Col. Orozco Put To Death.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 7, 1913:
Zapata Ignores $20,000 Ransom Offered for Mexican Soldier.
    MEXICO CITY, June 6.— Disdaining a ransom of $20,000 offered by the friends of Col. Pascual Orozco, Sr., father of the former rebel chief, Emiliano Zapata has caused the old man to be put to death, according to a special dispatch from Cuernavaca to El Imparcial. The dispatch says Orozco's body was found by the Federals at Tlachichilpa, near Jojutla, in Central Mexico. It was hanging from a tree and riddled with bullets.
    A commission of Orozco's friends recently went to Zapata and sought his freedom. Zapata said he would not sell justice — that if Orozco were found by a council of war to be innocent of spying, he would be freed, but that otherwise he would be condemned.