Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — High Officers Taken. [ARTICLE]

High Officers Taken.

Eduardo Velasquez, chief of police of City of Mexico; Lieut. Cabreta, assistant chief of detectives; and Commandant Mauro Sanchez were arrested and taken to prison and placed in solitary confinement by order of the fifth criminal judge, to whom had also been turned over twen-ty-one prisoners arrested for entering the municipal building on the night of the recent lynching of the man who attacked President Diaz. If the police authorities are proved criminally negligent in guarding the prisoners they will undoubtedly be severely punished, and whoever took part in killing the prisoner will be held for murder, even if they were merely passively acting as investigators of the crime.