Show Mexico Mummies Torture Victims Finders Believe CHIHUAHUA Mexico April 50 o I AP AP-A AP A theory that persons i had been tortured and lInd burled alive possibly during the d days YS of tho the Spanish conquest was vas advanced to today today today to- to day as an explanation of tho tI-a dIscovery discovery ery cry of ot mummified bodies in a mountaIn mountain moun moun- tam tain cave near San Juan veno The muscles of the face of ot one body brought here were we contracted indI indicating intense suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering preceded death Those who braved the foul toul air all of or the cave said the bodies of even even the women and Children showed their hands had been bound together with strings about their thumbs Some of ot tho mummies were ranged against the walls the majority majority majority ma ma- were squatting on the floor while others were in a more distorted distorted distorted dis dis- dis- dis position persons speculating as to who In the troubled history of ot Mexico co had inflicted this barbarous de death tJI said they th-ey believed belle these peoples peo peo- I I pl ples shad had been placed in their ghastly ghast ghast- I I ly y tomb as early as the Spanish conquest I Two young goatherds who wh were hunting for wild honey stumbled upon the mummies Frightened they I Iran ran to San Juan Nepomuceno and i notified the authorities The mayor organized an exploring party The searchers also found a second cave leading out of ot tire the first It was be believed believed believed be- be that this might contain more bodies National officials ordered one bOd body which was on exhibition in a astore astore astore store window here sent to the capi capi- tal It will be studied In an effort to ascertain the time when these people lived and the manner of their death |