Killing for Killing

In recent Puerto Rican political campaigns Nationalists made an earnest effort to win by murdering a number of opposition workers. Last autumn Nationalists rioted at Rio Piedras, with the result that four of them were killed by the police. Resentful indeed were their colleagues because of this massacre.

Motoring home from mass last week with prayer book and rosary in his hands, Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, heard a shot, gave chase to a man in a car. When police halted the runaway, another Nationalist popped up beside Colonel Riggs's car, shot him thrice, once through his prayer book, once through his chest, once through his head. He died within the hour.

Two hours later the two assassins lay riddled with bullets on the floor in a room in San Juan police headquarters. The police story: The two Nationalists, being questioned, suddenly leaped to seize riot guns which were exposed on a rack in an open closet. The police prevented them.

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