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Pancho Villa’s 1913 Wells Fargo Loot Deal Revealed
UC Berkeley researchers unveil letters showing Pancho Villa stole 122 bars of silver from a Wells Fargo train in 1913 and secretly agreed to sell most of it back to the bank for $50,000. The deal helped fund his North Division, with 93 bars returned and the rest allegedly kept or lost by his men.
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