Mr. Hengelmüller to Mr. Olney.
Washington, November 4, 1896.
Mr. Secretary of State: As will be seen by the accompanying report of the director of the general hospital of Vienna, which has been transmitted to this legation by the Imperial and Royal statthalter in that city, Albert Levy, an American citizen, who has been in the psychiatric department of that institution since August 24, 1896, appears, owing to chronic insanity, not to be a fit person to be left in the aforesaid hospital, and the director therefore desires that Albert Levy, who is well enough to be removed, may be taken to a hospital in his own country.
In having the honor to apprise your excellency of the foregoing I take the liberty—inclosing Albert Levy’s passport,1 bearing date of June 29, 1896, No. 14630, and his certificate of naturalization,1 which is dated San Francisco, June 6, 1887, both of which documents leave not the slightest doubt as to his American citizenship—to request your excellency’s kind mediation to the end that proper steps may be taken to secure the removal of the above named person to a hospital for the insane in the United States. I beg, furthermore, to be informed of the [Page 11] result of the action taken by your excellency, and of the time and the place where the American authorities will take charge of Albert Levy. Finally, I beg that the inclosures may be returned to me.
Accept, etc.,