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Prefect told me that two others had taken place on the Salazar Mts. the same day Goldman was robbed. One of the victims, a miserably poor old man was in the Judges office while I was there & said he had been robbed of a few little articles he had bought at market. The robbers had struck him on the head with a machete cutting his scalp open. All of this on the main public thoroughfares between Toluca & City of Mexico shows how absolutely essential to even partial security is the patrol guards of soldiers that are seen almost everywhere. This same week the papers in the city published an account of a party of armed robbers attacking some merchants on