Mr. Grant to Mr.
Gresham.
Legation of
the United States,
Vienna, May 12, 1893.
(Received May 27, 1893.)
No. 360.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatch, No. 353, under date
of April 19 last, giving an account of the arrest of Saul Moerser, alias
Charles Mercy, a naturalized citizen of the United States of America, I now
have the honor to submit for your information the translation of a note
received from the imperial and royal ministry of foreign affairs here, which
note should be added to the inclosures of my dispatch, and will complete the
file of Charles Mercy’s case. I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
360.—Translation.]
Count Cziraky to
Mr. Grant.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Vienna, May 8,
1893.
Sir: Supplementary to the note of the 12th of
April last, No. 14313, the ministry of foreign affairs has the honor of
informing the honorable envoy of the United States that notice has been
received from the director of police at Krakau to the effect that Saul
Moerser, alias Charles Mercy, who, as the honorable envoy of the United
States will remember, was set free on March 4 last, on giving bail to
appear at his trial for fraud and embezzlement, has left for London
shortly after regaining his liberty, with the evident intention of going
from there to America.
The flight of the aforesaid individual fully proves that the suspicion,
expressed in the above-mentioned note, was well founded, and that Saul
Moerser was entertaining dishonest thoughts when he impatiently clamored
for his documents of identity which were in the safe keeping of the
court, and that the authorities at Krakau were perfectly justified in
refusing to hand these documents over to Saul Moerser, because they knew
his true character.
The undersigned avails, etc.,
Cziraky.
For
the Minister of Foreign Affairs
