Words of reprobation are not enough, justice demands exemplary and complete reparation, and if the powers of earth do not take justice into their own hands, God will send fire from Heaven and will cause to disappear from the face of the earth the criminals and even their descendants.

A murder so cruel and premeditated can be punished in no other way.
"If the courts here should wish to punish the guilty persons it would not be a difficult task; the public points its finger at those who dyed their hands in the blood of the heroic soldier, and we shall set them forth here echoing the voice of the people.

The soulless instigator was Dimas Guzman.

The executioners were a certain Jose Guzman (alias Pepin, a nephew of Dimas) and Cayetano Perez." The matter was duly taken up in the courts, and Judge Blount himself tried the cases.
The judge takes a very mild and liberal view of the occurrence.

He says of it: [284]-- "Villa was accompanied by his aide, Lieutenant Ventura Guzman.