The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-24
skilled by Traitors" Screams
Daughter in Greeting.
Travel and Battle Worn Loyal
Guard Brings Body.
SLAYERS ARE BEING PURSUED
The Revolutionary Government
Orders Probe of killing.
Ex-Chief, Surprised Asleep, Was
RiddIed With Bullets.

Mexico City. May PA dingy little
train of three wooden coaches today
brought the remains of Venustiano
Carranza, murdered president of Mex
leo. back to his former capital.
Drawn by a rusty. crippled engine,
the train slowly puffed its way into the
city at $3.50 a. m. on the narrow gauge
railway.
messed the arrival of the body. The
faithful watchers included most of the
foreign diplomatic corps. George
Summerlin. the American charge, was
conspicuous in a high silk hat.
The other watchers were chiefly
newspaper men. photographers. and
the mourning-clad members of the
dead presidents family. few men
from the Carranza regime, who had
not fled the capital with their chief,
were waiting. They also were dressed
in mourning.
The sun was just rising when rail-
road officials announced that the train
was approaching the station and
would stop at a crossing about 200
yards away.
When the word was passed about
the little crowd filed down the tracks
thru the early dawn.
As the train stopped at the crossing
a band of faithful Carranza soldiers,
who had acted as it's guards, clam
were ra gged, dirty and unsnaven from
days of the hardest kind of campaign
ing in the mountains of Puebla.
Reverently, sombreros in hand, the
soldiers lifted q rough wooden boX
. from one of the coaches. 1t was the
scasket containing the body of Car
ranza-draped in the national colors
of red green and white:
Loyal to the Very Last.
Then, as the run rose over the sur
rounding hills, the remnants OF the
orce t,roud Carranzista army-a tat
tered group of sleepless. hungry men,
lifted the casket solemniy on their
shoulders and started the last march
with their chief. 1t was an impressive
testimony Of loyalty. Followed by the
meurners, the little band moved Off
toward the Carranza residence. Dlplo-
mats and newspaper men brought up
tho rear.
At the residence the procession
broke up and the body was placed in
possession of the dead president
daughters, Julia and Virginia, who
were to arrange for the funeral. They
planned to hold it either this after-
noon or tomorrow. Burial will be IN
the Dolores cemetery-the cemetery
of sorrows.
General Murguia, Aguirre Berlanga'
Ignacio Bonillas and General Urqulz,
who rode to the city on the death
n.
Guadalupe, finishing the journey by
motor.
The brothers Cabrera were reported
safe in a town in Puebla-
AS the casket was lowered at the
train there was a bugle blast. The
old guard drew up in proud dignity
to present arms, forming a martial
column thru which the procession
started to the presidents home.
Some laborers and townspeople,
going early to their tasks. fell into line
as the procession wended its way thru
the quiet streets. They walked hats
in hand.
TRAITORS" Screams Daughter.
Once when the procession was
stopped while photographers snapped
the casket, an old Carranza soldier
muttered a quiet protest.
AS the procession neared the presi-
santial home with the gray outline OF
ChapulteDec castle-the official rest
dence of the rulers of Mexico-in the
background, the situation reached a
climax.
and four women leaned out. They
were the two daughters and two
nieces of the murdered president.
Suddenly the silence was pierced by
a woman's scream.
The traitors, they have killed him
she cried.
1t was Carranzas. daughter, Vir-
ginia.
Riddled With Bullets.
A telegram to General Obregor
gave additional details of the mur.
der. The deposed president, accord.
ing to this message, took the assassin
Rudolfo Herrero. into his confidence
because Herrero was familiar with
/, the Puebla mountains. Herrero preyi.
ously had sworn his loyalty
The murder occurred at a. m. Fri
day morning. this telegram said. Car.
rama was asleep when Herrero ant
his men opened fire. Friends of tn,
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