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...Mother, I am making Foard go on for aid. Can't move. God save us. Please help Foard marry Clarissa, he is your son now. Dad, I am dead-save mother." Clarissa is a girl in Lima, Peru...
Precisely at 8 a. m. punctual Peruvian officers sat down with a great clinking of spurs and clattering of swords in Lima last week to do something about the jaunty 19-year-old youth who had punctured President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru with a bullet in church (TIME, March...
...officers' questions with respect. Since punctured President Sanchez Cerro was alive last week and not expected to die, Puncturer Melgar knew he had comparatively little to fear. To win popularity and votes almost any punctured public man will try to get his assailant off. Last week in Lima the court-martial sat from 8 a. m. until 4 a. m.-then sentenced to death both Puncturer Melgar and his accomplice, Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition) Party. The sentences of death, imposed just as dawn was breaking, were ordered carried...
...leaving Lima's socialite Miraflores Church after service last week, President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru drew his pistol and pointed it at one Jose Melgar, for the good reason that this tall, pale youth had just fired a bullet into the President's chest...
When captured, Youth Melgar (who by this time also had a broken arm and a fractured skull in addition to his neck wound; said: "My action was entirely personal." The police, according to Lima newsgatherers, were at first determined to lynch Youth Melgar, desisted only under stern orders from their superiors...