File No. 312.41/94.
Special Agent Carothers to the Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
El Paso,
February 19, 1914.
Your telegram re Benton. Villa informs me Benton not under arrest. Says suspects Benton of being in plot to kill him. I believe he is held until Villa goes south to-morrow when he will be released. Will continue investigation. Am confident he is not dead.
G. C. Carothers
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