Word: concepcion
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...result of the ending of Mexico's religious troubles 80 nuns were ordered released from the penal islands of Tres Marias (The Three Marys). But Madre Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, "intellectual author" of the murder of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TiME, Sept. 3, et seq.) remained behind...
Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...
Since a cloud of witnesses testified (without retraction) that the convent presided over by Mother Superior Concepcion was a rendezvous for so-called "Catholic plotters," the examining official "said sharply...
...never even asked who they were," responded Mother Concepcion, "half the people of Mexico came, to attend religious services...
Though these developments convinced many persons of the immaculate innocence of Mother Concepcion, they comprised a mere incident in the broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...