1892 
Salazar 
(Mexico) 
saying that the robbers had been caught and articles recovered. The 
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next morning (8th) I went to Lerrna with Goldman to make our depositions 
in the matter. There we found nearly all the articles, and after the 
depositions were told that Goldman must remain here under charge of the 
doctor called in by the local judge until the cut in his forehead had 
healed. My protests against this useless proceeding only brought a 
shrug of the shoulders and the intimation that if I came back in a 
week he might be permitted to leave. At the end of a week, I was there 
again, but was again put off for another period. At end of this latter 
time when awaiting Goldman's arrival in Mexico, he telegraphed that they 
refused to let him go without paying the doctor for his services. 
As these had been forced upon him by the judge and neither asked 
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nor required by us, 1 considered this a palpable imposition and at once 
laid the matter before the American Charge d*affairs (Mr. C, A. Dough¬ 
erty), and he laid the matter before the Secretary of the State here 
(Senor Mar local) who said that while the law authorized a wounded 
person being kept within jurisdiction of the judge, it did not author¬ 
ize ary bills for services to be enforced against the victim. In a 
couple of days, Goldman was permitted to leave and on his arrival here 
he told me that the local authorities were quite decided that he should 
pay the bill of the doctor before they would permit him to leave, and 
were rather indignant when he showed them my telegram telling him not 
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to pay the doctor. Two days later when they had heard from the Secre- 
tary of State he says that they suddenly became very polite and, re¬ 
turning him the articles, told him that they had nothing to do with the 
doctor's bill and that he could leave whenever he liked. Two of the 
men who robbed Goldman confessed and claimed that they were the only 
ones engaged in the affairJ 
While I was in Lerma on the 8th attending to this matter, I heard 
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