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...asleep in a nearby convent when the killing took place. There were only two eyewitnesses. One was Francisco Bocel Cumes, 18, a gardener, who was forced at gunpoint to lead the killers to Father Rother's sleeping quarters. The other was an American nurse named Bertha Sanchez, who was sleeping in a guest room in the rectory the night of the murder...
...next morning Guatemalan police interrogated Sanchez, Bocel Cumes and Sister Gonzales. A key point of their testimony: the killers were ladinos (men of mixed Indian and Spanish blood), considerably taller than the average full-blooded Indian, who spoke fluent Spanish. All of the arrested men are Indians who speak limited, heavily accented Spanish. Two of those arrested, Farmers Esteban Coche Leanda, 19, and Juna Quiju Caj, 25, actually were friends of Father Rother's. The third, Miguel Angel Mendoza Tecun, 32, is a well-known local merchant...
...government is now seeking the gardener as a suspect in the case, but he has gone into hiding. Two other principal witnesses have fled the country, fearing government reprisals because they had repudiated testimony about the crime. Nurse Sanchez, who is in the U.S., will not discuss the incident. Sister Gonzales has returned to Mexico, where Carmelite officials said that the Guatemalan authorities were "using her name to make false statements about how the killing had occurred...
When Brenda Sanchez of Fremont, Calif., came home from a local grocery store last summer, her son noticed a package of Soft 'n' Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone...
...tissue of lies, said Sanchez. He hired a lawyer and headed for small claims court. In January he won his case, but Scott turned hard 'n' ugly: it appealed. With a court date set for March, Scott last week raised the white hanky and promised to send Sanchez a check for the $1,000 and $500 to cover expenses. Moral: don't squeeze the Sanchezes...