File No. 200.11L44/17.
The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
San José , July 19, 1913 .
Sir: In confirmation of my telegram of the 17th and also of the 19th instant, reporting the arrest and deportation of Waldo C. Lawson, I have the honor to inform you that on the 17th instant Mr. W. E. Mullins, the general manager of the United Fruit Company, whose aid in trying to locate the fugitives I had requested, telephoned me that Lawson was at that moment in his office in Limon. Mr. Mullins said that Lawson came to him to ask for work and, recognizing him from his descriptions, he questioned him as to his identity. Lawson at once confessed to everything and said that he would be glad to give himself up and to be sent to America to face his charges and that he was tired of being a fugitive from justice.
Upon receipt of this news I immediately called upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs to ask for his arrest and extradition, which the President had informed me he would grant. Mr. Castro, however, said that it would be preferable to have Lawson arrested and deported as a “pernicious foreigner” (estranjero pernicioso), as the Central American Court of Justice would be sure to take an exception to the granting of extradition in the absence of such a treaty.
[Details regarding arrangements for deportation.]
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