Office of the Historian

Baron Fava to Mr. Blaine.

[Translation.]
Royal Legation of Italy,
Washington, June 5, 1890. (Received June 7.)

Mr. Secretary of State: Referring to my note of the 20th of April last, I have the honor again to appeal to Your Excellency’s kindness, begging you to be pleased to expedite, as much as possible, the transmission of the papers asked for by the two letters rogatory addressed by the court of appeals at Catanzaro to the United States courts in the interest of the prosecution, in Italy, of Villella and Bevivino.

I need not remind Your Excellency of the great importance which my Government attaches, in the interest of justice, to having these two persons, who have been in prison for a year, tried by the Italian courts for the crime of complicity in the murder committed by Rizzolo.

Begging you, therefore, Mr. Secretary of State, to be pleased to enable me speedily to forward the documents in question to the Royal Government, which earnestly desires to receive them, I thank you in advance, and

I avail myself, etc.,

Fava.