VIOSCA, Consul to Morgan, June 12, 1884

Consul Viosca to Mr. Morgan.

Sir: * * * On the 11th of May last Captain Caleb deserted the private house wherein he was confined, committing a breach of parole, under which custody he had been kept before and after he was sentenced to suffer the penalty of five years of imprisonment, leaving the said house (from information acquired from outside circles) on the night of the date above mentioned, when he absconded on board of the Mexican steamer Estado de Sonora, and have also been informed that he was conveyed to Guaymas, and that he there took the railroad train for San Francisco, Cal., where he now still remains. The circumstances of his escape never came to the knowledge of this consulate until the 30th of May, since which time I have had no chance for communicating the incident.

I am, &c.,