The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-18
DIAZ'S ASSAlLANT KILLED.
LFNCHED BY a MOB IN MExICO'S
CITY HALL.

His BODY Hacked aud slashed with More Than
= Hundred stiiettoes-Guards brushed Aside
and Doors KnocEed to spiinters-som AR
rests ana . Trial Likely TO Follow Them.
CRY OF MEXICO. Sept. l7.-Betwoen l and .
o'clock this morning Arnulfo Arroyo, who at
tempted to kill President Diaz yesterday. was
hacked to death by a mob in the City Hall. The
prisoner received almost countless wounds, in
ficted by sharp stilettoes.
Yesterday afternoon Arroyo was examined by
the Chief Of Police, Col. velasquoz, in order to
learn his antecedents. his motive in the assault
on Gen. Diaz. and. II possible. whether or not, as
broadly limited, there was a conspiracy to take
the life Of the President. When Arroyo was
taken into the office OF the Chief of Police yes
terday he was In a desperate condition. His
clothes were torn. he was hatless. and his long
hair was dishevelled. His face was distorted
with passion and pain, but he betrayed no signs
Of fear.
Later Arroyo began to act like n mailman, and
finally worked himself up to such a frenzy that
1t became necessary to put him in a strait.
jacket. He frothed at the mouth. and Kissed
out that he had intended to kill Gen. Diaz, and
wanted TO do 1t with the Presidents own SWORD.
Arroyo became exhausted toward the evening.
Food was given him, and later the strait.
jacket was removed 30 he could sleep. the inten.
ton being to continue the investigation early
this morning.
Accounts vary as to the number OF l~ynchers.
but from 100 to 200 men must have entered. tho
City Hall. The mob gathered quickly and the
members OF 1t sprang upstairs like wild beasts.
They broke through the doors and rushed to tho
front room. whore the assassin was confined.
The doors offered little resistance. being Of
wood with glass panels.
The glass was shattered in a moment, and tho
next second both doors leading to the prisoners
cell were brokon into splinters. The lynchers
rushed pell.mell into the small apartment in
their anxiety to seize the criminal. Maurio
Sanchez, an officer. and Antonio Milnez, a police
man. attempted to stay the advance Of the mob,
at first pleading in the name OF law and order,
and then threatening to kill the invaders, but
they were thrown aside. each receiving painful
bruises.
The lynchers. with drawn stilettoes, rushed
upon their victim. So eager were they to plant
their blades in the prisoners body that many
narrowly escaped the thrusts aimed at Arroyo.
Those who failed to stab the prisoner while he
was alive satisfied their thirst for vengeance by
hacking his ~lifeless body to pieces. Not a MEM
Der Of the mob left the hall until he had thus
shared In the execution.
Special Ohicer Cabrera. who was taking q nap
in his ofice when tho mob entered the hall, was
soon aroused. and. although he acted without
fear. he was powerless to check the lynchers.
After being assaulted repeatedly he ran to a
window and fred his pistol for assistance. A
number Of policemen responded tardily and
arrested about twenty persons after the lynch.
ers had left the City Hall. and there is doubt
whether those arrested had participated in the
lynching. They will DO subjected to q thorough
examination In the police station in Callevenero
tomorrow. and. II sufficient evidence is adduced
upon which to hold them for trial. they will be
confined in jail upon the charge of murder.