Oscar Creighton

An Interview with Francisco I. Madero

Just before the battle of Casa Grandes, journalist Timothy Turner finally tracked down  Francisco I. Madero, walking across the border to Guadalupe Victoria.    Just as Turner was introduced to Madero by Oscar Creighton, the dashing Giuseppi Garibalidi charged in hell for leather to report a federal column out of Juraez, cutting short the hard-won interview.   Turner piled onto a fleeing rebel supply wagon, with the wry observation:

On The Death of Oscar Creighton

The First Battle of Bauche

Oscar  Creighton took a mauser bullet to the back of the head and so ended his filibustering career.    Having left behind the pleasures of clerking for a New York brokerage firm, due to certain inconveniences, he went on to the greater joys of stealing federal trains and blowing up bridges in the name of Francisco Madero.  

On the Road to Casas Grandes

How ironic that the most painful physical suffering of one’s life might also be the most enjoyable as well. This is how journalist Timothy Turner related the circumstances of his meeting with Francisco Madero. Turner had worked hard to gain the confidence of the Mexican Revolutionaries in El Paso, and was angling to ask some questions of the great idealist, Madero:

Timothy Turner, gypsy love and "dynamite" Oscar Creighton

Journalist Timothy G. Turner was nursed in a newsroom and when he grew up, found that the only smell he liked better than printer’s ink was the sawdust and spit of a barroom. His father, Willis Hall Turner, “my pal” as Tim called him, died in March 1906 when Tim was a teen, after which he “was obliged to go to work in earnest” as a reporter, for the Grand Rapids Herald. His role as a cub reporter on the prowl for stories landed him in a gypsy camp where he was smitten by a young gypsy queen who taught him some of her Canaries Island Spanish.

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