The Archive · 1928

Obregon Was Murdered

Mexico City, July 30.

According to a voluminous police report, the recent assassination of the President Elect of Mexico, General Obregon, was inspired by 'a casual remark made by a nun in the presence of the assassin, Leon Toral, to the effect that the religious situation in Mexico would be solved by the deaths of General Obregon, President Galles, and the 'The assassin is very tra Me is convinced that he ix gain: to Heaven, where he believes he will meet' his victim, who was "fundamentally a good man."—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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