Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coffee. As the last morsels disappeared their jailer entered. He had waited until after breakfast, he said, so as not to spoil the young men's appetites. Since they had breakfasted, however, it became his duty to inform all four that they would be led out into the prison garden later that morning, and stood up one by one before a firing squad...
...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 the prison walls bearing...
Punctual, His Excellency General Roberto Cruz, Chief of the Mexico City Police, arrived just before 11 A. M. to superintend the execution. His spurs clinked as he crossed the prison doorsill. Entering the prison garden, he swept with a cold, appraising glance the mounted police (now dismounted) who composed the firing squads. At 11 o'clock sharp General Cruz ordered that Priest Miguel Agustin Projuarez should be the first to face muskets...
Dundee went to the big city. One could succeed more quickly and with less effort in the big city. Dreaming of swift wealth he joined with fakers. He was apprehended and sent to prison. All chance of success seemed to have vanished...
...stranger visited Dundee in his prison cell. He told Dundee that he must not despair; that the world was large; that there were many places where Dundee might go and start anew. Dundee took heart. When the prison doors opened, he traveled far away and commenced to build in earnest...