Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 22372.

Vice Consul Caldera to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Consulate,
San Juan del Sur, November 17, 1909.

Mr. Caldera reports the capture of two Americans, Lee Roy Cannon and Leonard Groce, with the revolutionists, and says they have been sentenced to death at El Castillo. Mr. Caldera says he telegraphed the President at the request of the prisoners pleading commutation, and that the President replied that he would see, but he now says the sentence is final.