No. 838.
Mr. Romero to Mr. Bayard.
Washington , November 26, 1887. (Received November 28.)
Mr. Secretary: By sundry notes from this legation addressed to your Department, I presented, in pursuance of instructions received from my Government, a complaint on account of outrages committed at Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, on a Mexican citizen named Manuel Mejia, who was arrested without any warrant from a competent magistrate, and kept in prison for several days by Deputy Sheriff J. W. Blankenship, in disregard of the repeated orders of the district attorney to release Mejia, who was also subjected to most cruel [Page 1254] treatment by various residents of that town, his life having been saved by a mere accident, and, when his persecutors were brought to trial, they were acquitted by the competent judicial authorities, with notorious disregard of justice.
You were pleased, in reply to the last of my aforesaid notes, to inform me, under date of the 31st of May last, that this case would receive due consideration on the part of the United States Government.
As several months have elapsed without any report having been received by this legation concerning what has been done or decided upon in this case, Mr. Mariscal has instructed me to address you, making inquiry as to what has been done in this unfortunate affair.
Be pleased to accept, etc.