Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1916 — HAS STOLEN MEXICAN SHIELD [ARTICLE]

HAS STOLEN MEXICAN SHIELD

Bears Coat of Arms and Disappeared on the Night Madero Abdicated. Douglas, Ariz. —A rawhide shield, bearing the embossed national emblem of Mexico, stolen from the hall of ambassadors of Mexico City the night Francisco I. Madero was seized by his officers and forced to abdicate the presidency of the republic, is in the possession of Ives G. Lelivier, Mexican consul here. He has written the Carranza government for authority to keep it. The shield was ..taken by a customs officer from a Mexican who was frying to get across the international line at Nogales, Sonora. Its seizure by the customs officials ended a search of three years, beginning the night it was stolen after it had been cut by the bullets which flew from the pistols of officers and orderlines in a melee which started in the hall of ambassadors when Madero stood under the shield and protested against the treasury. The rawhide hung on the wall in the days of Diaz, and President Huerta valued it so much that he commissioned detectives in an effort to find it.