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O. (Tbe New York World).

NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915.

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PRICE ONE CENT.

BECKER IS

PRESIDENT OF

Seized in French Legation at

Port-au-Prince, Where He

Hid After Rebel Attack.

AVENGERS SHOW FURY.

Relatives of Political Prisoners

Executed in Jail Banded

to Kill Him.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hnytl, July

X. A. mob of infuriated Haytlans to

day dragged Vltbrun aulllaume, Pres

ident of Haytl, from thq Krsnch Lo

cation, where tus took refuse yester

day, and shot him to death In front

of the building.

Aa the President fefl under the hall

of bullets hla body was seized and

mutilated, then tied to the end of a

rope and pulled through the streets

of the olty.

Those note of violence followed Im

mediately tho burial of tho 160 politi

cal prisoners who were massacred In

prison yesterday morning, at the time

of tho revolutionary outbreak against

President Gulllaume.

The mob wa composed in large

part of relatives of Tho victims of this

wholesale execution. The crowd In

vaded the French Legation and seUed,

aulllaume. M. Qlrard, the French

Minister to Haytl, protested vigor

ously, but he was powerless before

tthe fury of the people.

Oulllaumo was dragged from the

protection of tho legation. Oncu In

tho etroet, the crowd surged around

him with Imprecations, and he was

promptly shot down.

The people of I'ort-au-I'rIncc are In

a. state of Intense excitement and fur

ther violence Is feared.

The arrival of the American crula-jr

Washington under command of Ad

miral Caperton and with 700 blue

Jackets and 100 marines on board In

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The evening world. (1915). New York, N.Y., 1915-07-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1915-07-28/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The evening world, 1915-07-28.