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

File No. 312.41/170.

Consul Letcher to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Extract.]

El Paso, March 4, 1914.

Committee of three appointed by Carranza to examine into circumstances death of Benton arrived here to-day and received later telegraphic instructions to the effect that they should proceed to investigate case with a view to determining whether a disinterment of the body of Benton is necessary or not. It was reported here this afternoon that the committee would probably go to Chihuahua by train to-morrow.

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