The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-04-15

clerk in the consulate under the elder
Rawitz, applied to the State Department
| for the post of Vice Consul at Warsaw.
| William 4. Holloway, of Indiana, the
| United States Consul General at st.
| Petersburg indorsed both applications.
| Then DR.. Campbell appeared, metaphor
| cally on the scene. He sent an appJica-
| tion for the Warsaw Office to the State
! Department from London, 1t was in
dorsed by william Mckinley Osborne, of
Massachusetts, cousin OF President Nc
Kinley. and United States Consul General
at London.
DR.. Campbell. ii was stated. spoke the
Russian German, French, Italian, and, of
course. the English, languages.
Consul General Holloway sent word to
DR.. Campbell that while he had Endorsed
Rawitz, he was not opposed to DR.. Camp
bells appointment.
DR.. Campbell Appointed.
Following out its policy to appoint
Americans to consular offices in prefer
ence to foreigners whenever it was posi-
BILE to get Americans to serve. the State
Department recommended that DR.. Camp
bell be appointed and President RoOse-
welt sent his nomination to the Senate last
December. The nomination was promptly
saw. Then his troubles began.
DR.. Campbell has Travelled extensively
in Europe The vseing of his passports
showed that. In the course of his wan
behring's he visited Warsaw and there met
a young Polish lady, who is said to be an
heir to a fortune
The young lady's mother opposed the
attentions of the American physician and
one day her daughter was missing. She
had mr. nhnn nd
they were married.
Soon after DR.. Campbell was appointed
to the Warsaw consulship an anonymous
letter came to the State Department from
that place. 1t said that Dr. Campbell had
kidnapped the young lady and had forced
her to marry him. Then another anony-
nous letter came, and then more. all to
the same effect with regard to DR.. Camp
BELLS marriage to the Polish heiress. |
was in realty Finkelstein the Austrian |
from Lemberg.
Enemies in Warsaw.
1t was evident to the department that |
DR.. Campbell had enemies in Warsaw and |
that a systematic attempt was being made |
to force the department to recall him. |
There was nothing, however, to show that |
he had acted dishonorably in his mar |
riage or was masquerading under an as
sumed name.
The department had been informed on |
it considered reliable that The |
of DR.. Campbell and the Polish
heiress was the elimination of a love
affair. and that she had gone away with |
him willingly. Besides. it heard she was
Of age, and it did not think it likely that
a grown young woman could be abducted.
DR.. Campbell's naturalization papers
and other evidence submitted by him were
as proof that the Finkelstein
story had no foundation in fact. AS far as
ian be learned nobody was willing TO
make that accusation over his own name,
except Borodynski. who secured the posi-
ton of vice consul on December 10. 1901.
i've days before Dr. Campbell was ap-
pointed consul.
Cannot Perform Functions
Meanwhile the State Department has
not been informed that the Russian gov
has granted an exequatur to DR..
Campbell. He cannot perform consular
functions until this has been done. 1t IS
believed in some quarters here that Camp
BELLS enemies have succeeded in having
he Russian Forign Office withhold the {
'xequatur in the hope that the State De- |
)artment will cancel his appointment. ,
The story comes from st. Petersburg .
hat the failure of Russia to grant recog-
lition to DR.. Campbell is due to the fac:
hat an exequatur was issued TO Vladis-
aw RawitZ. the impression that he had
'een appointed consul having been given
~ inquiries by Mr.. Charlemagne Tower. r
he United States Ambassador at St Y
Petersburg, as to whether RawitZ would a
Re acceptable TO Russia. Officials here
this story absurd. They say
hat an exequatur is granted to a consul e
nly on the production of his commission.
nd RawitZ did not receive commission. n
he delay OF the Russian government in 4,
an exequatur to Campbell is re- :,
arded as strange.
1t was intimated at the State Depart
lent yesterday that the department be- E
ewes it knows the instigator OF the u
nonymous letters. Interesting develop I
tents are expected in the case soon. =
he fact that DR.. Campbell did not apply !,
,r leave of absence, and the additional II
lct that he has not informed the de- ="
artment that an exequatur has been
ranted to Rawitz lead to the belief that
e will not quit his post. Unless some {
ositive proof should be furnished that
? is not Campbell but Finkelstein or
lie Russian Government declines to issue
Sequatur to him he will not be disturbed.