Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1914 — BENTON BUTCHERY TO BE INVESTIGATED [ARTICLE]

BENTON BUTCHERY TO BE INVESTIGATED

Carranza Appoints Commission of Mexicans to Probe Killing of the British Subject. Carranza, the leader of the Constitutionalist forces, has decided to solve the Benton matter in his own way. He has appointed a commission of Mexicans to probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of Benton. .Strangely he did not appoint Villa on the commission, but there can be no doubt that the men who constitute the commission will do the work just as well and support the statement of Villa that he was killed by a firing squad following a court martial that found him guilty of an attempt to murder Villa. In the meantime Gustav Bauch, an American, can not be found, and it is quite probable that he has met the fate of Benton. England is satisfied with the action the United States has taken and President Wilson feels that the most critical stages of the latest complication have been passed.