Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 10170.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, December 2, 1907.

No. 139.]

Excellency: Referring to the Mexican Embassy’s note of March 10, 1906,¹ and to subsequent correspondence regarding the extradition of George Deering Reed to Mexico, I have the honor to inform you that the department is in receipt of a telegram, dated the 2d instant, from the Attorney General, in which he says:

Referring to your letter March 13, 1906, and subsequent correspondence, I have the honor to report that George Deering Reed is under arrest and provisional detention in the district of New Jersey, charged with embezzlement in Mexico.

Accept, etc.,

Elihu Root.

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