Bandai, Bishop and V. G., Cologne, Germany, to Archbishop John Baptist Purcell, of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1874 August 14

Acknowledging Purcell's letter of July 7 in which Purcell gave the testimony of Fathers Menge and Schoenfield on the death of John Mathias Fischer nd expressed his sympathy to Archbishop Paul Melchers n his persecution Bandai states that he has learned form the investigation that there is a certain Jacob Ackermann in the city of Lafayette, Indiana hose disposition would be of great value. He does not know in what diocese Lafayette is but he has been persuaded that it belongs to the archdiocese of Cincinnati and he asks that Ackermann be asked the enclosed questions for the Defensor Matrimonii through some one deputed by Purcell or the ordinary of the place. He asks that the answers to the questions be sent to him. :: II-5-f L.S. Latin 2pp. 12mo.