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Show PUNISHMENT FOR I WIURDERER SELAYA H WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. There is m little chance of former President Ze- M iaya escaping punishment by the Nlc- H araguan courts If the charge can bo Hj brought home to him that ho is re- 1 sponsible for Illegally putting to death M the two Americans, Groce and Can- M Recently it was roported from Ma- M nagua that tho constitutional assein- 1 bly there had declared it could not H punish Zelaya. This led Senor Cas- H trillo, tho Nicaraguan minister to H Washington, to cable an inquiry to his 1 government, and lie has informed tho 1 Btate department that as soon as the H national assembly baa been declared H a legislative assembly it will provide H for trial of Zelaya. H Zelaya La believed to,)) in Bolgium, H but under tho Latin code, he could he M tried and sentenced while absent from M Nicaragua, though, of course, the sen- M tonco could not bo executed uutil ho H . returns to the -country. |