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The Chargé in Nicaragua ( Hanna ) to the Secretary of State

No. 1130

Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that President Moncada on August 21, 1929, ordered the arrest and confinement of Gabry Rivas on the charge of conspiracy to assassinate him. Included in the conspiracy were also said to be a prisoner in the penitentiary named Simon Torres and an individual named Adán Morales Z. A copy and translation of President Moncada’s letter to the Jefe Director of the Guardia Nacional ordering the arrest of these individuals and their release at the end of ten days in case the evidence against them is not sufficient to bring them before the courts are transmitted herewith.36

Gabry Rivas was arrested by the Chief of Police of Managua on the evening of August 21 and is now confined in the local penitentiary. It is understood that Adán Morales Z., one of the other two accused, is a brother of the owner of the house in which President Moncada [Page 596] lives and has only recently returned from the United States where he served as a Nicaraguan Consular Representative.

It is understood that Gabry Rivas was preparing to leave Nicaragua and that he applied at the Foreign Office for a passport on the day he was arrested and confined.

I have [etc.]

Matthew E. Hanna
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