Biography
Elías Beauchamp was a Cadet of the Republic arrested following the February 23, 1936 assassination of police chief E. Francis Riggs. The thesis describes actual police-station confinement on San Francisco Street in San Juan and killing in custody that day, contrasting the police account with journalist Enrique Ramírez Brau’s later eyewitness account. No judicial sentence was completed. Source: José Manuel Dávila Marichal, Organizando la revolución: El Ejército Libertador del Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico y la insurrección nacionalista de 1950 (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid doctoral thesis, 2020), physical/printed page 162–164; SHA256 be07767792e7789d4683e0c5787caac280ca95b7f4c93adf2fbfbab5e7a48eb4.