Attempt to assassinate President Barrios, October 5, 1877

Attempt to assassinate President Barrios.

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On the 29th of the present month, the Señor General President being for the moment free from his multiplied attentions, at ten o’clock was tranquilly breakfasting in the convent of the town of San Pedro Jocopilas. Suddenly the clergyman, Felix Pajes, curate of the parish of Sacapulas, introduced himself into the dining-room, and with revolver in hand audaciously attacked the person of the Señor General President, who, being unarmed at the precise moment in which the other attempted to discharge the homicidal weapon, had no other measure of defense but to strike aside the hand of the clerical assassin. A faithful servant, Inez Cruz, at the moment serving the table, succeeded in discharging his revolver at the criminal, who fell to the ground expiring instantly, thus receiving the merited chastisement of his premeditated crime.