The Archive · 1903

UNITED STATES

CONSULAR COURT

Shanghai, 9th March. sfoze J. Goon ow Esq. Consul-General, Judicial Bentley, was Mar! ser Dowell. who ed the accused apon hai, was present in Ca appeared to argue og extradition of the occu:

ant stated that there al of the charges against but no date for its hearing He lived under the his sed. sto him had ne He would prefer to wai it in tua warrant for hu arrest od from Manila to being sent back now.

A witness named Tre-sier was called, stated on th that he knew that tis deiondaut. was convicted before a Court sitting in Manila, but the ju told him that the sentence auted a new trial, '0 date, (up to the time, the 24th of his leaving Man He y what the amount. of bail <but he knew that a new trial was nine contended that the Court aid no power to send the defendant back hon the str 1 of the telegram him. He quoted a see tion land it down tha Peon, according to United States law, "i on the production extradition papers. ed out that the after" having did not think dant had "could be vy seed centd be that he failed to see complished by ant should be al of the papers man wits not, eet as he would be itt for instance. He avy. and extradition case in the slightest had a dispatch' from or general of the Philli pine reputable hho awd and anew trial and The defer dant ad-{that he was conviered ud 1. He had left the juris on of the Court that convicted hint hanghai with the ident tion of tice. ere were one or two things, which could dune ander the circumstances. Une to detain the defendant here until the the other the earliest Court was here to see just done. He keep the defer lant here for or send him back at once. His tion wag to send him back at possible moment. sume expressed the belief that. ivr this Court nor a Court in the ces had pow ition to Mani His propos that this Court, like any other, was Grovted by the law, was a creature of the law, created by the statutes of the (States, and it could not go

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