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Show WIDOW DETAIL8 HOW M1MANUS WAD SLAIN Says, In Letter, She Beged Her Husband Hus-band to Flee Approaching i Mexicans Chleago, May 1. Details ot how B. McMunus, American citizen, was murdered whllo defending his Moxl co City homo from Zapatistas was told today In a lettor from his widow to tho slain man's sister, Tho letter was written three days after MoManus was slain. It was recolved only today, with tho state department's Btamp on It. "Jt Is harder to ijnarin a cai of greater courago or moro wanton murder," mur-der," tho widow wrote. "Wo all begged beg-ged John to leavo tho houso with us. I had talked with him on tho telo-phono telo-phono as tho Zapatistas wero entering enter-ing tho city. That was less than nn hour before he was shot, for 1 called later, but tho telephone- connection was down. "Tho houso was beyond description. descrip-tion. From tho appcaranco of tho bullet rlddoled walls, thero must have been 400 In tho attack. Everything movable had been stolen." Mr. McManus wrote that her husband hus-band must havo been shot either with an explosive bullet or at closo range as the top of his head was blown off. |