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Show MEXICANS MURDER AMERICAN. Shot Down in Home Over Which Flew the Stars and Stripes. Washington. Encouraging advices telling of the relief of the food famine fam-ine in Mexico City through the evacuation evac-uation of the capital by the forces of General Obregon, the Carranza commander, com-mander, were beclouded Friday by the news that on the entry of the Zapata troops, John B. McManus, an American Ameri-can citizen, was murdered shot down in his home, the door of which had been sealed with the coat of arms ot the United States, and over which flew the stars and stripes. The Brazilian minister reported at length in several dispatches on the murder. The motive for the crime, he explained, was undoubtedly one of revenge re-venge for the killing of two Zapata soldiers by McManus when their forces last left Mexico City. The minister said that when the Zapatistas withdrew several weeks ago, after the departure of General Gutierrez, some of them attempted to loot the home of McManus. The latter stood on his doorstep, and though it was never definitely established who fired the first shot, when the attackers flea because of the arrival of Carranza forces, two were left behind dead. |