Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Hengelmüller to Mr. Olney.

[Translation.]

Austro-Hungarian Legation,
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 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.,

Hengelmüller.

[Inclosure—Translation.]

To His Excellency the Imperial and Royal Statthalter of Lower Austria:

Albert Levy, who, as appears from the inclosed passport, is an American citizen, and who has been in our psychiatric-clinical department since the 24th of August last, is, according to the physician’s certificate, which is likewise herewith inclosed, not a fit subject for further treatment in this institution, owing to chronic mental derangement, and should, therefore, he removed to a hospital for the insane in his own country.

Your excellency is consequently most respectfully requested to make suitable arrangements, through the proper diplomatic channel, for the removal of the aforesaid insane person to such a hospital in the United States of America.

Binder.

Vienna , October 10, 1896 .

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