Evening star

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saint was acquitted yesterday i

of murder in the death of a

(fellow diplomat at the Haitian

Embassy in Washington April

1 14. 1958.

Although Mr. Toussaint ad

mitted shooting Samuel De

j vieux, 52, minister counselor

for the embassy, a jury cleared

him after deliberating less than

an hour.

I Testimony in the two-day

trial brought out that Mr.

Toussaint had taken up his post

as first secretary of the embassy

only to be recalled a few weeks i

later. Blaming Mr. Devieux.

for the recall, Mr. Toussaint,

1 went to his desk, pulled out a

gun and shot the minister 1

t counselor before witensses. Mr.

Devieux died from chest and

■I neck wounds.

The Government termed the|

shooting “a barbaric act that

f brought a severe impression of

Haiti.”

s The country’s current minis-

I THE EVENING STAR

Washington, D. C., Monday, Juno 27, 1960

comes in here! Those are

Fidel’s personal, orders.”

The dump is located in an

almost barren piece of land

poking into Havana Bay. A

j military post is nearby.

Dump Unoccupied

The semi-official newspaper

Revolucion said no one was

inside the dump when the ex-|

plosion occurred. There are

usually 25 soldiers assigned

there but they were on Sunday

leave.

Those closest to the dump

were soldiers at a small mili

tar post 200 feet away, a news

caster on a government TV

station said. Three of them

were injured. Others were in-,

jured at a garbage dump about

400 feet away.

Other Havana stations re

ported that men in a speeding

garbage truck had hurled gre

nades at the dump, touching

off the blast. There was no

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1960). Washington, D.C., 1960-06-27. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1960-06-27/ed-1/?sp=5

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1960-06-27.