Mexican Manhunt

Last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 14), one Francisco Fimores, Mexican rancher of Douglas, Ariz., led into Mexico a small force of men. He sought Apache Indians who, in 1926, had killed his wife, kidnapped his son. Last week, U. S. soldiers and cattle men gathered along the Mexican frontier, prepared an expedition to rescue Mr. Fimores, from whom no word has been received. A member of his band, however, had been found alone and delirious. It was feared that the avenging band had been surprised and slaughtered.

While the Governor of Sonora, Mexico, had given permission to the Fimores raid, no statement was issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood.