Minister Pearson to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Teheran, February 22,
1906.
No. 131.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your telegram of the 17th instant, reading as follows:a and to confirm my reply
thereto.a
I inclose copies of correspondence with the foreign office showing the
manner and form in which I carried out the instructions contained in
your telegram above quoted.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure 1.]
Minister Pearson to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
American Legation,
Teheran, February 13,
1906.
Sir: I have just received a cable from my
Government stating that the Persian minister asks ten months’
extension of time in which to punish Kurd accomplices in Labaree
murder. In order that I may answer the telegram before 4 o’clock
this afternoon, will you kindly inform me by 3 o’clock if the
Persian Government will obligate itself positively and
unconditionally to punish the ringleaders in the murder before
January 1, 1907?
Upon that unequivocal assurance the extension will be granted. I send
this direct to you to avoid translation and delay in the hope that
you will confer with Mushir-ed-Dowlab at once and advise me in time
to reach my Government before close of office hours.
I am, etc.,
(Signed)
Richmond
Pearson.
[Inclosure 2.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Minister Pearson.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Teheran, February 13, 1906.
My Dear Minister: Your excellency’s note is
being submitted to the Shah, and on receipt of His Imperial
Majesty’s command a reply will be sent in due course.
I beg, etc.,
[Inclosure 3.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Minister Pearson.
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
Teheran, February 15, 1906.
Your Excellency: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your note addressed to the ministry for
foreign affairs, through Hussein Viuli Vihan, Navab, on the 13th of
February, with reference to the murder of the late W. Labaree,
stating that a telegram had been received at your respected legation
to the effect that the Persian minister at Washington had asked for
an extension of ten months for the arrest of the accomplices in the
murder of W. Labaree and their presentation for trial.
You state in your letter that if the Persian Government will give
emphatic assurances to the legation that before the 1st of January,
1907, the principal accomplices in this murder will be brought to
trial the American Government will grant the extension until that
date.
In reply I beg to inform you that the Persian Government gives
emphatic assurances that before the period mentioned it will present
these culprits for trial, and after examination administer to them
the necessary punishment.
I take, etc.,
(Sealed)
Mushir-ed-Dowlab.
[Inclosure 4.]
Minister Pearson to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs.
American Legation,
Teheran, February 19,
1906.
Your Excellency: I have communicated to my
Government your excellency’s explicit assurances, made in your note
of the 18th instant, by the direct authority and sanction of His
Imperial Majesty, to the effect that the accomplices in the Labaree
murder shall be punished within ten months after the 9th day of next
March.
Upon that solemn assurance I have been instructed to inform your
excellency that the extension of ten months requested by your
minister at Washington has been grafted by my Government.
I am further instructed to emphasize and make clear the point that no
money payment will be admitted in lieu of the actual punishment of
the guilty accomplices.
I avail, etc.,
(Signed)
Richmond
Pearson.
