Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — MEXICO FREES JENKINS FROM PUEBLA PRISON. [ARTICLE]

MEXICO FREES JENKINS FROM PUEBLA PRISON.

Washington, Dec. s.—William 0. Jenkins, the American consular agent imprisoned at Puebla, Mexico, was released Thursday night. The American embassy in Mexico City reported his release in an official dispatch received by the state department this afternoon and almost at the same time the news dispatches were received from Mexico City which said a check for SSOO had been deposited with the ■civil authorities This difference in the two reports semeed to raise some doubt as to whether Jenkins was released unconditionally on the diplomatic representations of .the United States government or whether he had been released on bail, as the Mexican authorities had'contended he could. The state department, however, took the view that Jenkins had been released on its diplomatic representations.