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...condemned, Luis Segura Vilchis, an electrical engineer, was said by the police to have confessed that he alone conceived and prepared the recent unsuccessful bombing (TIME, Nov. 21) of General Alvaro Obregon, one-armed onetime President of Mexico, and now a candidate for re-election (TIME...
...condemned priest, the Rev. Miguel Agustin Projuarez, and his younger brother Humberto were also said to have made confessions, but an impression persisted that they were sentenced to death chiefly because several bombs of the type hurled at General Obregon were allegedly found in the priest's house. Last of the four prisoners was the boy Juan Tirade, reputed to have confessed that he hurled one of the bombs which shattered the glass of General Obregon's limousine, wounding him slightly. Because many persons thought one or more of the condemned men innocent, a huge crowd gathered outside...
Observers saw an attempt on General Obregon's life by the political opposition driven under cover by the failure of the recent revolt (TIME...
While passing through the Chapultepec Gardens, Mexico City, on his way to a bull fight, General Alvaro Obregon, onetime President of Mexico, one-armed Presidential candidate, good friend of President Calles*was halted by a smallish auto (Essex) swinging in front of his powerful limousine...
This was not accomplished without some hard fighting in which the Federal troops were always reported as victorious. Many rebels were captured. General Arnulfo Gomez, the only remaining opposition candidate to one-armed General Alyaro Obregon, was said to be in hiding in the mountains and seeking an opportunity to escape from the country...