File No. 812.00/1934.
[Untitled]
Washington, May 19, 1911.
My Dear Mr. Knox: I have received a most urgent telegram from San Diego, Cal., stating that Pryce (an English subject), who has led filibustering expeditions from the United States to Lower California, Mexico, where he has committed great depredations and various robberies, was arrested by United States troops when he attempted to cross again from American territory into Tijuana.
I am further informed that he has obtained a writ of habeas corpus from the lower court and that to-morrow at 10 a.m. the superior court will consider the case. The imprisonment of this criminal will aid materially to check the filibustering expeditions which are constantly being organized on American territory against Lower California; but should he be set at liberty to-morrow, as his sympathizers at that locality assure will be the case, the effect of this immunity will undoubtedly be to encourage still further the filibusters in their criminal machinations. I hope, therefore, that your excellency may see the way to prevent this great evil.
Trusting that the urgency of the case will serve to excuse my troubling your personal attention on the subject, and with thanks in anticipation, I am, my dear Mr. Knox,
Yours, faithfully,