![]() It contacted Villa's last wife, 92-year-old Soledad Seanez de Villa, who lives in Ciudad Jua'rez, but she refused to give her authority.Ĭurrently, the group is trying to locate one of Villa's sons, Hipolito Villa, who lives in Mexico City, Hunter said. He said the group wanted to sue Skull and Bones, but needed some standing. "Then he added: 'We don't have it, but if you can prove we have it we'll give it to you,' " Hunter said. Davis, who described himself as a member of Skull and Bones, telephoned Hunter and said the society did not have the skull. He said he was unable to find a telephone listing for Skull and Bones and called the president of the university. "Williams told him to go to hell, that if he'd known that, would still be in a Mexican jail," Hunter said. The search began 18 months ago when the group read "Let the Tail Go With the Hide," in which author Terry Irvin tells the story of her father Ben Williams, who helped El Paso adventurer Emil Holmdahl out of Mexico after he had been accused of stealing the skull.īack in El Paso, Holmdahl confessed to Williams that he had indeed stolen the skull and later sold it to a Skull and Bones member. The remains of his body were later moved to Mexico City and buried there in the Monument to the Revolution. Rather than stay in the Northeast, the Bushes moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1948, and Bush worked as an equipment clerk for an oil company. After graduation, Bush chose to go out on his own. In 1926, grave robbers stole his skull and its whereabouts have been a mystery ever since. He was also a member of the Skull and Bones society, an exclusive secret society on campus. Villa, a bandit turned freedom fighter who led the last invasion of the United States mainland, was assassinated in Parral in northern Mexico in 1923. ![]() He explained that some members of the Wednesday Group, so called because its 10 to 15 members meet for lunch every Wednesday, are Mexican nationals from Ciudad Jua'rez who feel very strongly that the skull should be returned.Īn attorney and spokesman for Skull and Bones told Hunter the society did not have the skull, but added that if it could be proved it did have it, it would be returned.Ī letter to Vice President George Bush, who belonged to the club when he was at Yale, was not answered. ![]() "We want to retrieve the skull and, with great ceremony, return it to Mexico for burial," group member Frank Hunter, a retired lawyer, told Reuter by telephone from El Paso today. 10 - Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society possesses the skull of Mexican revolutionary hero Pancho Villa, according to a group of history buffs in El Paso who want it returned to Mexico for proper burial. ![]()
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