Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Adee to Mr. Barrett.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington , September 12, 1904 .

Referring to your telegram of September 8, request as act of comity provisional arrest and detention of Herman E. Haass, charge embezzlement $20,000 of Corn Exchange National Bank, Chicago. Warrant of arrest issued. Formal papers being prepared. Supposed Haass is or will be at Gran Hotel Central, Panama City, to-morrow, under assumed name Frank Edwards. Description: Age 49, height about 5 feet 9, weight 155, hair brown, somewhat bald, eyes blue, very nervous, continually chewing gum.

Adee.