Señor Romero to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, March 16, 1893. (Received March 17.)
My Dear Mr. Gresham: I had the honor to receive the letter of yesterday’s date which you were pleased to address to me in which you inform me that from two communications from the U. S. War Department of 1st and 11th instant it appears that the following bandits surrendered to Capt. Jackson of the Seventh Cavalry near Carrizo, Tex., who were engaged in the attack on the Mexican town of San Ignacio on the 10th of last December: Julian Flores, Librado Gutierrez, Dionicio Salazar, Gregorio Jueborro (?) Clemente Gutierrez, Jose Maria Morales, Aniceto Treviño, Tomás Cuellar, Procopio Gutierrez, and Amando Garcia; that Fernando Salinas, said to have been private secretary to Garza, and Rafael Ramirez, one of the leaders of the attack, were also arrested, and that in a recent encounter, Manga de Agna was killed, who in January, 1892, assassinated the explorer Glover.
It is very satisfactory to me and it will be equally so to the Government of Mexico to observe the diligence shown by the troops of the U. S. Regular Army in arresting and delivering to the proper judge the bandits organized in Texas, who attacked the Mexican town of San Ignacio, because in this way, and being certain that their crimes will not go unpunished under pretext of wishing to give them a political coloring, it is very probable that they will abstain from committing like offenses, which, besides the consequent results to the perpetrators, may have that of affecting the good relations existing on the frontiers of two neighboring and friendly nations.
I am, etc.,