Mr. Uhl to Mr.
Olney.
Embassy
of the United States,
Berlin, June 30, 1896.
(Received July 17.)
No. 79.]
Sir: Referring to the embassy’s dispatch No.
518, of March 28 last, I have the honor to append hereto a memorandum
report of certain
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military
cases, more particularly mentioned below, which have either not yet been
referred to in correspondence with the Department, or, having already
been reported, have now been favorably concluded.
Cases of: 1, John Petersen Graasböll; 2, Nathan Newman; 3, Robert J.
Barth; 4, George Schaeffer; 5, Siegmund Glaser; 6, Isidor Bernhardt.
Your obedient servant,
[Inclosure in No. 79.]
Embassy of the United States of
America[, undated].
- No. 1. John Petersen Graasböll, for whom permission had been
obtained (see dispatch No. 474 of February 13, 1896) to remain
at his home in Schleswig-Holstein, in order to transact some
family business, until March 1, 1896, having informed the
embassy, under date of March 4, that his business was not
completed, a request was on March 5 (F. O. No. 376) addressed to
the foreign office that he be allowed to remain at Skudstroup
for another month. The foreign office in its reply, which was
dated April 9, stated that Graasböll had been allowed to remain
as desired, until the first of that month, by the Prussian
authorities.
- No. 2. Nathan Newman, the bearer of an American passport, No.
315, issued by the United States embassy at London on March 6,
1895, went to Königsberg in January, 1896, on business, and on
the 6th of February was ordered to leave the city within eight
days. Upon the intervention of this embassy made on his behalf
in a note sent to the Imperial foreign office (F. O. No. 369),
he was allowed to remain unmolested until he had completed his
business, when, on or about April 8, he left Prussia of his own
accord.
- No. 3. Robert J. Barth, formerly known as Joseph Robert
Staiger, whose case was brought to the attention of the embassy
by a Mr. Tinelli, in a letter from Vellejo, Cal., in February,
1896, was born in Baden in 1865, emigrated in 1883 to the United
States, and became naturalized as a citizen there, at Brooklyn,
in 1888. On account of his failure to perform military service,
an attachment was put upon his share in the estate of his
deceased father, and Mr. Barth desired to have this removed in
order that he might be able to transfer his share of the estate
to his widowed mother who was still living in Baden. Upon the
embassy’s request (F. O. No. 370) the judgment of the court was
revoked, the costs remitted, and all obstacles to the
satisfactory settlement of the estate, as far as Mr. R. J. Barth
was concerned, were removed.
- No. 4. George Schaeffer was born in Alsace in 1857, emigrated
in 1873 to the United States, and there became naturalized as a
citizen. In April, 1896, he returned on a visit to his parents
in Alsace, and upon his request permission was given him to
remain until June 2, which permission was, at the instance of
the embassy, extended by the authorities of Alsace-Lorraine for
a further period of two months (F. O. No. 27).
- No. 5. Siegmund Glaser, who was expelled from Prussia in 1888,
and for whom the embassy obtained permission to revisit his
former home during the summer of 1895 (see dispatch No. 442,
December 30, 1895), having requested the good offices of the
embassy in order that he might again visit Prussia this year, a
note was addressed to the foreign office (F. O. No. 19) in his
behalf, in the reply to which, received on Juno 20, 1896, it is
stated that the Prussian authorities will allow him to remain in
Preuzlau from September 1 to 21, next, inclusive, as
desired.
- No. 6. Isidor Bernhardt (see dispatch No. 54 of May 28, 1896)
called at the embassy on June 18 and stated that he had
completed his business and was leaving for New York in a day or
two of his own free will. A few days later a note was received
from the foreign office in which it was stated that the desired
permission to remain here until the end of June (F. O. No. 38)
had been granted him.
