Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, as Assassin Jose de Leon Toral sat in his cell awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on his appeal, his desolate wife and almost-widow gave birth...
Born. To Jose de Leon Toral (assassin of Mexico's President-Elect, General Alvaro Obregon, a son; at Mexico City...
...hours Assassin Toral and his lawyers explained to the Supreme Court Judges why they should set aside the verdict of Death pronounced upon Toral by a lower court (TIME...
...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...
...discovery and capture by police last week, of one Manuel Trejo y Morales, who gave Toral the pistol wherewith he slew Obregon, was widely rumored to open up a possibility that the Assassin will be retried in an effort to show that he and Trejo were the instruments of a general Roman Catholic plot against the life of General Obregon...