SHOT IN REVENGE
& WEST INDIES POLICE CHIEF POLITICAL ACT OF TWO YOUTHS By Telegraph —Copyright —Press Assn. NEW YORK, February 23. According to reports from San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Chief of Police was shot and killed and another police officer mortally wounded by two Nationalist youths who had been continually agitating for the independence of the island from the United States.
The Chief of Police, Air Francis jßiggs, a retired American Army colonel, was killed while returning from church. His assailants were arrested but later were shot down and killed when they attempted to overpower the police and attack the district Police Chief, Senor Ortiz, who was at Ponce, where he was attempting to disperse a Nationalist demonstration. The two youths said they killed Mr Rigg to revenge the ‘ ‘ Rio Piedras massacre.” They were referring to -a student riot of several months ago in which four Nationalists were killed.'
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 25 February 1936, Page 5
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