File No. 319.1123L25/53

The Secretary of State to Minister Price

No. 308

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 1164 dated November 13, 1916, reporting that it is rumored that the new Superior or Criminal Judge, Señor Don Ladislao Sosa, had decided that the evidence collected in the investigation of the riot of April 2, 1915, justified the beginning of a prosecution against the Panaman policeman, Carlos Nuñez, on the charge of having murdered Corporal Langdon.

The Department is glad to learn that Nuñez is about to be brought to trial.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State,
Frank L. Polk