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. 798.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Bragg.

Department of State,
Washington, July 11, 1888.

No. 87.]

Sir: At the instance of the Acting Attorney-General, whose letter bears date the 10th instant, the President has to-day issued his warrant authorizing J. E. Van Riper to receive and bring back from Mexico, where they are fugitives from the justice of the United States, Gulie Shields and Isaac Wilson, charged with murder.

A certified copy of the papers in this case and the warrant in question have been transmitted to the Attorney-General for Mr. Van Riper. Meanwhile you are requested to make the necessary application to the Mexican Government so that the ends of justice may not be defeated.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.