Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

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INTERVIEW: Louis Amador Page 24 LA: I didn't thought I was breaking any laws so I thought I was all right. But I heard later that that fellow they went out and you know, some of the older boys that they know and stuff and they went out and see the consul and he almost throw them out of the office. He says, get out of here, I'm not for them, I'm for different official business and that was his business right there. VM: Do you remember what the incident was? LA: Oh, I don't quite but he was kind of capital punishment for the thing he did finally they shoot him, kill him. Remember, when there used to be the penitentiary out in Sugar House? So, but I don't know, I can't remember what it was. That's just an example of what the consul used to do. Now for instance during the revoulution in Mexico I don't blame the United States for not sending any consul because that was a revolt that was ah, what they call a civil war, that's what it was, is like when they have the civil war in the United States. Well, when they have that Civil War in here, Mexico, was having a conflict with France and in fact Ju£rez and Lincolin, they was the best of friends, although don't neither one of them know each other, but they was best of friends for the reason that Mexico didn't get in lines with the what they call not the, government, but ah, what they call those boys with the