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Show TWOS FOR SLAYING JAIEfi SILVER CITY, NT. If., Jan. 21 Elautorlo Corral and Romaldo Loi i o Were hanged here today as the penol-ty penol-ty for the slaying of Ventura Rent-coma, Rent-coma, jailor of Silver City. Tho two man, according to officers, admitted killing the jailor with an axi n April - 19-'l. vvlo-n iho , r.raped from Hie 'Jrnnt county Jail. Qovernor Mechem twice refusod .o commute their sentences on pctlti in.. from many Mexican residents i.i Teras .New Mexico and Arizona, who saifl they were under 19 years of ai . A commission appointed by the governor, gov-ernor, however, held both were over that age. Luis Montes De Oca. Mexican consul con-sul general al El Paso, twice pctition- 'I "1" J-'ov vim. r to euiiimute the tonce of Lozanoj at the request of 1 DSano'S mother, who claimed her son was only 15 years old. Lozano was a citizen of Mexico. |