Word: villalon
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Dodging behind a lamp post, Colonel Jiminez whipped out his pistol and fired into the crowd, wounding two civilians just as soldiers commanded by Lieut. Rogerio Perez Villalon dashed up in a motor car. Doubling back for refuge toward a drugstore, Colonel Jiminez found it closed (by the strike). He crawled in desperation under a stone bench on the Prado. Two Porristas who bravely sought to rescue their leader were killed by the soldiers' fusillade. Lieut. Villalon drew his pistol, warily approached the bench. Standing his ground, he shot it out with Jiminez until the latter fell...
...brought a rope. He wanted to hitch Jiminez' legs to a motor car and drag him through the streets. "No! No!" commanded Lieut. Villalon. "Let him lie in the streets like an animal!" The dying man stared up at them. They kicked and fouled his corpse after he went limp...