Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three judges of the Mexican Supreme Court went to jail last week. In the jail, at Mexico City, they crowded into a large cell with Assassin José de Leon Toral, self-confessed slayer of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
Sentence of death was passed last week upon José de Leon Toral, self-confessed assassin of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Sentence of 20 years imprisonment was passed on Toral's "intellectual accomplice," the nun Concepci...
When captured the assassin was of uncouth appearance, ragged of shirt, scrubby of beard. But when he stepped before the microphone, last week, José de León Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
Radio listeners thrilled as the assassin said, "Madre Concepción was merely the final drop of water which caused the overflow of my cup of intention. She had no inkling that I was preparing for my mission...
Cheers and much pelting of flowers by the populace greeted the arrival of Mexico's most popular criminal lawyer, peerless Demetrio Sodi. In defense of the self confessed assassin Lawyer Sodi argued that his crime was purely political, and as such is punishable by imprisonment only...