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Show EXECUTION OF SOLDIERS CHIEF SUNDAY ATTRACTION Men Placed Against Adobe Wall and Shot to Death While Women and Children Look On. El Paao, Texas. At daybreak in Cludad Juarez Sunday morning two men faced their death at a public execution. exe-cution. The affair proved to bo the chief Sunday attraction for residents of the Mexican border town. Tbe bulla were announcing early mass from tbe tower of tbe old Spanish Span-ish mission of Guadalupe. But tbe townspeople, men, women and children, chil-dren, (locked to a barren space back of the federal barracks, where It waa announced tbo execution would occur. A military band played a funeral march as the two firing squads took their placea. Hacked against an adobe wall stood Antonio Itodrigues and Inlcaclo Hernandez, Her-nandez, privates of the Fourteenth battalion. bat-talion. They were charged with plot-'ting plot-'ting to Instill sedition to assist the constitutionalist revolution among tbe ranks of the federal garrison. They bad been convicted by courtmartial. Uefore tbe ten executioners leveled tbelr rifles Itodrigues accepted a handkerchief hand-kerchief over bia eyea and cringed at the command fir.'' An officer'! pistol pis-tol was necessary to end bla life. Hernandez, Her-nandez, however, refused the execution execu-tion mask and stoically met bis death. Both were young men, but long In the military service. |