Tiajuana, Mexico, Feb. 17.
Juan Morales, 24-year-old Army private saved by Federal troops from a lynch mob here on Tuesday after confessing to the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Mexican girl, was shot down by his former comrades here to-day.
He was removed from the military prison where Federal troops had guarded him from the lynch mob and driven to a military cemetery in a closed military van. At the Cemetery he was dragged from the van and allowed to "escape" As he ran toward the outskirts of the cemetery, Federal troops who had escorted the van to the cemetery fred a volley of shots at Morales kiling him almost instantly under the "law of the fugitive."
Police to-day continued to arrest alleged leaders of the mob of 1,500 men, women and children which attempted to lynch Morales after his capture on Tuesday. Three members of the mob were killed and fourteen others wounded when Federal troops were forced to fire into the crowd to end riotous demonstrations. The mob earlier had set fire to the Governor's mansion and prevented firemen from fighting the flames by engaging the firemen in street fights. Others _prostrated themselves in the streets to prevent te passing of fire engines.—United ress.
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