Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 822.00/224.]

The American Consul General at Guayaquil to the Secretary of State .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Consulate,
Guayaquil , January 26, 1912 .

General Montero was sentenced by court martial on January 25 to sixteen years in prison. All other principals were taken to Quito. The mob disapproved the sentence of Montero to mere imprisonment, overpowered the guards, dragged Montero into the street and burned him to death some three blocks from the jail.

Dietrich.