WEDDING PARTY EXECUTED
XKW YORK. May :if). Details of tlie execution of an entire wedding party, including the hrido and bridegroom, by the .Mexican authorities are reported by the Rev. A\ Hired Parsons, S..J. Kditor of the I'nited States ■‘Catholic Weekly Review.” According to Father Parsons, who says his report has been verified from three sources, word recently reached the Federal Command at Leon, Ouanajuato, that tlm Rev. Andres Solo, a priest of the neighbourhood, who had been in hiding, was to officiate at a wedding. Fold id's promptly sorted him and another priest, father J. I rinidad : the bride, Senorita Maria Nieves C'ueller: the bridegroom. Senor Leonardo Perez; and a lawyer named \';i 1 ~ divia. who was to he a witness at the wedding. til live were executed and their bodies exposed in the square with a notice to the inhabitants that they had been put to death for violating the religions regulations of tlie Oovernment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 1
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