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Show r. CRIES OUT FOR GUN IS TROOPS FlfON REFUGE Wounded Chief Begs for Car-, Car-, bine to Defend Self From , Traitors' Attack ANSWERED WITH VOLLEY ; WHICH ENDED HIS LIFE J Commission Making Inquiry i Into Tragedy Returns to j$'k Mexico City. rW MEXICO CITY, May 26. Formal! r' jC? Investigation for the purpose of clari-) .fZSr fying the part taken in the death ofi . President Carranza, both by Colonel I J Rodolfo Hcrrero and members of the Carranza party, is recommended by the commission of four, named by Generals Obregon and Gonzales to Inquire In-quire into the tragedy at Tlaxcalan tongo. The commission submitted its! report last night and cited ten points! 1 which tho members had agreed had! been proven from stories ofj witnesses. -It was added that in aj number of points many other stories purporting to tell the actual circum-tances circum-tances could not be confirmed and were unworthy of credence. Story of Killing. A summary of tho commission's report, re-port, which is tho first authoritative j story of tho death of Carranza, follows in part: , I "Colonel Herrero joined the Car- ranza party at Putla, state of Puebla, i on May 20, following a conference j with General Francisco do P. Marlel. 17 Lj to whom he surrendered last March. "General Mariel then left the Carta Car-ta ranza party and did not go to Tlax- Icalantonco. i 1 "When Carranza reached Tloxcalan-j , &i2-r - tongo, he was led by Herrero to the . hut where he was to sleep. !' ' . "Before retiring Carranza- ordered apta1Tua1reT-li'sf "pfacTngp Bentinels, all of whom were Herrcro'sl men. I Herrero Departs. I "Herrero later told Carranza that aj messenger had Informed him "his broth-1 er was Injured, whereupon Herrero If, morning of May 21. three of Herrero's fc- 1 men entere'd the president's hut, stat- ing they had been ordered to report to him what the situation was, adding rSta- that nothing new had occurred." : (The report says this move was xA probably lor the purpose of ascertain- , V Ing if all in the hut were in bed and whether, Carranza had changed his m$ position.) Lj;-i. Carranza Cries Out. MM "Half an hour later tho hut was Katj attacked from all sides. Rjl "President Carranza was heard to Eh, cry 'I can't get up; my leg is broken.' rSKr lie then begged for a carbine so that he could defend himself, but was an- swered by a volley which ended his li'l life instantly. Ifc'O "s-1 "The other occupants of the hut fled J&f nnd there was groat confusion in the ;J village. Herrero, at tho head of his men, captured many of the party, who iffij were taken twelve miles away, while filar others were left in Tlaxcalantongo. B ' Four or five of these prisoners were IBB forced to sign a statement that Car- HTj ranza had committed suicide. En . Investigation Urged. BBj , Tho report recommends that a for- HK; nial Investigation bo ordered to clear fire up the other points of the incident ffigj which relate to the part taken by Hr Herrero's men and members of the fm a president's party. It was signed by tj v Roque Estrada and Commodore III- p'' lario Rodriguez, named by Obregon and Aquiles Elorudy and General For-tjv" For-tjv" tunato Zuabua, appointed by General . Gonzales. HSJ The preamblo to the report gives as HgvJ reasons for tho recommendation for an investigation the facts that Herrero MfcvX fled, that his evidenco was not avail- S5f. able and that statements made by Car- fittr , , ranza's companions conflicted in many wttr particulars. B; ' ; General Noira and General Sanchez H ; i both testified that Hcrrero told Gener- Hpi'.'' ' al Perez that tho men he was "looking for" were Luis Cabrera, secretary of 'J tho treasury, Ygnacio Bouillas, former f Mexican ambassador at Washington, I and General Francisco Murgula and that "unfortunately Carranza fell." . Captain Amador declared that when Herrero liberated his prisoners he blamed Colonel Marquez Ceron for shooting tho president. oo |