Word: concepcion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of the ending of Mexico's religious troubles 80 nuns were ordered released from the penal islands of Tres Marias (The Three Marys). But Madre Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, "intellectual author" of the murder of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TiME, Sept. 3, et seq.) remained behind...
Remembering bloodthirsty stories of France's Devil Island and Italy's Lampedusa, meticulous Robert A. Maier, Mexican correspondent of Berlin's Lokalan-zeiger anticipated the first anniversary of General Obregon's death by going to visit Mother Concepcion, to see for himself what a Mexican penal island is like...
...coast, 60 miles out in the Pacific. They can only be reached by a wheezing, blunt-nosed government steamer from dusty Mazatlan. Armed with dark glasses and a large cotton sun umbrella, Newsman Maier took this steamer, chugged out to Maria Madre, the largest island. There he found Mother Concepcion, a grave, deep-voiced, slightly masculine woman, knitting undershirts. Breathlessly he told her of the end of Mexico's religious troubles. Mother Concepcion laid down her undershirt, smiled composedly. She was "full of faith in the future...
Fears of the pious that Mother Concepcion was imprisoned in a melodramatic Living Hell were quieted by Herr Maier's article, published last week. Excerpts...
Though these developments convinced many persons of the immaculate innocence of Mother Concepcion, they comprised a mere incident in the broad and sweeping criminal investigation now being conducted by Mexico City's new Chief of Police, General Antonio Rios Zertuche. The General, an intimate and brother-in-arms of General Obregon is determined, perhaps too determined, to find out that the assassin, one José de Leon Toral, an insignificant Roman Catholic fanatic, was not the sole author of the crime as he still insists that...