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APPENDIX
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May 6. Armed Mexicans broke into Santo Tomas station, Aguila Co., and robbed station engineer of personal effects and money worth $500.
May 12. Armed Mexicans robbed camp of everything, making drilling impossible for a week; La Corona Co., victim.
May 12. Soldier got drunk and went to sleep in tent; other soldiers finding "body," declared he had been murdered and were getting ready to lynch superintendent when drunken man was awakened.
May 16. Paymaster of Cortes Oil Corp., held up by pirates off island of Juana Ramirez in Tamiahua Lagoon; payroll equivalent to $10,547.50 in U. S. coin taken.
May 16. Launch R. C. Holmes of the Texas Co., held up and robbed of 30,000 pesos in Tamiahua Lagoon.
May 17. Rex Underwood stood off gang of armed Mexicans with revolver, refusing to give up valuables.
May 22. Rex Underwood fired upon from ambush; forced to desert horse and $1,040 tied in sack to pommel of saddle. Saved life by taking to bush.
May 18. Tepetate station, Mexican Gulf Oil Co., again held up and robbed.
May 20. The sum of $103 in Mexican gold currency was stolen by bandits from the camp office of the Cia. Metropolitana de Oleoductos S. A. at lot No. 9 Tepetate.