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Show FLEEING CHIEF 01 i, CLAIM Rebels Are Anxious to Clear Selves of Possible Murder Taint . WAS ASSASSINATED, . HIS FOLLOWERS SAY Obregon Denounces Survivors for Not Standing to Defense De-fense of President MEXICO CITY, May 22 The body of Venustiano. Carranza lo due to arrive in Mexico City this evening.' The six other victims of the attack In the early morning of May 20 have been buried, at the scene of the battle. - ,' Permission has been granted relatives rel-atives of the lato president for the private interment of his body. These include liis daughters, Julia and, Virginia,, the latter the wife of Gen vCanHld6" Aguilar. 'Htcfc;)ay'iGi uncertainty ,re-" ,re-" , .gardjng the names of Carranza's pKionwho-vvyrc-Jfiad-iiH- ' believed, howevfir, that they We're General Francisco Murguia, General Gener-al Francisco Urquizo, under secretary secre-tary of war and marine; Luis Cabrera, Cab-rera, secretary of the treasury, and his brother, Alfonso Cabrera, governor of Puebla; Manuel Aguir-re Aguir-re Berlanga, secretary of the interior, inte-rior, and General Pilar Sanchez. EL PASO. Texas. May 22. (By the Associated Press.) Venustiano Carranza, Car-ranza, president of Mexico, and head of the seventy-second government j that country has had since 1.S21, was I assassinated at 1 a. m. Friday by Col. Rodolfo llerrero and his soldiers at TIaxcaltenango, Puebla, according to messages received here from General Alvaro Obregon dated at Mexico City today. "Thero were found six or seven more bodies of tho men in Carranza's party," said ono message from Obregon. Obre-gon. "It is not staled whom these men might be." Slain By Own Men. j Reports given out by tho revolutionists revolu-tionists said Carranza was assassinated assassinat-ed by his own men. Horrero was described de-scribed as an ex-federal officer. He was once an officer ln the Mexican army under President Diaz who was forced to flee Mexico in 1911. Carranza was made a prisoner and cowardly assassinated at tho cry of "Viva Obregon" by Col. Rodolfo Horrero Hor-rero and his men, violating the hospitality hospi-tality that had been offered to him by Herrerok according to a message from his chief followors to General Pablo Gonzales, quoted in his message to re olutlonary agents here. - Scathing Answer, v Obregon answered his mossago in scathing terms. lie declared if thoi Carranza followers who signed themselves, them-selves, numbering more than thirty men and including Juan Barragai'.. chief of staff; Ignacio Bonlllas, former for-mer ambassador to the United States; whose candidacy ' for tho presidency brought on the latest revolution and other prominent leaders, had "died defending your chief y0U would bo at rest with your consciences and escaped tho shame of your cowardice." cow-ardice." Obregon told the Carranzls-tas Carranzls-tas they wero sufficient in number to have done their duty, "to have savod Mr. Carranza's life, if as you state, he was assassinated." Praises Carraitzn. "On ropcatod occasions," said Obregon, Obre-gon, "Presidont Carranza was notified of tho guaranty which would bo given him if he, would be willing to leave tho danger zone, but he refused to accept ac-cept this offor because ho considered it an undignified act of a man of honor to save himself, leaving his companions , in danger. This act of Carranza rovcaled tho dignity and good fellowship you failed to appreciate." appre-ciate." First report of the assassination of Carranza was filed by Obregon Friday Fri-day night. Tho message did not reach here until today. This message said: "Have Just received the following mossago from Huauchlnango, stato of Puebla, signed by Col. L. Hernandez: Story of lulling. " 'General Marlel advises mo from Villa Juarez that tho troops of tho cx-federal officer, Rodolfo Horrero, killed President Carranza at 1 a, m. at a place called TIaxcaltenango. Thero wero found six or seven more bodies of tho men in Carranza's party. It is not stated who theso men might be. (Continued on Paae 2) Fleeing Chief Slain hy "His Own Men, Claim (Continued from pape 1.) I will wire details later. Rodolfo Her-roro Her-roro surrendered last March to Gen-Mariol Gen-Mariol and had been an officer under Gen. Falaez." " Revolutionists today were eager in thoir attempts to show Carranza was not killed by revolutionists but "by his own mon." The department of propaganda and information at No-gales No-gales sent a message to the commercial commer-cial agent of the defacto government hero urging that tho news be given to the press with particular stress on "the fact that the happening occurred far away from the flold of operation of our forces." From tho wording of the Obrcgpn telegram, skepticism was expressed here by many persons In close touch with the revolution concerning the affiliations of Horrero. The anxiety of the Mexicans on tho point was laid to tho concern ovor what the attitude of tho United States might bo if tho reported assassination was laid to the revolutionists. |