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<small>''On the evening of March 31 last, at a time when Father Moisés, confident and defenseless, headed towards the Barasoain railway station to bid farewell to other priests who were trying to see him off, as he had been appointed to a position in Manila, three heartless individuals encountered him in a wooded area of the road and inflicted eight tremendous stab wounds on him. He succumbed to his injuries an hour later. As for the assassins, they remain a mystery until now. What is not a mystery to anyone is that when immediately sought in Malolos and Barasoain, Torres and the deportees, it happened that none of them were found in the town.''</small> | <small>''On the evening of March 31 last, at a time when Father Moisés, confident and defenseless, headed towards the Barasoain railway station to bid farewell to other priests who were trying to see him off, as he had been appointed to a position in Manila, three heartless individuals encountered him in a wooded area of the road and inflicted eight tremendous stab wounds on him. He succumbed to his injuries an hour later. As for the assassins, they remain a mystery until now. What is not a mystery to anyone is that when immediately sought in Malolos and Barasoain, Torres and the deportees, it happened that none of them were found in the town.''</small> | ||
The suspicion was against Torres. In an article from the Spanish Revistas Filipinas (1898), General Isidoro Torres was referred to as the one responsible for the death of Father Moises. The report stated that "...Isidoro Torres, the alleged murderer of the priest of Malolos, Guiguinto, Agoo and of Santa Isabel, and now commander of the militias with several hundred rifles at his disposal..." <ref>Espanol, J. (1898, June 27). Revistas Filipinas, p. 7. Espana.</ref> | The suspicion was against Torres. In an article from the Spanish Revistas Filipinas (1898), General Isidoro Torres was referred to as the one responsible for the death of Father Moises. The report stated that "...Isidoro Torres, the alleged murderer of the priest of Malolos, Guiguinto, Agoo and of Santa Isabel, and now commander of the militias with several hundred rifles at his disposal..." <ref>Espanol, J. (1898, June 27). Revistas Filipinas, p. 7. Espana.</ref> | ||
Torres was tried for the murder and according to secondary sources, will be acquitted because of his family's reputation and influence.<ref>https://philippineculturaleducation.com.ph/torres-isidoro/</ref> | |||
The people of Catmon would remember the assassination as they reported in the Historical Data Paper of the 1950s the story of the priest's death. According to the retelling of the account, the parish priest was killed on the bridge of Catmon. "The persons who killed the priest, kissed the hands of the said priest before stabbing the said priest in the breast because it is their custom to kiss the hands of the priest whenever they met him."<ref>https://nlpdl.nlp.gov.ph/HD01/p10/m10/b10/1.pdf</ref> | |||
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