New Britain herald., 1924-11-17
TWO ID DIE FOR
 SHAVING AMERICAN
MeyiCanS Convicted of Murder,
 ing Mrs, Evans
B. The AgsooIa'ed Press,

B. The Agto"lR'ed lf'sF,
 Mexico City, Nov. 11.--Aleio Garcia and Francisco Fulz early yesterday morning were sentenced 10 death for the murder ot Mrs Resale Evans, the American born widow of British subject, who was killed last August near her haclen- da in the state or Puehla,
 The trial o' the two men had been in progress for several days in the town of Ducb'a, the verdic, was reached al midnight last fight after A day spent by Garcia and his coun- sel Tn an cndea'or 10 establish the fact that the bullet witch caused the death ot Mrs. Evans was fired by John strathaus, superintendent ot the Evans hacienda. in q moment ct nervousness white endeavoring 10 repei an attack made by bandits on Mrs Evans.
 The sentence was passed no,wlfh- standing the protest o' Cosme Za- trss recently dc0osed at attorney general. who charged that the trial was illegal because 0. his absence from court. The execution Of the sssassins Is expected to take place during the present week
 Many times during the trial Gar tts insisted on talking at length and denying his guilt. Counsel for de- ieuee Insisted that Mrs. Eyans's death wound was made by an ex- pansive bullet, which could not have ben fired from the rifles of either Of ths men on trial,
 Ms. Rosal!s Evans, formerly an Aner1cai citizen. was the widow of \ former president of the Bank of London In Mexico, an Enelishman who died five years ago Alter his 6eath she kept up their large ranch In the state of Puebla. For q long time she had opposed the efforts of the state which was trying 10 con- nscate her lands and 1t was this op- position which is alleged to have resulted In her murder by a group of armed bandits who shot her on August ,, in TeXmelucan, near her hiacenda Her assassins, 1t was re- ported at the time, were agrarians, who had been spudder on by anti foreign agitators in the Puebla re- zion. The official Mexican position was that the murder was solely for the purpose Of robbery.
 Her fight to hold her property caused such an extensive coitrover- sr tSst 1t resulted in the Mexican government obtaining the recall of the British Charge, H. c. Cummins.
 According to a statement given by Ambassador Charles B. Warren shortly after Mrs. Evans's death eX- plaining the designs of the Mexican government, Mrs. Evans originally had 1 166 hectares in her hacien- da and that from 1922 to 1923 sev- eral pieces of property had been taken as "ejidos." A presndential decree had, he said, been issued ex- propriating the entire property for an agricultural school, this action having been taken for the purpose of negotiating for the purchase of this land by the Mexican govern- nent. It was reported last June that the Mexican government had surrounded the hacienda with army regulars and hundreds Of guerilla warriors and that Mrs. Evans was gallantly defending her property She is supposed to have said, shortly before her death that she would rather de than surrender her estate. When Mr. and Mrs. Evans obtain ed the property it was a tangled wilderness, which they rapidly con- verted into one Of the beauty spots eF ffAe country.