STUDENT ASSASSIN.
Artist Slayer Of Mexican
President.
NO ACCOMPLICES
(Australinn i ress Assn.—United Service.)
MEXICO CITY, July 19
It is now announced that the name of the assassin of the newly elected President of Mexico, General Alvaro Obregon, is Jose de Leontoral, not Juan Escapaulario as was previously stated. He is an art student, aged 23. He had no accomplices. The police announce that the young man carried a photograph of a Roman Catholic priest who was recently executed on a charge of plotting General Obregon's death.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 170, 20 July 1928, Page 7
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