The Archive · 1928

Unauthorized Investigators

Therefore, under the dispositions of the Federal Code of Penal Procedture, this party must file recourse of appeal in both effects, basing it on the following breaches:

There is an infraction of the Federal Code in connection with the Treaty of Washington of 1899 between the Mexican United States and the Republic of China inasmuch as the investigation of offences: under Federal Law belongs to the Mexican Consul abroad, In the present ease the alleged preliminary investigations were all made by pertens who entitled themselves as, employees of the police of the Shanghat Municipal Council, but with no authority whatsoever from the Consul for Mexico LI. On leaving unfulfilled those essential formalities of procedure, Article 14 of the Federal Constitu-

Provisional when the Police knew full well that} he was a Mexican citizen.

Defendant was then released and Dr. Fischer intimated that ceedings would be instituted against} the Police in the Court of Consuls,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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