Word: puebla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco Perez, alleged to be the third assassin of the murdered Englishwoman, Mrs. Rosalie Evans (TIME, Aug. 11), was captured last week in the State of Puebla. He was taken to Puebla City for trial...
...Mexico City, President Calles hastened to quiet the British. Believing that a conciliatory attitude might do much to improve Anglo-Mexican relations, severely strained by the murder, he ordered the court at Puebla to hurry disposition of the prisoners. It was believed that appeal would be refused, that they were soon...
...with the Union Jack - Mrs. Evans was an American citizen by birth and a British subject by marriage. The Murderers. The Mexican Government ordered General Roberto Cruz to make every effort to apprehend the murderers. He gave the matter his personal attention. President Obregon sent his private secretary to Puebla to investigate the circumstances of the crime. Within 24 hours of receipt of instructions by General Cruz a number of arrests were made. Within another 48 hours Francisco Ruiz and Alejo Garcia confessed participation in the murder, but claimed that one Perez had committed the crime. Next day the round...
When nearing her hacienda in Puebla, a group of armed men appeared suddenly, opened fire on the buggy. Five bullets entered the left side of Mrs. Evans; she was instantly killed. As her body fell out of the buggy, her hair caught in the wheels, the frightened horse tore off at breakneck speed, dragging the body with it, causing terrible mutilations to the face. Strauss was removed to a hospital, seriously wounded...
After the defeat of the rebels at Puebla a fortnight ago, the second stage of the war was begun by the battle of Guadalajara, which is the third largest city in Mexico and one of the richest farming districts on the western coast...