Kill 17 To Avenge Girls.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 7, 1913:
Americans Slay Mexicans Who Assaulted Farmer's Daughters.
    MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6.— Seventeen Mexicans have paid with their lives for maltreating daughters of Matthew Gourd, an American farmer, near Tampico, last Monday. American farmers participated in the exaction of the penalty, according to information regarded as reliable that was received here today.
    The Americans, joined by Mexican land owners in the district of Atascador, near Tampico, organized a posse, and rode into the hills in search of the band of "outlaws" who tied Gourd, robbed him, and attacked his two daughters in his sight. The band was found and defeated in a fight, and several of its members were captured.
    The seventeen men killed by the posse included those slain in the fighting and those put to death afterward.
    Mexican landowners joined with the Americans several weeks ago in the formation of a Vigilance Committee, but this was the first time the committee had taken the offensive against criminal bands.
    It is reported that twenty-four women of the Atascador colony have gone into Tampico as a precautionary move.