Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-12-31 | Page 1 | Mob Threatens Killers' Band

MOB THREATENS KILLERS' KILLERS BAND Mexican Red Shirt Beaten to Death After Five Catholics Catholics Catholics Cath Cath- olics Are Slain MEXICO D. D F. F Dec Dee 31 P- P P Armed reserves held back aroused I residents of suburban Coyoacan today as 57 young members of oC a revolutionary revolutionary Red Shirts organization charged with witti sl slaying ying five live defenseless Catholics just outside their church were transferred to the federal peni One of the Red Shirts Shirts' was beaten to to death by the townspeople and authorities authorities au au- au ordered the prisoners removed removed re re- re- re moved after reports that residents were armin arming for an attack on the jail Four men and a woman of th the crowd which emerged from worship fell dead under the volley tired fired at close ran range e. e The Red Shirt group was holding an anticlerical demonstration demonstration demon demon- almost at the door of ot the church Serious developments ts including the possibility y of a general religious conflict conflict conflict con con- were feared as a result of the killings President Lazaro Cardenas was expected expected ex ex- to take a vigorous stand against the Red Shirt organization organisation and probably probably probably ably order its dissolution Government Go spokesmen denied the Red Shirt group is an official organization ration and said it would not be pro pro-