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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. |