Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 782.
Mr. Bragg to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, April 20, 1888. (Received April 30.)

No. 28.]

Sir: From the inclosed clipping taken from the Two Republics, of this morning you will see that the trial of Captain Munoz and Lieutenant Cabrera, the officers implicated in the late invasion of American soil at Eagle Pass, was commenced yesterday. The names of the jury are also given.

I am, etc.,

Edwd. S. Bragg.

[Inclosure in No. 28.—Extract from the “Two Republics.”]

Court-martial of Captain Muñoz and Lieutenant Cabrera.

Mexico, April 20, 1888.

A dispatch from Monterey says that the court martial case of Captain Muñoz and Lieutenant Cabrera, of the Piedras Negras affair, began yesterday. The jury consists of the following-named officers: Lieut. Cols. Feline Vega, Juan P. Farions, and Antonio Canales; Majors Florentin Valvera, Judan Milan, and Alejandro Pena, and Capt. Antonio Garza. They have been stationed at different points in the States of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. The trial is being held in the senate chamber in the state-house.