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Show DEFENDED HOME WITH RIFLE American Resists Mob of Mexlcani and Kills Boy While Defending His Family. Guadalajara, Mexico. Charles B. Carothora, a local real estate agent, shot and killed Jesus Loza, a 14-ycar-old Mexican, and wounded Prudencio Chavez, a gendarme, In defending hla homo against an attack by Mexicans Frldny night. Carothcrs surrendered to tho authorities at tho flrBt opportunity oppor-tunity and was lodged in tho stato penitentiary, whoro ho will bo hole" pending trial. Carothcrs, who declared at tho police po-lice Btatlon that ho Is a Mexican born at Saltlllo, stato of Coahulla, but whoso parents wero Loulslanlans, was guarding his homo In tho western part of tho city, tho windows and doors of which had been broken during rioting riot-ing on tho night previous, when tha mob approached. At tho first alarm ho took his family fam-ily to tho roof for safoty, ho said. From that point ho opened flro with a rlflo as tho crowd attempted to entor and wreck his homo. Tho quick notion of tho police and Boldiors provonted tho mob from seizing Carothcrs and wreaking vengeance ven-geance upon him.' |