MEXICAN MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 200, 24 August 1928, Page 7

MEXICAN MURDER.

Alleged Plot To Assassinate Leaders. MOTHER SUPERIOR ACCUSED. (United Service.) MEXICO CITY, August 23. In connection with the trial of Jose Toral for shootin? the President-elect. General Obregon, at San Angel on July 17, the polite will submit a signed statement by Raphael Vidal, aged 22, a law student. In this Vidal asserts that the Mother Superior, the Abbess Maria Concepcion, showed him sotne pictures of youths who were executed because of their religious activities. He asserts that she expressed her determination to organise another group of martyrs. Vidal alleges that the Mother Superior's plan was to murder the President, General Calles. as well as General Obregon, have a bomb thrown into the Chamber of Deputies and have railway bridges blown up. The Attorney-General. Senor Nietc. will ask that the Mother Superior shall be sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. That is the supreme penalty for a woman in Mexico. A message from Mexico on Auinist 2 stated that Jose Tora!. the assassin of General Obregon. belonged to an organisation led by the Abbess Maria Concepcion. ihe trial of Jose Total opened with the prisoner s impassioned declaration that Catholic leaders had nothing whatever to do with the assassination. He said. "I can die most happy if I know that my blood will be the last shed in this cause." Valente Quintana. Chief of Police, said that when Toral was taken to the Mother superior s home, the first question that he asked was: "Mother, are you ready to die tor me?" The Mother Superior vigorouslvdenies this testimonv.