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...Mexico City the emaciated corpse of General Arnulfo Gomez, executed last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 14), was laid, amid great weeping and hysteria, in its last resting place. At the same time what purported to be the true report of the manner of his capture and death was circulated. Surrounded by the troops of General Jose Gonzales Escobar, General Gomez, making a futile effort to draw his gun, fell on the slippery ground. Seeing that his game was up, he surrendered, and, fearing that he was about to be summarily shot, begged for his life, offering to take any punishment other...
Holding on to the sleeve of General Escobar, Senor Gomez was taken to the village of Tepcelo, where at 1 o'clock in the morning a court martial was held and his death sentence pronounced...
General Arnulfo Gomez, onetime presidential candidate, fell into an ambush prepared for him by General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...
...General Gomez, one of the principal leaders in Mexico's recent revolt (TIME, Oct. 17, 24), had eluded capture for almost a month in the mountains of Vera Cruz, from which he was said to be attempting to escape to a foreign country...
...before, for prosecution on the mere strength of the evidence he had would have laid him more than ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that has, as events have turned out, gained him the sobriquet of Mexico's man of iron...