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Show iQUERETARO, Hex., May 26.- Rodolfo Herrero today surrender-; surrender-; ed to Gen. Lazaro Cardenas at Co-j; Co-j; yulta, Puebla, and Is being taken to Mexico City to tell all he knows 1 about the death of Carranza, ac-f, ac-f, cording to a mcGsage received by ) ' General P. Ellac Calles today. General Calles has ordered all i persons accompanying Carranza at the time of his death to be detain-! detain-! ed and questioned regarding the "circumstances. Former Mayor's Story I t EL PASO, Tex., May 26. (By The I Associated Press). President Carran-JL Carran-JL a came to hie death while making ft plans for the recovery of his power. He ' had never given up hope of regaining 8 control of the country and would have refused the safe conduct of the revolu-A1 revolu-A1 tlonlsts If- ho had received it. ; This was the statement today of Felipe Ronquillo, former mayor of .11-nilnez, .11-nilnez, who was ,with Carranza during the first week of his flight, j ' Senor Ronquillo came to El Pnso today to-day from Mexico. , . Carranza Plans Headquarters. V1 1 o He declared President Carranza had 4 ! quit Mexico City on the evening of at May 6, taking with him a train load of gold bullion and government docu-, docu-, ments. lie planned to escape to th U ii .mountains of Puebla, establish head-I head-I (l quarters there and conduct a campaign If (j 10 recover tne government from the I j Obregonistas. Reports that Obregon : -officers imprisoned by the executive I, in Mexico City were executed were li denied by Ronquillo who said these I prisoners were taken with the presi- dent and subsequently released. E Ronquillo declared that Carranza ev-Ijl ev-Ijl idently was Ignorant of the extent of rl the revolution. He did not leave the Wn capital until he had reived word If I that Juarez had capitulated to the rev-I rev-I olutionists. ItJ " Rugc of Old Warrior. ' A ruse of the old warrior saved him for a. time and but for the clrcum-! clrcum-! stances which caused his death, Ronquillo Ron-quillo declared, the aged warrior wouli have succeeded in making good his es-' es-' cape. This was on the morning of the 14th he said. Knowing that the revolution-1 revolution-1 ists would renew their attack at dawn, J Gen, Murguia ordered all civilians to leave the trains. Later tho civilians 1 and most of tho troops were ordered " i to start afoot to tho Uttle town of Santa Maria. While there, troops wore l pursued and captured by tho revolu-'. revolu-'. tionists, Carranza and 500 cavalrymen ' had gone south to the San Nicholas l'anch, bIx miles away. Ronquillo left Carranza on the loth, , after Carranza had notified his generals gener-als of hlB plans for establishing head- quarters in the mountains a'nd directing direct-ing a campaign against the revolutionists. revolution-ists. Just before Ronquillo left, he eaid, Carranza released the Obregon I officers, allowing them to re-enter the revolutionary lines. j L oo |