Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 312.41/105.

Consul Edwards to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Consulate,
Ciudad Juarez , February 22, 1914 .

Department’s February 21. Request for the body of William Benton was made by me during interview of the evening of nineteenth. Villa said he could not let the body go now but would do so later. He was then requested as a favor to me to mark well the grave. This he promised to have done. Will make another attempt to secure the body.

Edwards

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