Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 312.112F821/9.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, January 11, 1913.

Francisco Villa is reported in the local papers to be in El Paso.¹ Villa was a former Federal leader and ex-bandit who has been in prison in Mexico City for the murder of Fountain and for other anti-American activities, as a result of the Embassy’s representations last spring.

Wilson.

1. Confirmed on January 14 by the American Consul at Ciudad Juarez. File no. 312.11F821/10.