Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-19 | Page 1 | Mexican Flier Killed Attempting to Prevent Insult to Gil, Morrow

Mexican Flier Killed Attempting T To 0 Prevent Insult to Gil Morrow Shot to Death While Seeking to Stop Reb Rebel l Sympathizers From Putting Up Posters MEXICO CITY April ID 19 AP APA ATA AT AP- A Mexican army aviator has lost lostis his his' is life me in in prevention of an Insult to to o. o his country's president Emilio Emillo Port ortes Portes s 's Gil and United States Ambassador Ambassador Am- Am Dwight W V Morrow And by a peculiar twist of ot irony the ic insult which ho he sought to avert materialized anyway just as his life ebbed and became extinct We Wednesday night Lieutenant Joaquin Garcia Bolanos saw a group of f men pasting some posters to walls wails alls on the outskirts of Mexico City Ity He stopped to read one and saw aw on it the statement that President President dent ent Portes Gil and Ambassador Morrow orrow were wele conniving to destroy Mexico a subsequent sentence de de- scribing Mr Morrow its the enemy of f this tills country Lieutenant Bolanos Bolano j remonstrated with ith the tho men and attempted to tal talc take the he posters from them One drew his pistol then and shot the young oung aviator inflicting wounds from which ho lie died early today The rhe entire entire entire en en- tire group escaped Police at about the time he was dying discovered walls about the city had been covered with hundreds of the posters and immediately set about removing them Ambassador Morrow said nothing I of or the a affair at his usual week day press conference Thursday evening I and it was not until late last night that the reference to him hini and ami to President Portes Gil was revealed by the tho police