Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 626.
Mr. Hunter to Mr. Heap.

Department of State,
Washington, September 22, 1880.

No. 273.]

Sir: Your cipher telegram, dated at Constantinople the 17thinstant, has been received. It reads as follows, viz:

Legal counsel necessary prosecution of murderers. Do you authorize it?

Upon the 20th instant the Department replied thereto as follows, viz:

You are authorized to employ counsel.

These telegrams are understood to relate to the case of Dr. Parsons and servant recently murdered near Ismid, in Turkey.

I am, &c.,

W. HUNTER,
Acting Secretary.