OFFICIAL SHOT DEAD.
CRIME AT PUERTO RICO. United Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, February 23. According to reports from San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Chief of Police was shot and killed, and a police officer mortally wounded by two Nationalist youths wlio are continually agitating for the independence of the island from the United States. The Chief of Police (Mr Francis Riggs, a retired American Army colonel) was killed while returning from church. His assailants were arrested but later they shot down and killed the district Chief of Police, who was at Ponce, where he was attempting to disperse a Nationalist demonstration. The two youths said they bad killed Mr Riggs in revenge of the ‘Rio Piedras massacre.” They were referring to a student riot of several months ago in which four Nationalists w r ere killed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 114, 25 February 1936, Page 6
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