Aguinaldo's guards later ambushed Luna and his aides, resulting to the deaths of the General and his aide Colonel Paco Román, as well as the surrender and arrest of Captain Eduardo Rusca.
“PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR, DAGUPAN. Paging for an important meeting, therefore you are ordered to come here immediately. This is in response to your previous telegram about urgent matters to discuss. It is really an emergency.”
These were the chilling words that set Antonio Luna toward the path of his gruesome assassination in June 1899. The telegram, allegedly cabled by Emilio Aguinaldo, is among four that were sent to Antonio Luna from El Presidente. Of the four, only two survived the Philippine-American War.
Bonifacio’s death had plainly shown Mr. Aguinaldo’s immeasurable ambition for power, and the personal enemies of Luna by means of clever intrigues exploited this weakness to ruin him. If Aguinaldo, instead of killing Luna, had supported him with all his might, it should be too much presumption to say that the revolution would have triumphed; but I have not the least doubt that the Americans would have a higher idea of the courage and military capacity of the Filipinos. If Luna were alive, I am certain that the deadly blow given by General Otis would have been checked or at least avoided in time, and Aguinaldo’s incapacity in the military command would not have been clearly demonstrated. Moreover, to get rid of Luna, Aguinaldo availed himself of the same soldiers the former had punished for breach of discipline then. Aguinaldo killed the discipline, destroying his own army. With Luna its firmest support, the revolution fell, and the ignominy of the fall, weighing entirely upon Aguinaldo, caused his moral death, a thousand times bitterer than the physical one; then Aguinaldo ruined himself, condemned by his own actions. That is the way Providence punishes great crimes.
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