Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-05-24
CARRANzA ENT|CED
TO LONELY HUT AND
R|DDLED WITH SHOT.
DEAD PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
WAS NOT ABANDONED BY HIS
FRIENDS, SAYS CHIEF CT STAFF
IN PUBLIC STATEMENT Elk
PLANNING TRAGEDY.

Mexico City. May PA dispatch
received from luna Barragan. chief
of staff of President Carranza met his
death at the nands of Gen. Rodolfo
Horrors forces at TiaXcaIantongo.
The dispatch did not give the exact
date. The dispatch follows;
VILLA JUAREZ
State OF PueDla, May -.
ITO &c Aware Obregon:
Referring to your telegram Of this
date, Herrera joined the column at
Patla processing loyalty. Arriving
at TlaXcalantongo, Ilerrero offered
hospitality to Carranza, placing senti-
nels who knew the terrain At 400
O'Clock in the morning his men, abus-
ing the confidence imposed in them,
surrounded the shelter where Car
rama was sleeping, firing their rifles
| furiously into the hut. Everyone Of
fered resistance, although with the
natural decentralization caused by the
unexpected attack,
Gen Francisco Murgula fought val
-iantly in the obscurity tsemidark
ness) repulsing the traitors, who sur
prised the defenders when they were
leaving their shelters to attack the
enemy.
THE uneXpectedness of the attack
enables US to clear our military hon
or The defense was general. to such
an extent that the attackers were
forced to take sixty prisoners, among
them Mario Mendez. Pauline Fontes,
Gil Garias, Gen. Heliodoro Perez Col.
Che Gomez. Gen. Nillela and Carran-
"a s military aid
(Mendez was formerly director Of
the national telegraph lines. Fontes
was former director of national rail |
ways and Cenor Cartas was Carran- |
Za's private secretary
our conscience Is clear, Our grief |
for the death OF the President Is in
consolable We are satisfied that we |
did not abandon him for one moment |
THE few men wounded and dead |
is explained by the fact that the at
tackers planned their crime knowing |
the place where the President who |
was lseepng The loyalty and cour
age of the Presidents followers were |
useless against the treason OF those |
criminals"
The message was signed by Barra-
Montez Francisco de II. Maria and
gan and MarCiano Gonzales Federico
others.
Carranza and Gen. Molina were the
only persons killed according to
newspapers dispatches received here
today Gen. Rodolfo Herrera is quot !
ed by the dispatches as saying that
he only desired to kill Carranza and |
Ignacio Bonillas. Gen. Molina is said |
to have been mistaken for Bonilas.
The dispatches add that the three |
generals and two members of tho Car
rama cabinet who at first were re-
ported to have been killed have disap-
peared and probably are in hiding.
The flags on the American embassy
and all the other embassies and le-
cations We're placed a half staff when
the news of the assassination of Pres
dent Carranza arrived.
U. S. Watches Change.
Washington May Retrospective
political developments In Mexico this
week began today to overshad0w the |
killing of Carranza.
The Mexican congress meets in |
special session tomorrow to choose a
president an interim Adolfo de la |
Huerta chosen by the Sonora group |
month ago as the provisional presi- |
dent and Gen. Gonzales appear as
the outstanding candidates but the
chief concern OF the American ofFl |
Gals and business men having Mexi- |
can interests is not so much in the |
identity of the successful candidate |
as in the strnegnth of the co-opera- |
tive spirit to be manifested.
While doubt of the ability of any |
one chosen to restore the country to
a state of tranquility enough to war.
rant the holding of the regular cleo.
tons was expressed by both business
men and officials it was agreed the |
removal of Carranza ought to make
his task more simple.