Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Bridgman to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,
La Paz, Bolivia, July 1, 1901.

No. 278.]

Sir: I have the honor to state that the British subject, George Melville, who was imprisoned in Corocoro, charged with theft, has been set at liberty after repeated requests made by me to the minister of foreign relations.

Melville wrote various pitiful letters, saying he was starving, etc., and begging money. Quite an amount was sent him, and since then nothing has come directly from him. I know, however, he has been discharged.

I have, etc.,

George H. Bridgman.