Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-09 | Page 2 | Evidence Secured in the Benton Case

EVIDENCE SECURED IN THE BENTON CASE CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, March S.-A j lawyer retained by tho Carranza com ml h-b h-b slon arrived hero today to collect docu- incntarr v!dcnr in the cases of William ij S. Benton, the British subject who waa killed at Juarez, February 17. and of GtiHtav Ranch, who was tried by court-martial court-martial and whose Hubsequcnt disappearance disappear-ance la now believed to Indicate that ho was executed. The lawyer will return to Juarez with the information, and will turn it over to Hie commission. Eusebio Calzada has been appointed general manager of tho constitutionalist (formcrlv tho National) lines, succeeding Colonel Rodolfo Klerro. Mr. Calzada said he would try to Improve the sorviuo to the public, although the transrer of troops' and munitions of war have first call. The railroad Ik now operating to Conejos, a town fifty-five miles north of Torreon. The rebels al-o are operating a lino between be-tween Durango and Pcdrlcanaa, but other lines in constitutionalist territory aro being be-ing managed bv tholr corporate owncra.