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Show j GIVES AN ACCOUNT j OF MURDER OF ROOT 1 g NOGAIjTiS, Mexico, Deo. 6. Goorge a Baker, a miuing man, arrived hero to- day from tho Mexican territory of i Topic, bringing tho first authentic nc- : count of the hilling at JLIuajoori, Tepie, 1 Soptcmbor 2 InBt, of his partner, Mor-; Mor-; ris Root. 2 Baker said that on tho dny Root was j killed, thoir eighty Moxican employees bad beoomo drunk at a colebratiouof S a constitutionalist victory. Thoy cov- otod "Root's revolver and ontorod his ; houso to attach him. Ono of the celo- i'i brators stabbed Root .through tho heart jj from behind and also indicted other '1 knifo wounds. ;! Thon, taking tho murdered man's re- j volvor nnd waving tho knifo with :1 which ho had boon ntabbed. tho Mexi-can Mexi-can ndvanced upon Baker, demanding 5 monoy. . Bakor managed to evade them, and after remaining In tho neighborhood I long enough to bury Root's body, left l for tho north. Ho said the scono of "Root's murder x, was near the Tepic-Sirmlou lino, twon-tyfivo twon-tyfivo miles from a railroad. He would w try, ho said, to givo tho details of f "Root's death to tho doad man's fnm- i Hy, who ho believed resided in Ponn- 3 sylvnnin. |