Word: cuernavaca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two out and then slit their throats. . . . After that I did a dash for the underbrush. . . . By this time the rest of the bandits began shooting. . . . I never dared to stop for a single moment. . . . I had a pretty good idea of the country and I made for Cuernavaca. I got there, all in, but safe" (Then motored to Mexico City...
...week-end passed swiftly amid those diversions which have made Cuernavaca attractive to many Americans-among them U. S. Ambassador Sheffield. As their car left on the return journey to Mexico City, the Zahlers, Mr. Ruff and Mr. Rosenthal were described as "laughing and chatting loudly...
Bandits. Just outside Cuernavaca the bandits waited. Wide belts, slovenly, half full of cartridges, maintained contact between their sleazy trousers and torn cotton shirts. Rain began to fall, soddened their straw sombreros, shortened their tempers. Crouching behind dripping bushes, they waited on either side of the Cuernavaca-Mexico City road at a place where the grade is so steep as to make crawling upward in low gear the only possibility...
Quick. Suddenly the screech of brakes was heard far up the hill. One Hedley V. Quick, an employe of the Anglo-American Bank of Mexico City, was slithering down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane...
...bandit leader twirled his revolver. "I, me, myself," he said, "will shoot the whole lot of you if you do not drive at once to Cuernavaca and give this note to the military commandant there. It is a short note. It reads: 'If we are pursued we will shoot our prisoner...