An almost indescribable slate of violent events made the Monday morning headlines on this day in 1920.
Of interest, and probably depending upon whether you were receiving a morning or evening newspaper, the violence in Ireland may have focused on one side, or the other, in the strife going on there.
On the same day Woodrow Wilson, acting as the arbiter on where the boarder between Turkey and Armenia was to go, issued his decision. It was a moot point, the Turks, who had prevailed in their war against Armenian, would dictate where that border would be to Armenia's detriment.
DuPont bought a giant share of General Motors.
Governor Octaviano Larrazola pardoned sixteen Mexicans who had been imprisoned for the March 9, 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico noting that they appeared to have no real connection with Villa and were press ganged by the Villista's at the time of the raid and forced to participate.
Governor Larrazola had been born in Mexico to then wealthy parents who had suffered under the French rule and who ultimately went bankrupt. He entered the United States with a Catholic Bishop as a teenager intending to study theology, which he did do, and then become a Priest. Ultimately, he determined he was not called to the Priesthood and became a teacher in El Paso, Texas. In El Paso his focus turned to the law which he studied and then stood for the bar in Texas. He moved to New Mexico in 1895 where he practiced law and entered politics, becoming the state's Governor in 1918. He'd ultimately serve a term in Congress. As he was highly independent and tended to anger his own party, his political career was intermittent.
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