Mr. Runyon to Mr.
Olney.
Embassy
of the United States,
Berlin, October 17,
1895. (Received Oct. 30.)
No. 391.]Sir: I have the honor to send on the overleaf a
copy of my telegram of yesterday (16th instant1) in regard to the Stern case,
touching the postponement of the execution of the sentence of
imprisonment. On the same day (13th instant) on which I received your
telegram on that subject, I, without delay, wrote to Mr. M. Bernstein,
of Munich, one of the attorneys of Mr. Stern, on the subject of an
application by him for the postponement, suggesting that perhaps before
my letter should have come to his hands he would have received
instructions on the matter from Mr. Stern himself, and such appears to
have been the case in fact. I yesterday received his reply, a
translation of which I send herewith as being of interest in the present
stage of the affair.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 391.]
Mr. Bernstein
to Mr. Runyon.
[Translation.]
Munich, October 14,
1895.
Esteemed Sir: In response to your esteemed
communication I beg to inform you as follows: I have already, on the
7th instant, applied for Mr. Stern, at his request,
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for a four-months’ postponement of the
punishment. In consideration of this request for a postponement, the
first States attorney of the Royal “land” court at Schweinfurt has
directed the “Amts” attorney at the “Amts” court at Kissingen, Mr.
Von Baumer, to make investigations, and Mr. Von Baumer has sent me
an order directing me to acquaint him with the facts which make it
especially detrimental to Mr. Stern to undergo the punishment at
once. The “Amts” attorney informs me that then the consul-general at
New York will thereupon be ordered to investigate the facts in the
matter.
I thereupon replied that I would be in a position to give him further
information by the 12th of November, as Mr. Stern had not given me
any further information regarding the affairs in question. The Paris
representative of Mr. Stern, Mr. Furschein, who is now on his way to
America, assured me before his departure that he would, upon his
arrival at New York, at once transmit to me the desired information.
According to the statement of the latter it is not to be doubted
that Mr. Stern, as the head of his large business establishment, is
compelled to make, in his business, in the coming months
arrangements which can not be postponed.
With high esteem,
Bernstein,
Attorney at Law.
