The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-31
ASSASSIN OF
OBREG0N GIVES
POLICE STORY
Religious Fanaticism Caused
Him to Slay Mexican
President Elect
ACCESSORIES NAMED
Police Hold Catholic Nun and
Seek Man Who Inspired
Murder
ACCESSORIES NAMED

Mexico City. July 31.-(AP)
Sister Conception Acevedo de 10
Lata is held in . cell at police
headquarters, charged with hav-
ing induced Jose de Leon Toral
to commit murder. Sister Con.
cepcion, who is about 80 years
old and wears her hair bobbed,
is mother superior of the con-
vent in which Toral is alleged
by police to have conceived the
idea of assassinating General
Alvaro Obregon. Newspapers
today quoted her as having told
reporters at police headquarters:
Il hope soon to be executed.
I want to be punished"
Sister Conception did not ad-
nit that she had influenced
Toral to slay the president elect.
She was quoted as having
added:
"God must have wanted IL;
otherwise he would not have
permitted the crime"
Mexico City, July 31.-tF-Polics
in a formal statement assert that {
Catholic nun, Conception Acebeds
de la Lata, and a man named Man
uel Trejo fostered q belief in tn,
mind of Jose de Leon Toral that HI
could solve the religious problem!
of Mexico by staying General Aware
Obregon. Toral claims that he alone
was responsible, although he. sale
the police statement was correct.
Sister Conception and sixteel
other nuns, who were arrested q,
Guadalupe Hidalgo, were being hel,
today for further examination
Toral said he had visited them FIRE.
quently in recent months, but as
serted that they were ignorant o1
his desire to kill Obregon.
Police headquarters announced TO-
day they would pay q reward o1
$1,000 for the arerst Of Manue
Trejo, who is believeS-to have flel
to the United States. He VA,
named as the man who gave Tora
the pistol with which he killet
Obregon. Describing the ALLEGED
connection Of the nun and Treio will
the assassination, the police state
ment said:
Didn't Like Bomb
"Toral disliked the idea of thu
bomb attack upon Obregon last No.
vember. But afterwards he beRar
to believe that the killing o1
Obregon could bring about the solu.
tion Of the religious question, al.
though Toral had not then selected
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 at the
head Of the so-called Schismatic
Mexican Catholic church which de.
nies the authority Of the Pope q
Rome.
The statement next recited how
Toral, posing as . photographer
when Obregon made his triumphal
entry into Mexico City on Sunday
July Is, was at the railroad station
with his pistol ready. He was un-
able to get close enough to shoot be-
cause Of the crowd.
Makes No Defense
After the police statement had
been read to newspapermen Toral
answered their questions in the Of
flee Of the Chief Of Police General
Rios Zertuche. He was pallid and
hollow checked but physically sound
and according to his own statement
perfectly sane"
II have no defense and will make
no defense in my trial." the assassin
"The killing Of Obreeon wa. 4
good deed. l expect to 60 to heaven.
! think Obregon will Be saved too,
he was fundamentally . good man.
II expect to die for killing Obre=
gon. ! give my life for his.
"The religious question, the re-
Iieious question only, absolutely
nothing else caused me to kill Obre-
gon because I consider him intellec-
tual)y responsible for the Mexican
governments religious policy and
everything else in Mexico.n