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Show Elton Execution Postponed. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 9. The execution of Harold Elton has ngain been postponed bv the Mexican government. General iVbrecon. the minister of war, today telegraphed tele-graphed to Ouxaca ordering the suspension suspen-sion of tiie sentence for twenty-four hours because of representations made by I British Consul General Thurston. Later General Obregon granted an lndesinite j suspension of the sentence acalnst Elton, ' which was to have been carried out tu- ' day. The suspension is to enable the ' American state department to continue j Us investigation of the ease. ; Eiton wa-s convicted by a court-martial on a charge of aiding the rebels against the government. j |