Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-31
NUN HELD |NSP|RER
OF OREGON DEATH
Charged With Having In
duced Assassin to Com
NIT Murder.

MEXICO CITY. July 81 CP.-Sister
Conception Acevedo de Ia Lata is held
in cell at police headquarters charged
with having induced Jose de Leon Toral
10 commit murder Sister Conception,
Who is about 80 years old and wears
her hair bobbed, is mother superior of
he convent in which Toral is alleged
by police to have conceived the idea
of disseminating Gen. Aware Obregon.
Newspapers today quoted her as having
told reporters at police headquarters:
II 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, otherwise
he would not have permitted the
crime"
Reward for Arrest of Trejo.
Police headquarters announced today
they would pay a reward of 81 1000 for
the arrest of Manuel Trejo, who is be-
lieved to have fed to the United States.
He was named as the man who gave
ToraI the pistol with which he killed
Oregon. Describing the alleged con-
nection of the nun and Trejo with the
assassination. the police statement said:
floral disliked the idea OF the bomb
attack upon Oregon last November,
But afterwards he began to believe
that the killing Of Oregon could bring
about the solution OF the religious
question. although ToraI had not then
selected himself to be the man To kill
Obregon.
~The nun Conception said in the
presence of ToraI that the difficulties
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 denies the authority of
the Pope at Rome. ...
Loaned Pistol to ToraL
"ToraI 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 met.
Trejo at the house of a woman named
Maria Luisa Pena Altimira.
"Treio loaned Toral the pistol that
he killed Obregon with. Treio also gave
Toral Is cartridges and taught Toral
how to use the pistol
The statement next recited how Toral,
posing as photographer when Ohregon
made his triumphal entry into Mexico
City on Sunday. July Is, was at the
railroad station with his pistol ready
He was unable to get close enough to
shoot because of the crowd.
From Sunday until the following
Hk<>n ~fr at aF3n
Toral hung around the Obregon head
quarters. his victims home and other
places where he hoped to ind the.
President-elect. r.
Toral Explains Deed.
After the police statement had been
read TO about 30 Mexican and foreign
newspapermen Toral answered their
questions in the Office of the chief OF
police. Gen. Rios Zertuch. He was
paIlid and hollow checked, but physt-
calIy sound and according TO his own
statement perfectly sane" es%
II have no defense and will make
no defense in my trial." the assassin
said
THE killing of Obregon was a good
deed. I expect to go to Heaven. |
think Oregon will be saved. too; he
81 expect to die for killing Ohregon.
I give my life for his.
The religious question. the religious
question only, absolutely nothing else,
caused me to kill Obregon, because I
consider him Intellectually responsible
for the Mexican governments religious
policy and everything else IN Mexico"
Oregon Proposals Adopted.
Congress convened Yesterday in the
shortest extraordinary ~ession tn its his
tory in order to declare the constitution
amended in accordance with the wishes
of the assaSSiuated PreSident-elect. The
task was accomplished in two hours.
The amendments, which had. been
ratified by the majority OF state legis-
laturcS, give Mexico City and other
towns In the federal district a govern
ment by federal commissioners rather
than by elected mayors and aldermen,
reduce the size of the Chamber OF Depu-
ties by one-hah and place the appoint
ment of all judges in the hands OF tbs
President.