Mr. Peirce to Mr.
Gresham.
Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg, October 26,
1894.
(Received November 9.)
No. 285.]
Sir: I am to-day in receipt of a letter from
the United States consul at Warsaw, dated October 23, forwarding two
official documents relating to the death of Stanislaus Krzeminski.
It would appear that my request at the foreign office for telegraphic
instructions to the authorities at Warsaw to expedite the investigations
of the consul may have been serviceable.
The consul informs me that the small amount of money belonging to the
late Krzeminski, which he received from the prison authorities, he
intends to hand over to the widow, who, he says, has recently called at
the consulate.
The amount of money in question is, he says, 17 roubles 28 kopecs and 3
silver pieces.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
285.]
[Translation of certificate of death.
Consulate of the United States at Warsaw, city of Warsaw, No.
839. Translation for the use of the recorders. The parish of
Most Holy Mother. Certificate of death issued out of the parish
books.]
It is certified that Stanislaus Krzeminski, married, 62 years old,
died on the 5th (17th) of September, 1894 year.
Father’s name, Sebastian; mother’s name, Elisabeth. (Husband and
wife.)
The above is certified, city of
Warsaw, 6–18 October,
1894.
| [l. s.] |
Rev. Niewiarowski,
The
Recorder. |
U. S.
Consulate at Warsaw,
Warsaw, October 22, 1894.
No. 1509.]
I, Joseph Rawicz, consul of the United States, do hereby certify
that the foregoing translation is true and correct.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the consulate at Warsaw this day and year next above
written, and of the Independence of the United States the one
hundred and nineteenth.
[
seal.]
Joseph Rawicz,
U. S. Consul.
[Inclosure 2 in No.
285.—Translation.]
Chief of the Prison at
Warsaw to Consul Rawicz.
In answer to yours of September 21 (October 3) 1894, I have the honor
to communicate to you that detained in my prison a citizen of
America, Stanislaus (Sebastian’s son) Krzeminski, 62 years of age,
died on the 5th of September (17) at 7 o’clock in [Page 551] the evening, from “cachetic
pneumonia,” being sick during two weeks in the hospital of the
prison, was buried on September 7 in the cemetery “Bruduo,” Roman
Catholic denomination. The religious ceremonies have not been
performed during his sickness as, on the proposition made by the
guardian Dombrowski to call the priest, Krzeminski answered that he
did not feel so sick as to need a priest of the prison. The burial
ceremony was performed according to the prison instructions, and
accordingly his body was deposited into the ground on the cemetery
Bruduo at the expense of the city. As proof of the death of
Krzeminski I beg to inclose the certificate of his death, adding
that after the death of Krzeminski is left in Russian money 17
roubles 28 kopecks, 1 thaler 1 mark Prussian money, one-half dollar
American; no other things left, while Krzeminski was buried in the
clothing in which he was brought to prison. The amount of 17 roubles
28 kopecks and 3 silver pieces of money, the receipt of which I beg
you to acknowledge.
moltchanof,
The Chief of the
Prison.
U. S.
Consulate at Warsaw,
Warsaw, October 22, 1894.
I, Joseph Rawicz, consul of the United States at Warsaw, do
hereby certify that the foregoing translation is true and
correct.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the consulate at Warsaw, this day and year next above
written, and of the Independence of the Uuited States the one
hundred and nineteenth.
[
seal.]
Joseph Rawicz,
U. S. Consul.
