MINISTER SHOT IN SENATE
Argentine Sensation
ANOTHER MAN KILLED
(CXITED IMiESS ASSOCIATION—COFUKGHT.) (Received July 24, 9.10 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, July 23. The Argentine Senate was to-day bitterly debating a bill to extend Government control over foreign meat packers, when a spectator, identified by the police as Ramon Vasquez Cora, fired a revolver from the gallery, killing Senator Enzo Bordabehere, representing Santa Fe Province, and wounding Senators Luis Duahau, Minister for Agriculture, and Rafael Mancini, who also represents Santa Fe. Senators Bordabehere and Duahau were taking opposite sides in the discussion, and seemed about to begin a fist fight, when the shooting started.
The police stated that Cora was the leader of a local Fascist movement. It is believed that he was serving as bodyguard his friend, Senator Duahau, and that he shot Senator Bordabehere to prevent him attacking the Minister. His aim, however, was faulty and he wounded the man he was delegated to protect. It is thought that he must have entered the building accompanied by a senator, because all others were searched for arms before they were allowed to enter.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21534, 25 July 1935, Page 13
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