No. 784.
Mr. Bragg
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, April 28, 1888.
(Received May 5.)
No. 30.]Sir: By the inclosed translation of note from Mr.
Mariscal you will see that the President has commuted to twenty years’
imprisonment the death sentence passed upon Col. Francisco Arvizú and Lieut.
Benjamin Gutierrez, for a violation of article 3513 of the Mexican military
code, in an invasion of American soil at Nogales, in the spring of 1887.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
30.—Translation.]
Mr. Mariscal to Mr.
Bragg.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, April 27,
1888.
Mr. Minister: Referring to the correspondence
exchanged between this Department and your legation, relative to the
proceedings instituted against Colonel Francisco Arvizú and Lieutenant
Benjamin Gutierrez, for violation of the 3513th article of the military
code, I have the honor to advise your excellency that, in the exercise
of his faculties, the President has seen fit to commute the capital
sentence passed upon those officers to twenty years’ imprisonment.
While ordering this communication, in response to the petition of the
guilty parties, the Chief Magistrate has considered it advisable to
follow the humane suggestions from your excellency’s Government, as
contained in the note from your predecessor, dated the 16th of last May,
and thus afford, on this occasion, a proof of friendly deference to your
Government.
I improve, etc.,
