No. 730.
Mr. Hall to Mr. Fish.
[Telegram.]
Havana
,
November 15,
1873. (Received Nov. 15—11 a.m.)
The executions reported 12th instant fully confirmed by British consul at Santiago and consul-general here. Sixteen of crew were British subjects, and were executed notwithstanding the intervention of the governor of Jamaica and the British commodore.
Papers yesterday published accounts of the execution of fifty-seven other prisoners, and that only some eighteen will escape death. Nothing official received.
HALL.