Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1914 — RELICS TO BE PRESERVED [ARTICLE]

RELICS TO BE PRESERVED

Mexican Authorities Make Discoveries of Parts of Bodies of Maximilian ami His Generals. . ‘ ‘ 1 y The heart of Gen. Tomas Mejia and fragments of the bodies of Emperor Maximilian and General Miramon, all of whom .were executed together on the Cerro de las Campas, just outside the city of Quertaro, when Maximilian surrendered there to the forces of President Juarez, were found recently in a search which was made by the constitutionalist authorities of the library of the house of Luis Garcia plmentel, In Calle de Donceles. No. 68.

The house of Garcia Pimentel Is at present occupied by General Davila Sanchez. When the constitutionalist authorities were going through the library of this residence, taking an Inventory of what they found there, they came upon the grewsome relics, which were carefully preserved. The heart of Mejia and the portions of the body of the emperor and his other trusted general had been kept, it is said, by Doctor Liceaga, who performed the autopsy upon the bodies after their execution, and acquired from him by Pimentel as relics. They probably will be donated to a museum. It is said, by the authorities. —Mexican Herald.