File No. 837.00/1429
The Cuban Minister ( De Céspedes ) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to forward herewith to your excellency a copy of the letter1 written under a decree of the Special Court in charge of Case No. 145, of 1917, in the province of the Examining Magistrate of Santiago de Cuba, by the judge in the case, Eduardo R. Sigler to the Secretary of Justice, in which he asks that the Secretary of State be requested to take the necessary steps with your excellency’s respected Government to the end of having placed at the disposal of the said court, as corpus delicti in the prosecution conducted by it, the sum of one hundred and ninety thousand pesos ($190,000) which was taken by the American authorities in the Republic of Haiti from the accused Rigoberto Fernández Lecuona, Luís Loret de Mola y Castillo, Luis Estrada y Estrada, José de Cárdenas Armenteros and Joaquín A. de Oro y Vizcaino, which sum is now deposited in the Department of State under your worthy charge.
By virtue of the said judicial decree and in compliance with my Government’s instructions, I have the honor to beg your excellency kindly to direct that the above-mentioned sum be delivered to me to the end and purposes of the proceedings now conducted in the competent court of Santiago de Cuba.
I renew [etc.]
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