Office of the Historian

No. 823.
Mr. Whitehouse to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, November 16, 1888. (Received November 24.)
No. 188.]

Sir: I have the honor to refer you to my dispatch No. 182, of the 12th instant, in reply to your telegram of the 10th, asking that a formal request for the extradition of Shields and Wilson be made of the Mexican Government.

I spoke with Señor Mariscal concerning his promise to telegraph the governor of Coahuila about the matter, and he read me a telegram, in which the governor states that no request for extradition has been made to him.

I therefore sent you yesterday a telegram to that effect.

I am, etc.,

H. Remsen Whitehouse.
[Inclosure in No. 188.—Translation.]

Mr. Mariscal to Mr. Whitehouse.

Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, November 15, 1888.

Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: In a telegram dated yesterday the governor of the State of Coahuila informs me:

“I delayed replying to your telegram of the 10th instant in order to secure necessary [Page 1244] information. Mr. Rankin has not appeared with documents setting forth the crime of the prisoners Shields and Wilson, nor has this (State) government received from the authorities of Texas any requisition for the extradition of the men.”

Which I have the honor to inform you; renewing, etc.,

Ignacio Mariscal.