Señor Cayetano Romero to Mr. Foster.
Washington, D. C., December 13, 1892,
My Dear Mr. Foster: Concerning the conversation I had last evening with you concerning the reappearance on the Texas border of the Garza bandits and their recent raid into Mexico, I beg to call your attention to the dispatches on the subject published yesterday by the New York Herald, World, and later by the evening papers, and to enclose you herewith a copy of the message wired to me last evening by the Mexican consul at Laredo, Tex., to which I also alluded, from which it appears that two Mexican officers and four privates were burned [Page 425] up by the bandits, who set fire to the barracks during their raid on the Mexican side of the river, opposite San Ignacio.
Hoping that the U. S. Government may now redouble its efforts in the capture of said bands of marauders, which have given them so much trouble in successfully eluding their pursuit,
I am, etc.,