THE MEXICAN TROUBLE.
VERGARA’S MURDEA. TORTURED BEFORE DEATH. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received March 10, 1 p.m New York, March 9. An examination of Vergara’s body shows that a blow with a rifle butt had crushed his skull and .there are also gunshot wounds in the head and neck. The body had been mutilated and a burned hand indicated that he had bean tortured before death. Men, believed to he t,he Texas Rangers, restored the body to the grave again. The Commandant of the Rangers denies that his men participated in the burial.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10896, 10 March 1914, Page 8
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95THE MEXICAN TROUBLE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10896, 10 March 1914, Page 8
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