Extradition proceedings of important nature were begun at the Mixed Court on Tuesday morning! when a question was raised by the defending lawyer as to whether or rot a foreigner, subject to Chinese law, could be extradited in connexion with a criminal offence alleged to have been committed in a foreign country.
The ease was before Mr. T. Sigveland, the Norwegian Vice-Consul and Assessor appointed by the Consular Body to sit. in German ense ind Magistrate Zau, Robert demand, 34, a German jeweller, of i2A Nanking Road, being charged "for that he whilst in Sourabaya, Java, prior to March 1, 1926, did appropriate and convert to his own! use certain goods, viz, watches and clocks to the valve of Guilders 10,-
C00 which came under his management and his control, being the property of his employers'
Det-Inspr. J. Hunter said that, Monday, acting on instructions, came to the Mixed Court and applied for a warrant for the accused, this Doing granted. At 3.13 p.m. on Hondas, accompanied by Det-Sat, Tinkler, he arrested accused on the warrant at the shop at 12A Nanking} Road. After arresting him, witness} closed the shop on instructions from the Netherlands Consul-General, police guard was placed at the shop and witness took the keys to the police station, He would ask the court for an order regarding the property.
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