Word: manzano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl was next brought in. She, pretty Maria Elena Manzano, 21, had previously confessed that Mother Concepcion told her to dance with General Obregon and prick him with a poisoned lancet. Further she stated that she had been upbraided by Mother Concepcion for losing her nerve and failing to prick...
...nervous the day they questioned me. I don't know what I said!" And pretty Maria Elena Manzano sobbingly retracted...
...meeting on April 13 she directed one Maria Elena Manzano, 21-year-old beauty, to proceed with four men, then present, to the city of Celaya, site of an approaching festival, there to inveigle President Calles and General Obregon into dancing with...
Interviewed by reporters, would-be-dancing-murderess Manzano admitted the plot, gave love for Bomber Balda as a reason for her implication, denied that Mother Concepcion had attended meetings. Said Balda, in exoneration of the clergy, "I alone am responsible for my actions." Toral hinted that he had been inspired, but not incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison...
...Carpenteria, Calif., the brothers Rosall, Jesus and Mateo Manzano flung themselves upon D. Goena, cut him up about the head, were jailed pending news from his hospital. Goena, from the Mexican Winterland, had told the Mezani that the world was flat, had called them "devil children . . . crazy with false knowledge...