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Show II. 5. ILL HUE OEJTIipffl Killing of American Citizen by Police Officer to Be Investigated. I W ASH ING TON, Nov. IS. Investigation of. the death of Eugene Lack in El Centro, Cl.. from a wound said to have been in-f in-f Ucted by a Mexican police officer in lexical!, Mexico, last Friday, has been ordered by the state department. Lack was attached to the office of the -sheriff of Imperial county, California, and a dispatch dis-patch to the department said the shooting was unwarranted. Both the embassy at Mexico City and the consulate at MeXicau have been instructed to urge punishment of his assailant. I.OS ANGELES, Gal.. Nov. IS. Mexican Mexi-can officials at Mexican have offered no explanation of the shooting of E. P. Lack of 151 Centro, Cal., beyond the statement that be was "treated according to Mexican Mexi-can laws," said Mayor Casey Abbot of Calexico, just across the international boundary line from Mexlcall, today. Mayor Abbot based his statement on a message telephoned him here. The same message brought word of the death of lack in an El Centro hospital today. Mayor Abbot added that his Informant declared "Lack was within 100 feet of the American custom-house at Calexico when a Mexican policeman shot him. He said officials of Imperial .county, California, Cali-fornia, had difficulty in obtaining permission per-mission to remove Lack from Mexican to 39 Centro for medical treatment. "WASHINGTON, Nov. IS. The whole Mexican situation, including the arrest, of William O. Jenkins, American consular consu-lar agent at.Puebla, and oil legislation, was discussed today by President Wilson's Wil-son's cabinet, but if any decision was reached it was not made known. Secretary Lansing, who presided, refused re-fused to say what took place, but Secretary Secre-tary Glass said the government apparently was unable to "find out anything" about the Jenkins case. 'Some time after the cabinet adjourned the state department announced that the acting minister of Mexican foreign affairs af-fairs had informed the American embassy at Mexico City that the state authorities at Puebla had been instructed not to molest mo-lest Jenkins, who previously had reported twit he was being restricted to his home by state officials. The foreign minister's action followed delivery of a protest from the state department, de-partment, sent after Jenkins was arrested, ar-rested, but just what it would amount to was not made clear. Jenkins is awaiting trial on charges of collusion with the bandits who kidnaped and held him for S150.000 ransom. Meantime the state department de-partment is awaiting additional reports before taking further action. MADRID, Nov. IS. General Candido Agullar, governor of Vera Crux, Mexico, was received iu audience today by King Alfonso. General Aguilar is in Europe on a special spe-cial mission for President Carranza, |