Postal Fraud in Cuba

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 22, 1900

Postal Fraud in Cuba

SEVERAL American citizens have been found implicated in systematically defrauding the United States post office in Cuba, of about a hundred thousand dollars before discovery. And now the chief of the embezzlers asks, “How can either the United States or Cuba prosecute an American citizen in the foreign country of Cuba? and how can a man be prosecuted in the United States for what was done in the foreign country of Cuba? These are pertinent, though impertinent, questions. And it remains to be seen “how” any of “this can be done, without a further developing of absolute power on the part of the United States.