Word: demetrio
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...reason is this: Recently Colonel Manuel Demetrio Torres, known as Chaparreras, was taken by U. S. officials in Laredo, Tex., and transferred across the Rio Grande to the Mexican authorities. He had fought with the Huertistas against Obregon and Calles. He was handed over to the Mexican Government, by order of the U. S. Department of Labor through its immigration officials, because it was alleged he was illegally resident in the U. S. Before he was handed over, the Mexican Consul at Laredo had given assurances that he would not be treated as a political prisoner. The immigration authorities also...
...During the early hours of this morning, on the military parade grounds, Manuel Demetrio Torres was shot to death in pursuance of telegraphic instructions of the Minister of War to the military authorities of Torreon, Coahuila...