The Brattleboro daily reformer

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I'lUU-Al -PKI.NCi;, Haiti, Julv 2S

(Jen. Oscar, governor of Port-au-Prince

and a supporter of President ni)l.iiiiii.

caused to he executed yesterday at the

time of the outbreak of the revolutionary

movement in thU eity, all the iwlitical

prisoners in the hands of the government

to tlie nuiuttur of almut K) then.

The victims of this massacre included

ton. Orestes Zainor,- a former president

Haiti, who was driven out of the conn

try last year and returned in March of

ami was made a prisoner.

When the people of Port-au-Prince

'earned of this massacre there was a gen

'rai outbreak of indignation. A mob in

vaded the Dominican legation, where Gen

Uscar took refuge after his unsuccessful

defense of the presidential palace again

the rebel, seized Oscar and dragged him

before the door of the legation, where he

was promptly executed in his turn by

Uisillade of rifle shots.

The mob, excited to a great decree, then

turned to the French legation and threat

ened to invade this building to compass

the execution of President Guillaume.

(Juillaume took refuge under the Hag of

France at lO o'eWk yesterday morning

I'fter he had been compelled to flee before

the rebel attack.

Gen. Oscar ordered the execution of

lhi political prisoners in his power as

soon as he perceived that the revolution

ary outbreak of yesterday morning was

a serious menace.

The body of (Jen. Oscar today remains

unburied before the consulate of the Do

minican republic, where it had fallen after

he had faced a firing squad.

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (1915). Brattleboro, Vt., 1915-07-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86071593/1915-07-28/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Brattleboro daily reformer, 1915-07-28.