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Devoutly the mothers of the two youths besought the Blessed Virgin to intercede with her Son, then besought the old mother of President Sanchez Cerro to intercede with her son. Still weak from loss of blood, punctured President Sanchez Cerro lay abed...
Precisely at 8 a. m. punctual Peruvian officers sat down with a great clinking of spurs and clattering of swords in Lima last week to do something about the jaunty 19-year-old youth who had punctured President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru with a bullet in church (TIME, March...
Arraigned before the court-martial, José Melgar grinned cheerfully, though he answered the officers' questions with respect. Since punctured President Sanchez Cerro was alive last week and not expected to die, Puncturer Melgar knew he had comparatively little to fear. To win popularity and votes almost any punctured public man will try to get his assailant off. Last week in Lima the court-martial sat from 8 a. m. until 4 a. m.-then sentenced to death both Puncturer Melgar and his accomplice, Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition...
Such "scratches," as he calls them, have never bothered President Sanchez Cerro. He has been scratched several times. Revolver in hand, he was just about to shoot it out with his assailant when a Presidential aide put his pistol to the youth's neck and fired...
Amid spouting blood and socialite shrieks, Youth Melgar fled the church clutching his neck, and President Sanchez Cerro walked out of the church with a great red stain on his vest. "I require no assistance," said the President, "but rush Colonel Rodriguez to a hospital." The Colonel, chief of the President's Military Household had (it then became known) received in his right thigh a second shot fired by Youth Melgar while the President was drawing his pistol...