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Show g cd gi g h? v S & g g 5 t- CLAIM OF CARRANZA SUICIDE DISPUTED DEAD CHIEF IS I LI TO REST I IN CITY j ! Claim of Herrero That Execu tive Killed Self Disputed ; By Autopsy 3 HUERTA IS PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC t I Several Close Friends of Car- ranza Arrested Upon Arrival of Leader's Body EL PASO, Tex., May 25. (By the Associated Press.) General ' Francisco Vllla,biddlng defiance to the newest Mexican government I I again has , become an outlaw among his own people. The bandit with a small force of men was reported re-ported today between Parral and Jiminez, Chihuahua, the hunted quary of de facta troopers with a price of 100,000 pesos on his head. MEXICO CITY, May 25. By the Associated Press) In accordance with his oft-repeated request, Presl-don Presl-don Venustlano Carranza, slain last Thursday moriftng at Tlaxcalantongo, was burled late yesterday afternoon In Dolores cemetery, where In the shadow of Chapultepcc, the poorest of Mexicans havo for . many years found their last resting places. As the funeral cortege left the homo 0C ate chief executive the extra-' ordinary session of congress was be-f, be-f, ins' called to order to.choose a presl- ffi-flefi't '-alTTnTe-rTmT rffniBm'oTflcci until' a new president, to bo elected September Sep-tember 6, Is Inaugurated. Adolfo do la Huerta, governor of the stato of Sonora was named after congress had been In session for an hour. Body Reaches Capitol The body of the slain president arrived ar-rived in Mexico City at 5:30 o'clock yesterday fornlng and was escorted by soldiers and a delegation from tho diplomatic corps to tho family home. Later tho body lay In state, thousands looking upon tho face of the man who was hurled from power by revolution and whose death occurred ' under circumstances that wait ex-i ! planatlon. ' ' Colonel Adolfo Herrero, leader of J sPj-"' revolutionary forces, on whom was Bjr'Y ' placed responsibility for tho death K'S of Carranza, has telegraphed to armyj K, authorities hero that tho president I r ' ' committed suicide rather than sur- '-' '. render. f ' Forty Aro Captured Tn tho 'Carranza camp at Tlaxcal-! Tlaxcal-! 4'. antongo, tho telegram stated, forty I , prisoners were captured. Some of these ' later were released but eleven gen- ' rnls, General Manuel Agulcrrc Bar- 'ItJ: ' anga. secretary of tho Interior, and If Tgnaclo Bonlllas, former Mexican '; ,. ambassador to the United States, and iv, Paulino Pontes, director of the natlon- al railways, wero placed on board iftC; the train that brought Cnrranza's body to this city, but were taken off kT.; , I, boforo rcafchlng lhl3 city. They arc jjs ;' i, said to have been taken to the prison ' at Santiago Tlatclolco. feSJ ! Tho fate of Luis Cabrera, secretary ' " of the treasury, Is unknown. Somo & ' reports state he was taken to prison E ; with other Carranza adherents. Col-M, Col-M, ' onel Herrero'n tolcgram asserted that 1 Cabrera mado his escape after Caret Car-et ' ranza had met death. Thore have I? . been rumors that Cabrera was killed during the fight at Tlacalantongo. 1 None of tho prisoners was permitted to attend tho funeral of their late b3 ColoreI Herrero has offered to come to Mexico City to provo his assertion Egr that Carranza killed himself and It Is Sg?. probable ho will be sent for. uPiff Provisional President de la Huerta B?.ijir --7'' """Ul tako the oath of office on June Wr 3 according to present plans. General Ignacio Enrlquez Is leading a strong column of troops Into south- , crn Chihuahua where Francisco Villa, I who recently announced his opposition opposi-tion to the new government, Is operating. operat-ing. VERA CRUZ. May 25. By the As-J As-J soclated Press) Reports 6f an autopsy au-topsy performed on tho body of Venustlano Ven-ustlano Carranza at TIaxcalantongo fall to agree with the claim of Adolfo Adol-fo Herrero that tho president committed com-mitted suicide rather than bo taken captive, it is said by surgeons horo. Surgeons found Carranza. had been struck by two rifle bullets, one" of which penetrated his breast and tho othor('his abdomen. Tho bullets entered en-tered from In front, and It was the conclusion that the president had been assassinated. 00 I |