Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-23
/ MEXICAN CHIEF
BRUTALLY SLAIN
BY THOSE WHOM
HE BEF FR|ENDED
President of Mexico Is AS
SaSSinated, According to
Reports Received BY Rev.
oIutionary Agents.
0BREG0N SCATHINGLY
DEN0UNCES THE CRIME
Tells CarranziStaS That They
Could Have Saved Life of
Their Leader If They Had
Done Their Duty.

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4" Mexico City, May 22-After o
" conference today between .
" Generals Obrcgon and Pablo .
" Gonzalez. commission was .
o named to proceed 10 the scene o
I: of CairInla' death to iuyes- .
% tigate and report. .
" ohregon named Attorney .
=" Rogue Estrada and Comno- .
=" dorc lli'ario Rodriguez NAL o
9 plea. Gonzalez named Attor- 9
Q ney Aquilcs E!orduy and Gen. .
Il" Fortunato Zuazua. o
" The permanent commission .
&" of the national congress met %
" this morning To choose pro- Q
" viSional president. claiming o
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4" conflict is possible as other o
o members of the congress, rec .
" o2nlzing the Aeua Prieta plan. o
Q think they should have the o
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NN MORNING JouRhAL ssEcIAL LHAsG1 u,sWl
El Paso' Tex. Nav 22 tbv the
Associated Press. } President Car
rama of Mexico, was assassinted hy
his own men. according to n tele.
gram from Gen. Alvaro Obreeon.
OF Mexico City. ,eceived by revolu-
ttonary agents here today.
General 0hreeon's mesenga to
Roberto Pesqueira financial agent
of the do faeto government here.
said.
Headquarters Gen. Obreeor.
"MeNico city. May 2S, 1920.
'E Y. Pesqueira, Ciudad Juare2.
Chihuahua: ..-
Il am transmitting the following
message received yesterday from
Saxa: s.
I've are wiring today Gen.
Pablo Gonzalez the following,
- Early this morning at the town
of Tlaxcaltenango, the presid ant of
the republic, Nenust,ano Carranza,
was made a prisoner and cowardly
assassinated nj the cry of Viva
Obregon' by Col. RodOlfo Herrero
and his men. violating the hospi-
tally that had been offered him by
Herrero.
ncnounccs Carran2istas.
Obregon answered this message
in scathng terms. He dec ared
that if the CarranZa followers who
signed the MESA ge, numbering
more than thirty men and includ-
ing Juan Barragan, chief Of aft:
Ignacio Bonillas, former amba ssa-
dor to the United States, whose
candidacy for the presidency of
Mexico brought on the latest revo-
luton. and other prominent lead
ers, had died defending their chief
you would be at rest with
your consciences and escaped the
shame of your cowardliness." Obre-
gon told the Carranzistas they
were sufficient In number to 'if
they would have done their duty"
II, as you state, he was assassi-
mated.
"On repeated occasions" said
Obregon, President Carranza was
notified that every guaranty would
be given him IL he would be willing
to leave the danger zone, but he
refused to accept this offer because
he undoubtedly considered IL an
undignifiod act of a man Of honor
to save himself. leaving his conn
panlons in danger. This act of Cas-
rama revealed the dignity and
goodfellowship which you failed to
appreciate.
First report of the assassination
of Carranza was filed by Obregon
at Mexico City Friday night, but
the message did not reach here un-
til today.
Message From Hernandez.
Have Just received the follow
ing message from Huauchinango.
state of Puehla, signed by Col. l..
Hernandez:
General Mariel advises me
from Villa Juare2 that the troops
of the ex-federal officer Rodolfo
Herrero, killed President Carranzl
at ! a. m. at place called Tlaxcal-
tenango. There were found six or
seven more bodies of the men n
CarranZa's party. II Is not stated
who these men might be, l will
| wire details later. Roberto Herrero
surrendered last March to General
Mariel and had been an officer un-
| der General Palaez."
Revolutionists today were eager
in their attempts to show Carranza
was not killed by revolutionists.
but by his own men, The de-
partment of propaganda and in
| formation at Nogales sent mes
sage to the commercial agent of
the de facto government here urg-
ing that the news be given the
press with particular stress on the
fact that the happening occurred
| far away from the field Of opera
| ton OF our forces"
From the wording of the Obre-
| gon telegram skepticism was ex-
pressed here by many persons In
close touch with the revolution
concerning the affiliations of Her
rerro. The anxiety of the Mexicans
on the point was laid to the con-
Germ over what the attitude of the
United States might be II the re-
ported assassination was laid 10
revolutionlsts.