Word: sharratt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Late despatches added little to this tale of wanton slaughter. Only three other passengers were mentioned, all of whom escaped: Mr. Russell, a mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...