No. 430.
Mr. Bayard
to Mr. Pendleton.
Department
of State,
Washington, November 18,
1887.
No. 265.]
Sir: I inclose copy of a letter, dated the 4th
instant, from the Hon. W. W. Morrow, member of Congress from California,
calling attention to the case of one Hans Jacobsen, of San Francisco, who
alleges that he has been arrested while in the island of Alsen, on a charge
of being a deserter from the German army.
You are instructed to bring the case to the notice of the imperial foreign
office, with the request that it may be carefully investigated,
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and if the facts prove to be as
stated that Mr. Jacobsen may be speedily released from arrest, as his
business interests in San Francisco are reported to require his presence
there.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 265.]
Mr. Morrow to Mr.
Bayard.
San
Francisco, November 4,
1887.
Sir: I inclose the affidavit of J. J. Olsen,
setting forth the facts relating to the citizenship of Hans Jacobsen, of
this city, who recently visited Germany, and it is reported has been
arrested while on the island of Alsen, in the Baltic Sea, on a charge of
being a deserter from the German army. I also inclose certified copy of
act of naturalization.
As Mr. Jacobsen is a citizen of the United States, his friends desire
that his case may receive the attention of the State Department to the
end that such representations may be made to the German Government,
through our minister at Berlin, as will show the right of Mr. Jacobsen
to be discharged from further arrest.
Aside from the indignity to which Mr. Jacobsen has been subjected, and
against which he has the right to invoke the protection of the United
States, he has, I am informed, business interests in San Francisco that
will greatly suffer from his detention elsewhere.
I am, therefore, requested to ask for this case the earliest attention
possible.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 265.]
Affidavit of J. J. Olsen.
State of California, City and County of San Francisco, ss:
J. J. Olsen, being duly sworn, on oath deposes and says: That he is a
white male citizen of the United States of America, over the age of
twenty-one years—to wit, of the age of thirty-two years; that he is at
present, and has been for more than fifteen years last past, a resident
of said city and county of San Francisco; that during the last nine
years of said term affiant was well acquainted with one Hans Jacobsen;
that said Hans Jacobsen was a native of Germany; that said Hans
Jacobsen, on the 2d day of June, A. D. 1887, at said city and county of
San Francisco, renounced and abjured all allegiance and fidelity to
every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and
particularly to William, Emperor of Germany, and was, on said 2d day of
June, A. D. 1887, by an order of superior court of said city and county
of San Francisco, duly given and made on said day, admitted and declared
to be a citizen of the United States of America; that on or about the
25th day of July, A. D. 1887, said Hans Jacobsen departed from said city
and county of San Francisco; that prior to said last-mentioned day said
Hans Jacobsen had several times declared to affiant, during the course
of a number of interviews held between said Hans Jacobsen and affiant,
that it was his (said Jacobsen’s) purpose and intention to visit his
father and his native land; that he expected and intended that his said
proposed trip should occupy and extend over a period of about two
months, and that it was his purpose and intention to return immediately
to his business and his home in San Francisco; that affiant is informed
through friends of said Jacobsen in Germany, and verily believes, that
shortly after said Hans Jacobsen reached his destination, he was, while
on the island of Alsen, in the Baltic Sea, arrested on a charge of being
a deserter from the German army, and affiant is informed and verily
believes that said Jacobsen was afterwards carried to the town of
Flensburg, Germany, where he was then, and ever since has been and still
is confined and imprisoned on said charge.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3d day of November, 1887.
Lee D.
Craig,
Notary
Public.
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[Inclosure 3 in No. 265.]
naturalization certificate of hans
jacobsen.
No. 250.]
In the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, State of
California. Present, Hon. T. K. Wilson, judge.
In the matter of the application of Hans Jacobsen, an alien, to become a
citizen of the United States of America, in open court, this 2d day of
June, 1887.
It appearing to the satisfaction of this court, by the oaths of J. J.
Olsen and Peter Christen, citizens of the United States of America,
witnesses for that purpose, first duly sworn and examined, that Hans
Jacobsen, a native of Germany, has resided within the limits and under
the jurisdiction of the United States five years at least, last past,
and within the State of California for one year, last past, and that
during all of said five years’ time he has behaved as a man of good
moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the
United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the
same; and it also appearing to the court, by competent evidence, that
the said applicant has heretofore, and more than two years since and in
due form of law, declared his intention to become a citizen of the
United States, and having now here before this court taken an oath that
he will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and
that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance
and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty
whatever, and particularly to William, Emperor of Germany;
It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said Hans
Jacobsen be, and he is hereby, admitted and declared to be a citizen of
the United States of America.
T. K.
Wilson,
Judge
.
Hans Jacobsen,
Residence, 42 Spear
street.
Witnesses:
Peter Christen,
Residence,
Oakland
.
John J. Olsen,
Residence, 42 Spear
street.
Office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court,
City and County of San Francisco,
State of California:
I, William J. Ruddick, county clerk and. ex
officio clerk of the superior court in and for the city and
county of San Francisco, State of California, said court being a court
of record having common law jurisdiction and a clerk and seal, do
certify that the above is a true copy of the act of naturalization of
Hans Jacobsen as the same appears upon the records of said court now in
my office.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said court this 28th day of October, in the year of our
Lord 1887, and in the year of our Independence the
112th.
[
seal.]
William J. Ruddick,
Clerk
,
By
J. D. Wiseman,
Deputy Clerk.
