The Counselor of State , VON UXKULL to Bancroft, March 17, 1874

Mr. Von Uxkull to Mr. Bancroft.

His excellency the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, Mr. Bancroft, has been pleased, in his esteemed note of the 9th of this month, to express to the undersigned the wish to receive more exact information respecting a statement contained in the Ulmer Schnellpost, that a criminal by the name of Rohrer, condemned for triple murder, had received a pardon upon condition of emigration to America.

The undersigned has not failed to request of the royal ministry of justice information on the subject, and has the honor, as the result of his inquiry, to communicate to his excellency that neither to a criminal by the name of Rohrer, nor to any other criminal condemned for murder, has a pardon under condition of emigration to America been either offered or granted; and, moreover, that pardons on this condition are not granted.

The undersigned has the honor respectfully to add that possibly the statement in question may have confounded the case of Johannes Roser, of Laupheim, condemned to imprisonment for eighteen years, to whom, after serving out the half of this term, in consideration of his exemplary conduct in the prison, and upon occasion of the birthday of His Majesty, the remainder of his sentence was by royal decree of the 4th of this month remitted upon condition of permanent absence from the German Empire.

The undersigned takes with pleasure this occasion to renew the assurance of his most distinguished consideration.

For the minister of foreign affairs.