NEW CRIME WAVE
MUCH VIOLENCE IN SPAIN < ■’ LONDON, July 3. A strange and widespread reappearance of primitive ferocity marked the Spanish elections, says the Madrid correspondent of The Times. The Mayor of Quel was murdered by two fanatical Catholics, who resented his forbidding the nightwatchman to preface his call with an invocation to the Virgin Mary. A member of the Civil Guard at Estramandura was slaughtered after 40 wounds had been inflicted on him. Two lorry drivers at Santa Olalla were lynched. The son of a marquis was murdered at Orbuela by 20 villagers, led by the Mayor, because the marquis had prohibited syndicalists from working his quarry. » A woman was killed with a pair of scissors at Lalagoa by a mother who thought the victim had bewitched her daughter. A quarrel between gangs of gipsies at Vittoria over a donkey race resulted in four being killed and 14 wounded.
The heat of electoral propaganda does not account for these crimes, but their influence relaxes civic disclipline. Police and civil guards still stand sentinel over Madrid religious establishments. General San Jour jo went by aeroplane to Andalusia to maintain order, owing to numerous strikes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21385, 13 July 1931, Page 7
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194NEW CRIME WAVE Otago Daily Times, Issue 21385, 13 July 1931, Page 7
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