Letter from William Loeb, Secretary to the President to Captain Frank Frantz

This item includes a letter that encloses a copy of the report from the Department of Justice about the O.A. Mitscher case.

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34221. EOC. October 20, 1904. Mr. Horace Speed, United States Attorney, Guthrie, Oklahoma. Sir:- I have received your letter of the 17th instant, concerning Mr. Mitscher and have to say that you are author- ized to accept the offer made through Mr. Flynn of which I telegraphed you. See that the money is properly paid into the Treasury. As to the part of your letter referring to allotments, the papers are not now before me and consequently your letter is not fully understood. However, I do not suppose any fürther instructions are necessary. If you can get no sufficient evidence, of course there would be no use in attempting to prosecute. If you can get such evidence prosecution is not to be interfered with by the acceptance of interest money. Respectfully, Attorney General.