Ochoa,
who is now the president of the International Airship Company, of Paterson, N. J. , was
believed to have died in an asylum in Newark, in 1895, following his release from
Kings county prison, in Brooklyn, in which he had spent a two and half year sentence
for having violated the United States neutrality laws in attempting to smuggle arms across
the Rio Grande to his army, then operating in Chihuahua. He says he gave out the news himself that he had died
because the Mexican government had a standing offer of fifty thousand dollars for him as
long as Porfirio Diaz was in the presidential chair. |