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Zapata revolver auctioned in San Antonio Two children’s bodie
SAN ANTONIO (AP)—A silver
.44-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver
believed to have belonged to Mexi
can revolutionary Emiliano Zapata
sold for $20,000 in a weekend auc
tion in Waco from the collection of
Bexar County collectors Donald and
Louise Yena.
By the auction’s close Saturday
evening, the collection of about 300
pieces — including rare rifles, pistols,
clothing and folk art — sold for more
than $300,000.
Robert O. Isham of Decatur had
the high bid for the gun, which bears
the inscription “E. Zapata” and is
widely believed to have been his
sidearm. The item was one of the
most sought-after pieces of Mexican
Revolution and Old West-era an
tiques that made up the sale.
It is hard not to wonder how
many people ended up on the
wrong end of Zapata’s revolver be
fore he was betrayed and killed 81
years ago.
“People have sort of awakened to
the fact that Mexican history is
closely related to our history,” Don
ald Yena said.
The Revolution, especially, is be
ginning to draw the interest of col
lectors, who for the first time are see
ing items come into the market that
lingered in private collections for
years, Yena said.
Such was the rare but massive
lithograph of dictator Porfirio Diaz,
who was overthrown by Francisco
Madero.
Though the piece was torn
through Diaz’s face, several collectors,
including San Antonian Louis Mar
shall, bid against each other at the A&S
Antique Auction to become its owner.
The picture, which finally sold for
$700, did not go to Marshall, but pro
fessional collectors like him know that
at auctions like this the competition is
stiff because the memorabilia is au
thentic and valuable.
“You know if the Yenas
bought it, it’s collectible,” Mar
shall said. “If you see what
they’re collecting, pretty soon that
will be rare.”
In the same case as the handgun
believed to have been Zapata’s was the
single-action Army revolver known to
have belonged to Judge Roy Bean.
Bean’s gun alone sold for $36,000,
bought by Donnie and Elaine Roberts,
collectors who called in their bid from
Houston.
With that revolver, an entire collec
tion — including photographs and an
arrest warrant for the judge — went up
for hid.
Altogether, the additional items
connected to the man known as
“the Law West of the Pecos” drew
more than $5,000.
found in trunk of cai
ABILENE (AP) — Police on
Saturday found the bodies of two
children inside a closed trunk of a
car parked in front of their Abilene
house.
Authorities said that 6-year-old
Dylan Nagle and 4-year-old Kelly
Boisjolie, a brother and sister, died
after being in the closed trunk ap
parently for hours. Officials sus
pect the pair — and a pet kitten —
died in the trunk from a combina
tion of the near-100-degree heat
outside and lack of oxygen.
A teenager who wasstayi
at the house discovered the bn
ies. The children’s mother#
home when the bodies were!
covered, said Sgt. Mike Pern
the Abilene Police Departmeit
Perry said there is noei
deuce so far that any®
placed or locked the chilli
in the trunk.
Police are investigating
circumstances leading toa
deaths but have not madei
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