POLICE OFFICER KILLED
GRIME IN WEST INDIES POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Received February 24, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 23 According to reports from San Juan, Porto Rico, the Chief of Police, Colonel Francis Riggs, a retired American Army officer, was killed and a subordinate officer was gravely wounded in attacks made upon them by youths belonging to the Nationalists, who are continually agitating for the independence of the island from the United States. Colonel Biggs was killed while returning from church. His two assailants were arrested, but later were shot down and killed when they attempted to overpower tho police escort. The attack on the district police chief, Senor Ortiz, was at Ponce, where he was attempting to disperse a Nationalist demonstration. Tho two youths said they killed Colonel Riggs in revenge for the "Rio Piedras massacre," referring to a student riot of several months ago in which four Nationalists were killed. The Porto Rico independence movement has not been regarded as particularly significant by the Insular Department officials at Washington.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22352, 25 February 1936, Page 9
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