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Title: Tentativa de asesinato
Creator: Villar, Salustiano
Publication Info: Bogotá : Imprenta i estereotipia, April 23, 1869.
Physical Details: 32 x 22 2/10 cm

Summary: Salustiano Villar, accused by Jacinto María Ruiz of formenting a plot to assassinate Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, testifies he is innocent and that Ruiz took a conversation they had two years prior out of context.
Historical Notes: Several other broadsides in the Helguera Collection refer to this and other assassination attempts against Mosquera. A few of them are in this database including "T.C. de Mosquera, Gran General, Presidente constitutional de Colombia, peso indebiamente en el Observatorio de Bogota, a sus compatrioatas!" (record #443), "Roberto Morales y Tomás C. de Mosquera" (record #474), and "El escaño de Cartago" (record #501).

Subject(s): Mosquera, T. C. de (Tomás Cipriano), 1798-1878
Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1858-1886
Related Items in the Collection: T.C. de Mosquera, Gran General, Presidente constitutional de Colombia, peso indebiamente en el Observatorio de Bogota, a sus compatrioatas!

Type: Broadside
Language: Spanish
Format: JPG
PDF - Color
Donor: Helguera, J. León
Collection: Helguera, J. León Collection
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Accession Number: B00626
Record Number: 437