Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-31
NUN Held as
AID IN DEATH !,
OFSLAINCHIEF
Sister, 81, Hopes Eor /
Early Exc cution,
Fails to Deny a Part
In Plot

MEAlCU CITY, July 3l.--tF1-Sls-
ter Conception Acebedo de In Lata is
held in cell at police headquarters
charged with having induced Jose de
Leon Toral 70 commit murder. Sister
Conception, who is about 81 years
old and wears her hair bobbed, is
mother superior or the convent IN
which Toral lis alleged by police to
have conceived the idea Of assassin
ating General Aware Obregon. News
papers today quoted her as having
told reporters at police headquarters.
Il hope soon TO be executed.
want to be punished"
Sister Conception did not admit
that she had influenced Toral to slay
the president-elect. She was quoted
as having added:
Sod must have wanted IN. other
wise he would not have permitted the
crime"
MEXICO CITY, July 3I.-CP,-Po-
lice in formal statement assert that
q Catholic nun, Conception Acebedo
de Ia Lata, and a man named Manuel
Trejo fostered a belief in the mind
OF Jose de Leon Toral that he could
solve the religious problems or Mex
ico By Staying General Alvaro Obre-
gon. Toral claims that he alone was
police statement was correct.
Sister Conception and sixteen 9th.
er nuns, who were arrested at Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, were being held today
for further examination. Toral said
ne had visited them frequently i'm re-
cent months, but asserted that they
were ignorant Of his desire to kill
Obregon.
Man Sought In u. =.
Police headquarters announced to-
day they would pay a reward OF
$1,000 for the arrest Of Manuel Trejo.
who Is believed to have fled to the
United States. He was named as the
man who gave Toral the pistol with
which he killed Obregon. Describing
the alleged connection of the nun and
Trejo with the assassination, the
police statement said:
"Toral disliked the idea OF the
bomb attack upon Obregon last No
vember. But afterwards he began to
believe that the killing or Obregon
could bring about the solution of the
had not then selected himself to be
the man to kill Obregon.
The nun Conception said in the
presence Of Toral that the difficult
ties Of the Catholics could be solved
by the deaths of President Gales,
Obregon and the patriarch NJ the
head of the so-called schismatic
Mexican Catholic church which de-
- M
Rome.
Practiced With Pistol
Eight days before ObreEor ar
rived IN Mexico City, Toral had de-
termined to kill ObreEon because
Toral had become convinced that the
November bomb attempt against
Obregon had been justified.
"Torsl was acquainted with n man
named Manuel Trejo- Trejo was one
or those who caused the explosion
of bombs in the chamber of deputies
last May. Toral knew this. Toral
met Trejo at the house or a woman
named Maria Louisa Pena Altimira.
"Trejo loaned Toral the pistol that
he killed Obregon with. Trejo also
gave Toral eighteen cartridges and
taught Toral how 90 use the pistol.
Ioral practiced with his picton IN
canyon behind the Church or
Guadalupe (the shrine of Mexico D
patron saint, near Mexiro City.)"
Claims Met Plotters
The statement next recited how
Toral. posing nv "A Photographic
when Obregon made his triumphal
entry into Mexico City on Sunday,
July 10. was at the railroad station
with his pistol ready. He was un-
able TO get close enough 20 shoot.
From Sunday until the following
Tuesday. when he assassinated
Obregon, Toral hung around the
Obregon headquarters, his victim y
home End other places.
The police statement asserted that
during this time Toral saw Trejo nv
the residence Of a Catholic woman
which was "a rendezvous for Toral.
Trejo and the Catholic nuns who are
Tr~rtt-rrI 49, rnyr three