Mr. Hengelmüller to Mr. Olney.
Washington, December 23, 1896.
Mr. Secretary of State: Pursuant to reports of the administration of the general hospital of Vienna, transmitted hither by the Statthalterei in Vienna, it is no longer found convenient for that hospital to continue the charge of Boris Adler, an American citizen, who has been an inmate of the psychiatric department thereof since November 6 last, under treatment for protracted insanity. The board of directors of the above-mentioned hospital accordingly request that Boris Adler, who is able to undergo transportation, be received in some institution in his own country.
I have the honor to communicate the above facts to your excellency, and to inclose Boris Adler’s passport,2 issued April 24, 1895, and his naturalization certificate,2 dated February 25, 1895, which two documents leave no doubt concerning his American citizenship.
I accordingly beg to claim your kind intermediation with a view to cause the necessary measures to be taken in order that the above-mentioned patient may be accepted in an insane asylum of his own country, and to advise me at the proper time of the result thereof with respect to indicating the time and place when and where the American authorities will receive him.
Requesting the return of inclosures, accept, etc.,