Melchers Paul, Archbishop of, Cologne, Germany, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1873 July 15

In the matrimonial case of Margaret Fischer, nee Kohlenbeck whose husband John Mathias Fischer left her in 1852, at Melchers' request Purcell had Father John H. Schoenfeld interview her father John, her sister, Mary Schoenberg, her aunt, Anna Catharine Kern, who lives at 219 Sinn Street, Cincinnati, and send on the information to Melchers. For this Melchers is grateful but at the request of the Sacred Congregation through Cardinal Patrizi on June 15 of this year, he must obtain further depositions from the son of Catharine Kern. This son claims that during the Civil War in America he saw Fischer by chance among a group of soldiers. Purcell is requested to send some ecclesiastical person to this son to get his deposition for Melchers so that the Sacred Congregation can more fully decide on the certainty of the death or survival of this Fischer. :: II-5-f L.S. Latin 3pp. 12mo.