Office of the Historian

File No. 312.112 B61/12.

[Untitled]

Department of State,
Washington, March 17, 1911.
No. 435.]

Excellency: I have the honor to inform you that the Department has received the following telegram from C. H. Converse, whose son Lawrence is under arrest at Juárez, Mexico:

Please insist on release American boys by Mexico. Sleeping on damp ground contracted severe cold. Pneumonia threatened. His mother verge of nervous breakdown.

I bring this to your attention confident that pending a final disposition of the case of young Converse and Blatt, concerning which I have heretofore addressed a communication to you, the Mexican Government will take all necessary steps to make sure that appropriate care is given to the matter of the health of these American citizens.

Accept [etc.],

Huntington Wilson.