Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 839.00/1704.

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American Legation,
Santo Domingo, May 14, 1915—11 a.m.

Horacista Bonneti shot and killed General Ricart, chief of the President’s bodyguard, yesterday afternoon. As a result, political feeling runs high. Bonneti is cousin of Tejera who, with Vidal, shot Cáceres.²

Sullivan.

2. See For Rel. 1911, p. 174.