Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Williams to Mr. Rockhill.

United States Consulate-General,
Habana, March 30, 1896.

No. 2847.]

Sir: I have the honor to report to the Department, on information received from Mr. Viondi, the advocate, that the military court having under its investigation the charges against Mr. Julio Sanguily and some twenty others for participation in the kidnaping of Mr. Antonio Fernandez de Castro by the bandit Manuel Garcia on his plantation near the towns of Bainoa and Aguacate in the year 1894, has quashed all these cases. They are still pending, however, before the civil court.

I am, etc.,

Ramon O. Williams,
Consul-General.