The Plan de San Diego by Charles H. Harris

Author:Charles H. Harris [Charles H. Harris III]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9780803264847
Publisher: Nebraska Paperback
Published: 2013-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

And Garza was also billed fifteen pesos for the Plan de San Diego seals used on some of the documents.31

On June 11, General Ricaut left Nuevo Laredo aboard a special train to capture Luis de la Rosa, who was reportedly incognito in Monterrey. Ricaut lamely asserted that he had been bamboozled, hoodwinked, and duped by de la Rosa into furnishing the sedicioso a special train to transport de la Rosa’s men from Monterrey to La Jarita. The press reported that “General Alfredo Ricaut, Carrancista commander at Matamoros, today admitted that he was tricked by a ruse of de la Rosa’s into furnishing a special train to bring his precious command of bandits from Monterrey to La Jarita, where they detrained and spread up and down the river. Ricaut was made to believe through fake telegrams a la Villa32 that 500 or 600 men were waiting to go north from Monterrey for railroad repair work.”33 This explanation was met with considerable skepticism. “It is not believed in military circles that General Ricaut has brought about the arrest of Luis de la Rosa at Monterrey. It is known Ricaut was in conference with De la Rosa at La Jarita two or three days ago, and that he would not arrest the bandit then, but would do so later, seems highly improbable, it is asserted.”34

The carrancistas claimed to have arrested de la Rosa as he was about to board a train for Matamoros and to have seized a quantity of weapons and ammunition that de la Rosa was carrying. On June 15, Consul Johnson reported that he’d had a talk with General Ricaut, who had just returned from Monterrey. Ricaut said he had arrested forty of de la Rosa’s men as well as de la Rosa himself, who was now in jail in Monterrey. Ricaut added that he had left his men on the border with instructions to arrest parties who could not give a good account of themselves.35 However, Ricaut issued a formal statement from Saltillo that de la Rosa was interned in the penitentiary in Saltillo, along with those who had accompanied him. In addition, he announced that the forces of General Carlos Osuna, recently assigned as the commander in Lampazos, had arrested a number of de la Rosa’s partisans between Lampazos and La Jarita; at Lampazos one of de la Rosa’s officers and six enlisted men had been arrested. They too were to be sent to prison in Saltillo.

The Americans were dubious about the report that de la Rosa had been arrested at Monterrey. “He has been entering and leaving Monterrey with apparent impunity for some time, and army officers here [at the Southern Department in San Antonio] have taken that as an indication that only feeble efforts were being made to capture him.”36

Agent Rogers, for one, was unimpressed with these reports of de la Rosa’s arrest. In September 1916, Rogers discussed changes of command in the Mexican Army on the border: “Referring to the changes in commandants noted herewith

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