Baron Fava to Mr. Adee.
Washington, D. C., September 14, 1899.
Dear Mr. Adee: I have this moment received the letter which you were so good as to address to me yesterday to inform me most courteously of the receipt of the telegram whereby his excellency the governor of Louisiana advises you that he sent yesterday by post the report of the judge and the district attorney relative to the lynching of which certain Italian subjects dwelling in Madison Parish were the victims in the month of July last.
In thanking you for this communication, and for the kind intention you express to me to examine without delay the report in question and communicate with me on the subject thereafter, I would meanwhile be extremely grateful if you would let me know by the bearer of this letter if, in the aforesaid telegram, the governor informs you that the guilty parties have been found and arrested, or at least if justice is upon their track.
You would much oblige, etc.,