No. 802.
Mr. Bragg
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, July 24, 1888.
(Received July 31.)
No. 102.]
Sir: Inclosed please find copy and translation of a
note to-day received from Mr. Mariscal, in reply to my request for the
arrest of Gulie Shields and Isaac Wilson, as made under your instruction No.
87, of the 11th instant, notice of which request was conveyed in my No. 97,
of yesterday.
This reply was not unexpected, but I did not call attention to the omission
to furnish any data from which an arrest could be made, in my No. 97, lest 1
might seem to be disposed to be hypercritical.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No.
102.—Translation.]
Mr. Mariscal to Mr.
Bragg.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, July 23,
1888.
Mr. Minister: By your excellency’s note, dated
yesterday, I am informed that the President of the United States had
authorized Mr. J. E. Van Riper to receive and take hack from this
Republic to that country the fugitives Shields and Wilson, and that the
co-operation of the Mexican authorities is solicited for the arrest of
said parties, pending the formal request for their extradition.
As your excellency will understand, it is very likely that, in order to
free themselves from the police, those fugitives may have changed their
names; and that, therefore, little hope can be had of discovering their
whereabouts unless some data concerning them be furnished. As soon as
such data is received, orders will be immediately issued for the arrest
of Shields and Wilson, in conformity with the wishes of your
excellency’s Government.
I renew, etc.,
