Mr. Pratt to Mr.
Blaine.
Legation of
the United States,
Teheran, June 14, 1890.
(Received July 21.)
No. 462.]Sir: I have the honor herewith respectfully to
submit for your consideration the copy of a communication regarding the
trial of Mrs. Wright’s assassin which I have this day addressed to the
British consul-general at Tabreez, and which I trust will meet with your
approval.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure in No. 462.]
Mr. Pratt to
Colonel Stewart.
Legation of the United States,
Teheran, June 14,
1890.
Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 1 of the 12th
instant, in which I recommended that the woman Asli, the reported
paramour of Mrs. Wright’s assassin, Minas, be subpoenaed to appear as a
witness for the prosecution at the latter’s trial, in order to obtain
her testimony regarding, in the first place, the alleged intention of
the said Minas to kill both Mr. and Mrs. Wright, and, secondly, the
possible complicity of others in this crime, which, as I said, may prove
to have been a more extensive conspiracy than was apparent on the
surface, I would urge that in the summing up of the indictment you lay
particular stress upon the fact that Mrs. Wright was pregnant at the
time of her assassination, which, according to the law of the Koran, as
I understand it, makes the murder in the present instance a double
one.
I am, etc.,
