No. 839.
Mr. Romero to Mr. Bayard.
Washington , November 28, 1887. (Received November 28.)
My esteemed Mr. Bayard: I have the honor to inform you that I have received a personal letter from the governor of the State of Durango, dated in that city the 17th instant, in which he informs me that on the 10th of the preceding month of October he had made a report to the secretary of foreign relations of the United States of Mexico in regard to the assassination of Mr. Leon Baldwin, to the effect that two of his assassins, Carlos Martinez and Vicente Becerra, had been killed, the first in the attack on Durazno, and the second a few days later; but that by information which he has since received it seems that the death of Becerra was not certain, but that he was being pursued with all activity, and that, as soon as he fell into the power of the forces of the State he would be handed over to the proper authority that exemplary and condign punishment might be meted out to him.
In the note of the 29th of October last I communicated to you the report which the governor of the State of Durango had sent to the secretary of foreign affairs in regard to this matter, to which the rectification contained in his above-mentioned note applies.
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