CARRANZA'S MURDER
SHOT WHILE IN BED. Mexico City, Stay 21. Persons accompanying Carranms body say he was shot while in. bed on Friday morning. Thirty shots were fired through the thin Vail of a hut, and-six struck Carranza. Eight others were killed.— Router. SUICIDE PLEA UNTENABLE. 'Mexico City, May 25. Herrera .pleads that Carranza committed suicide, but it is understood that an autopsy showed that this was untenable. Great crowds attended the funeral. A session of Congress selected Addlfo Huerta, Governor of Sonora, as interimpresident of Mexico. Ho received 224 votes, against 28 for Gonzales—Router. [Tho defeated candidate, General Pablo Gongales, was a prominent officer in. Carranza's army.]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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108CARRANZA'S MURDER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 207, 27 May 1920, Page 5
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