They were something fierce...