No. 255.
Mr. Morgan
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, July 1, 1884.
(Received July 11.)
No. 843.]
Sir: * * * I inclose a copy of a dispatch from
Consul Viosca of the 17th June last, in which he informs me that Captain
Caleb escaped from La Paz on the 11th of May last on the Mexican steamer
Estado de Sonora and landed at Guaymas, whence he went by rail to San
Francisco.
Also a copy of Consul Kelton’s dispatch of the 7th of June, in which he
states that the captain of the steamer Estado de Sonora informed him that
Captain Caleb took passage on his steamer at La Paz under the name of John
Kelly about the 30th of May last, and went to Guaymas, whence he proceeded
to San Francisco.
I am, &c.,
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[Inclosure 1 in No. 843.]
Consul Viosca to Mr. Morgan.
United
States Consulate,
La Paz,
Mexico, June 12,
1884.
Sir: * * * On the 11th of May last Captain
Caleb deserted the private house wherein he was confined, committing a
breach of parole, under which custody he had been kept before and after
he was sentenced to suffer the penalty of five years of imprisonment,
leaving the said house (from information acquired from outside circles)
on the night of the date above mentioned, when he absconded on board of
the Mexican steamer Estado de Sonora, and have also been informed that
he was conveyed to Guaymas, and that he there took the railroad train
for San Francisco, Cal., where he now still remains. The circumstances
of his escape never came to the knowledge of this consulate until the
30th of May, since which time I have had no chance for communicating the
incident.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 843.]
Mr. Kelton to Mr.
Morgan.
Consulate of the United States,
Mazatlan, Mexico, June 7, 1884.
Sir: I am in receipt of your letter relative to
Captain Caleb.
The purser of the steamer Estado de Sonora informed me to-day that
Captain Caleb (under the name of John Kelly), took passage on said
steamer from La Paz to Guaymas about the 30th of May last, and from
Guaymas proceeded to San Francisco.
I infer that he escaped from La Paz; probably assumed that no steps would
be taken by the authorities to impede his escape.
I am, &c.,
