Adelaide's family demanded Ernesto Balmaceda become engaged to Adelaide, a request he would later refuse and thus be killed for.
Soon after his arrival, Balmaceda started to court Adelaide and shortly thereafter, the parents of the bride-to-be found out that the young couple already had had sexual intercourse. They then demanded that 19-year-old Ernesto become engaged to Adelaide and "redress the wrong done" to her. Balmaceda did not want to get married, so he wrote to his family to have himself immediately transferred to another embassy. When Balmaceda refused, he shot him three times: once in the heart, once in the chest and once in the head. After the murder, Carlos Waddington fled to the Chilean embassy and claimed diplomatic immunity and extraterritoriality. 
