File No. 25420/2.
The Acting Secretary of State to Minister McCreery.
Washington, July 13, 1910.
Mr. Adee says the department is advised by the governor of New York that Charles N. Vandenberg, traveling under the name of Carl Nicklas or other alias, convicted of forgery in New York, is a [Page 647] passenger on the Norwegian steamer Agnella, sailing from New Orleans July 7, due at Puerto Cortes on the 13th. The fugitive, he says, is a physician, but contemplates entering the planting or mining business, and adds description.
Mr. Adee instructs Mr. Sands to say to the minister for foreign affairs that in view of the extradition treaty now pending with Honduras, which the department expects and hopes soon will be in force, the Government of the United States would greatly appreciate it if the Government of Honduras would find it possible, as an act of comity, to order the provisional arrest and detention of Vandenberg with a view to his extradition, thereby repeating the courteous treatment accorded to the Government of the United States in the Baileys’s extradition.1 Mr. Adee further directs Mr. Sands in preferring this request to state that the Government of the United States will not be able to take reciprocal action because of statutory prohibitions in this country.