While passing through the Chapultepec Gardens, Mexico City, on his way to a bull fight, General Alvaro Obregon, onetime President of Mexico, one-armed Presidential candidate, good friend of President Calles*was halted by a smallish auto (Essex) swinging in front of his powerful limousine.
Immediately two small black objects came hurtling through the air to be followed by two deafening detonations and a number of revolver shots. The glass left the general's car abruptly, some of it burying itself in his face; otherwise he was unhurt, as were his companions. Before they had...