Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, August 10, 1886.
(Received August 20.)
No. 291.]
[Inclosure 1 in No.
291.—Translation.]
Mr. Mariscal to Mr.
Jackson.
Department, of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, August 10,
1886.
Mr. Minister: Pending the receipt by mail from
the Government of the State of Coahuila, of the particulars in the case
of Francisco Resures, which I will immediately communicate to your
excellency, I have the honor to say that I have just received from said
authority a telegram worded as follows:
“Saltillo, August 9, 1886.
“To the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, Mexico:
“Francisco Resures, a Mexican by birth, citizen of San Juan do
Allende in this State, and on various occasions a soldier in our
army, while evading legal arrest, took up his residence a short
time since in Texas. The chief of the Coahuila Guards of Public
Safety officially requested him from the American authorities,
and the latter delivered him to them, handcuffed, crossing him
over the Custom House Ford at Piedras Negras. The chief of the
guards ordered him to be unfettered, and delivered over the
shackles to the American police, consigning Resures then to the
court. When already committed for trial the American consul
demanded him, alleging that he was an American citizen which is
notoriously untrue. The chief of the guards replied that Resures
was no longer under his control, as he had consigned him to the
authorities. While the criminal was being conducted from Piedras
Negras, where he was received, to Zaragoza, where the court is,
he took flight, and in the subsequent pursuit he was killed.
Francisco Resures is the criminal in question, and not Arreusis,
nor Arresures, as the American papers state. I refer to your
telegram of to-day, and will soon answer your note.
“GARZA GALAN.”
As your excellency will please observe, the governor sustains the Mexican
nationality of the person referred to, not only on account of his
nativity but because he served several times in our army.
I am pleased to renew, &c.,
