Mr. Tripp to Mr.
Gresham.
Legation of
the United States,
Vienna, July 12, 1893.
(Received July 26, 1893.)
No. 14.]
Sir: Referring to dispatches No. 353, under date of
April 19, and No. 360, under date of May 12, written by my predecessor, Col.
Grant, giving an account of the arrest and subsequent release on bail of
Saul Moerser, alias Charles Mercy, a naturalized citizen of the United
States, I now have the honor to submit, for your information, the
translation of a note just received from the imperial and royal ministry of
foreign affairs, which I think might be added to the file of Charles Mercy’s
case.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure 1 in No.
14.—Translation.]
Count Welsersheimb
to Mr. Tripp.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Vienna, July 9,
1893.
Sir: Supplementary to the note of May 8, last,
conveying the intelligence that Saul Moerser, alias Charles Mercy, who
had been liberated on giving bail has lied and left the country, the
imperial and royal ministry of foreign affairs has the honor of
informing the Hon. Bartlett Tripp, envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States, that the imperial and royal
ministry of justice reports the amount of one thousand florins,
deposited by the above-named individual as bail, has been declared
forfeited and has been withdrawn.
The ministry of justice further reports that the imperial and royal state
attorney at Krakow has made motion that the proceedings against
absentees and fugitives, as provided in paragraph 421 of the St. P. O.,
be applied against Saul Moerser and that the latters defending attorney,
Dr. Fischer, has received the bill of indictment for embezzlement.
The undersigned avails, etc.,
Welsersheimb.
For the Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
