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Is Pancho Villa's Finger for Sale in a Texas Pawn Shop?

A pawn shop in El Paso, Texas is selling for more than $9,000 the right index finger of Pancho Villa, one of the leading figures of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution.

"Years ago someone offered us this finger, and though we don't know if it's the real thing or not, we thought it was interesting and decided to preserve it here in our shop," David Delgadillo, manager de Dave's Pawn Shop in El Paso, said.

The body of the man born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula was decapitated three months after his death, but it is not known with any certainty whether one of his fingers was also cut off, according to Texas historian Fred Morales....
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