Word: jauregui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innocent!" The words came from a young man, his back against a wall. A moment later eight rifles spat fire and lead. The young man fell forward, dead. He was 28-year-old Alfredo Jauregui who, a week before, had drawn a black ballot† that meant death for the murder in 1917 of General Jose Manuel Pando, onetime President of Bolivia...
...four prisoners, amid hysterical excitement in the court, calmly put their hands into the hat and withdrew their ballot, stoical resignation imprinted upon their features. Twenty-eight-year-old Alfredo Jauregui, youngest of the quartet, blanched-he drew the black ballot. Fiercely protesting his innocence, he called upon the court to hasten his execution by a firing squad, saying that he would not appeal...
Meanwhile the staffs of General Obregon and President Calles discussed with animation in an adjoining coach the details of an attempt upon the President's life, early last fortnight. A crazed woman, Maria Luisa Jauregui, had fired six shots at him, all of which went wild...
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