Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1920 — FLAYS GEN. OBREGON [ARTICLE]

FLAYS GEN. OBREGON

DAUGHTER OF FORMER MEXICAN PRESIDENT BRINGS CHARGES. Declares In Open Letter That Father's Murder Was Ordered by the Officer. Washington, July 9. —Miss Julia Carranza, daughter of the late president of Mexico, has charged in an open letter that the execution of her father was ordered by Alvaro Obregon, now candidate for the presidency. Copies of the letter received today by members of the diplomatic corps state thut “when a legally constituted government is established in Mexico and justice is not administered by blood-stained hands’.’ she will present the proofs of her assertion. Miss Carranza is now in San Antonio, Tex. Miss Carranza declared she was compelled to issue her protest “in this hospitable country since my country is deprived of the liberty of speech by the ruling militarists and there is no responsible government.” She said she has the clothing her father wore when he w’as killed, showing the blood stains and the seven bullet holes. The statement made officially In Mexico City that Carranza committed suicide, as well as the charge that Herrera killed Carranza because of the execution of Herrera’s father, was belittled by the daughter, who wrote: “Herrera peacefully walks the street of the City of Mexico, lives at an expensive hotel and goes to the -theaters with the principal men Implicated in the revolution, while Gen. Francisco Murguia and other chieftains who, In obedience to their duty, accompanied my father, are held against all human and moral law In prison, incommunicado. threatened with death for knowing how to be soldiers of honor.” “ ‘Alvaro Obregon is the one responsible for the death of my father. Messages and other proofs show he was the only one who Instructed Herrera to have the president of Mexico disappear. This is the reason why Herrera enjoys the liberty and privileges, and is courted, notwithstanding the deep Indignation of the Mexican people.”