This was about the time of VIlla's career in Mexico. You might as well say there wasn't any law in that country. The Mexican bandits run as they pleased. If they took a notion to move a rancher or anybody, they just naturally killed them and took possession. A good many white settlers was killed and also many of the higher type Mexicans with money. Them bandits didn't have any love for a white man. They just killed them to watch them die. The Mexican rebellion started about nineteen eight. The bandits had got pretty well-organized by the time we struck Mexico in 1911. I was going on 17 then.
The last Rustler, The Autobiography of Lee Sage, Little, Brown & Co., 1930, p111.
