No. 480.
Mr. Morgan
to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, July 17, 1880.
(Received August 6.)
No. 58.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 29 and its
inclosures, I now transmit translation of the note addressed to me by the
chief clerk of the ministry of foreign affairs (Mr. Ruelas being ill), from
which it would appear that the marauders mentioned in your Department
dispatch No. 17, of May 31, 1880, viz, Arreola and his band have been
consigned to the judge of the district of Coahuila to be tried according to
law.
I inclose copy of a letter addressed by me to the United States vice-consul
at Piedras Negras, requesting him to inform me whether either of the
offenders alluded to in your dispatch are in the neighborhood of their
former depredations.
* * * * * * *
I am, sir, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
58.—Translation.]
Mr. Zárate to Mr.
Morgan.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, July 15,
1880.
Mr. Minister: Referring to your excellency’s
note, dated the 15th of June last, in which you say that the Government
of the United States has been informed that several Mexicans who had
committed depredations in American Territory, whom General Treviño had
sent to a prison in the interior in the country, have been set at
liberty and returned to the scene of their former crimes at the expense
of the Mexican Government, and ask that an investigation of the facts be
made, I have the honor to state to your excellency that the department
of war has reported that Arreola and his band, who are the persons
referred to, have been consigned to the district judge of Coahuila, as
the competent authority to try them for the crimes of which they are
accused.
Upon stating the foregoing in reply to your excellency’s said note, it is
pleasant for me to repeat to you the assurances of my high and
distinguished consideration.
On account of the illness of the secretary,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 58.]
Mr. Morgan to Mr.
Schuchardt.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, July 17,
1880.
Sir: I have to request that you will inform me
whether Arreola, or any of his band who were arrested by General Treviño
and sent by him to Mexico, and who are said
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to have been sent by the general government to the
State of Coahuila for trial, have been lately seen in the neighborhood
of their former depredations, and, if so, whether they have been
committing other outrages upon American citizens or their property.
Very respectfully, &c.,
