TREASURE SEEKER SLAIN.
A talc of a treasure hunt in an ancicnt temple in Oaxaca that ended tragically is related in "El Universal," Mexico City newspaper.
Four Mexico City men, Jesus Rodriguez, Domaso Lopez, Humberto Diaz, and Manuel Franco, after gaining permission from the local government, searched for wealth supposed to be hie. ten in the Tepescuolula .eniple in the village of the same name in the State of Oaxaca.
The natives were hostile to them from the first, refusing to sell the treasure hunters as much as a loaf of bre- One night a oarid of Indians att? ":cd .itcamp. killing Jenor ' .anco and s.rioufiy wounding his sister, who was camping with the party. The treasi. ,if any, is still concealed in tne ancient temple.
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Auckland Star, Issue 265, 8 November 1929, Page 8
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