Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-31
NUN Held AS
Aid IN DEATH
OFSLAINCHIEF
Sister, 81, Hopes For
Early Exc cution;
Fails to Deny a Part
In Plot

MEXICO CITY. July 31.-tF,-Sis-
ter Conception Acebedo de Ia Lata In
held in a cell at police headquarters
charged with having induced Jose do
Leon Toral to commit murder. Sister
Conception, who is about 80 years
old and wears her hair bobbed, is
mother superior of the convent in
which Torll il alleged b. police TO
have conceived the idea Of assassin-
ating General Alvaro Obregon. News
papers today quoted her as having
told reporters at police headquarters.
"A hope soon to be executed. I
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:
"God must have wanted it, other
wise he would not have permitted the
crime
MEXICO CITY, July 3l.-CRj--Po-
lice IN a formal statement assert that
a Catholic nun, Conception Acebedo
de la Lata, and a man named Manuel
Trelo fostered a belief in the mind
Of Jose de Leon Toral that he could
solve the religious problems or Mex
leo 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 az Guada-
lupe Hidalgo, were being held today
for further examination. Toral said
he had visited them frequently in 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 conIsction OF the nun and
Trejo with the assassination, the
police statement said:
"Toral disliked the idea Of the
bomb attack upon Obregcn last No
vember. But afterwards ne began To
believe that the killing Of Obregon
could bring about the solution of the
religious question although Toral
had not then selected himself to be-
the man 10 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 mt the
head Of the so-called schismatic
Mexican Catholic church which de-
nies the authority of the Pope st
Rome.
Practiced With Pistol
Eight days before Obregon ar
rived in Mexico City, Toral had de-
termined to kill Obregon because
Toral had become convinced that the
November bomb attempt against
Obregon had been justified.
"Toral was acquainted with a man
named Manuel Trejo. Trejo was one
Of those who caused the explosion
OF bombs in the chamber Of deputies
last May. Toral knew this. Toral
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 TO use the pistol.
loTti pTdCtlCeu Win MS HlNLuA ~
a canyon behind the Church Of
Guadalupe Cthe shrine Of Mexico's
patron saint. near Mexico CityD"
Claims Met Plotters
The statement next recited how
Toral, ros.ng rs Photographic
when Obregon made his triurnphal
entry into Mexico City on Sunday,
July Is, was ut 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 victims
home and other places.
The police statement asserted that
during this time Toral saw IreJo at
the residence Of a Catholic woman
which was ga rendezvous for Toral.
Trejo and the Catholic nuns who are
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