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Show General's Head As ' I A Christmas Gilt Victorious Mexican Officer Selects Juan -. Hcrnandei For Sacrifice Mexico City, Doc. 15. General Pablo Gonzales, commander of Moxl co City for tho do facto government, lecelved a telegram tonight that the head of General Juan U. Hernandez, former tntlmato friend of President Porfirlo Diaz nnd rclatlvo of Goneral Huerta, was being shipped to iilm : from Esperanza stato of Vera Cruz us a Christmas present. ! General Hernandez wns more than eighty cnrs old. According to the adIces which wero sent to the bureau bu-reau of Information nt military headquarters head-quarters hero, tho head was severed from tho body whllo it lay on a bnttlolleld, nnd carofu'ly boxed ly tho victor of tho light, Lieutenant Colonel Luna Gallcla, who planned to express it direct to General Gonza les at his headquarters In tho out skirts of tho capital. Not desiring, however to trust tho trophy to tho express company ho sent It by special spe-cial messenger, selecting for tho task Lieutenant Teoillo Gomez, wiring to General Gonzales of his Intentions. When General Gonzales heard what had been dono he forbado tho chief of tho information bureau to give out further copies of tho telegrams tele-grams and tho Mexican pnpers suppressed sup-pressed tho news Item. General Hernandez was ' widely known throughout tho republic as a prominent member of the Clentillcos party. |
