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Quailed Under Gangmen's Gaze.

"Now, Shapiro," •said the coroner,

"you know you have been lying to me

in saying that you drove those men to

HAITI DISASTER

RESULT OF PLOT

Four Hundred Are Killed or

i

Wounded Besides President

LeConte in Explosion.

PORT AU PRINCE. HAITI. Aug. 9.

Haitien soldiers today began making

arrests of men suspected of participa

tion In the blowing up of the national

palace yesterday, which resulted in the

death of President Leconte and the an

nihilation and wounding of probably 400

other persons, mostly Haitien soldiers.

General Tancredo Auguste, who was

appointed acting president by the na

tional assembly to succeed Leconte, vir-

I tually placed the city under martial

law today, and issued a manifesto say

ing that a rigid investigation of the out

rage would be made. While soldiers

patrolled the streets others were at

work clearing away the wreckage of

the palace, which was burned after the

explosions had set if on fire.

Although Leconte had been In office

less than a year, there were rumors of

conspiracy against him at the time of

his death. That was the reason Le

conte had insisted on maintaining a

powder magazine and arsenal in his

palace, and why he kept hundreds of

soldiers stationed either In the struc

ture or in the immediate neighborhood.

The palace, a huge frame building re

sembling an American summer resort

hotel, rather than the official residence

of the head of a republic, caught fire

from an explosion in the magazine,

which was immediately underneath Le

conte’s chamber, and was soon envel

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Atlanta Georgian · Atlanta, Ga. · August 9, 19129 de agosto de 1912 · See the original pageVer la página original

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Atlanta Georgian. (1912). Atlanta, Ga., 1912-08-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89053729/1912-08-09/ed-3/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Atlanta Georgian, 1912-08-09.