A TERRIBLE OUTRAGE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4925, 13 January 1926, Page 2

A TERRIBLE OUTRAGE.

TRAIN SACKED AND BURNED.

MURDER OF PASSENGERS.

MEXICO CITY, January 11

A terrib'le outrage by bandits is reported from Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisct.

A passenger tram was attacked by a party of bandits between Guadalajara and Mexico City. The majority of the passengers were murdered, and most of the members of the military escort were killed. Twenty armed men boarded the train at Guadalajara. They suddenly began stabbing the soldiers with knives.. They then robbed and killed the passengers.

Of the military escort all but seven Were killed, and the others seriously wounded.

The train wais burned with the victims aboard.

The bandits were under the orders of a former colonel, Nunez. They made their escape on the engine, carrying away a booty of 300,000! pes.os, The telegraph communication was cut.

twenty bodies found.

A .MOST HIDEOUS CRIME

MEXICO CITY, January 1U

Twenty bodies, burned beyond recognition, have been recovered from the train which the bandits wrecked, looted, and burned on Sunday near Guadalajara. It is said that tlic desperadoes committed the outrage (one of the most atrocious crimes in Mexico in recent years) in the mistaken belief that General Ferreira (Military Commander of the State of Jalisco) was aboard the train.