WIDESPREAD PLOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17178, 7 February 1930, Page 7

WIDESPREAD PLOT

SHOOTING OF PRESIDENT THE MEXICAN TROUBLE fElec Tel. Copyright—United I'ress Aa»n.) MEXICO CITY. Feb. 5. Mexican authorities believe that the attempt on the life of President Ortiz Rubio is part of a widespread plot. On orders from the Department of the Initerior, seven additional persons have been arrested. Their identity was not revealed. President Rubio was not seriously injured, and the slugi has been removed from the left side of his jaw. The President's wife, niece, military aide, and a bystander, were grazed by other bullet's, when, the youth, presumably a partisan of Vasconello's, clothed in black, fired six shots into President Rubio's automobile before the National Palace. The assassin stubbornly refused to talk, and was placed under heavy guard. The accomplices of the assassin, one of whom is a woman, succeeded in escaping. Policemen on 1 icycles caught the youth, who wore Catholic insignia to escape detection. Indescribable indications of regret are visible everywhere among the citizens, who earlier in the day were in the best of humor at the peaceful and orderly manner in which President Rubio assumed office/ Representatives of all political factions express disgust at the cold-blooded attempt to murder the President. •Seven persons were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to assassinate. It is authoritatively reported that the assassin later admitted to the War Secretary, Senor Amare, that he is Miguel Flores, aged 22. a student and a follower of Vasconello, the defeated anti-reelectionist Presidential candidate. He states that the followers of Vasconello hatched a plot, to kill President Rubio and his entire Cabinet, and exPresident Fortes Gil produce Governmental chaos, and seize control. The police are watching closely for further trouble, the exact seriousness of which they are unable to ascertain as yet. A close censorship was established after the shooting.