Francis to Count Szögyényi, January 10, 1885

Mr. Francis to Count Szögyényi.

Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the esteemed note, 153/7, of this day’s date, informing me that the military authorities at Krakau had been instructed by telegraphic order to release upon furlough Louis or Liebel Feinknopf, the American citizen who had been consigned to the barracks at that place and put in uniform for service in the imperial royal army, as stated in my communication of this day which had been dispatched when the note of your excellency, as above, was delivered to me.

It is satisfactory to know that Feinknopf has been allowed his liberty pending the decision of his case by the imperial royal government, but it is still important that his rights under the solemn guarantees of treaty shall be promptly and fully recognized to the end that he may have the liberty of action accorded to any citizen of the United States, who, visiting this country, has violated no law of the Imperial Royal Government.

And I have to urge most earnestly that the decision which has beer, so long delayed, to the injury of an American citizen who has been the subject of military prosecution at Krakau, may be rendered at as early a day as possible.

I renew, &c.,