D, S. Duncan testified that, when the accused was brought to the Tocat police headquarters, he confessed to passport forgeries but when asked the trath of this by the Judge, Belitsky indignantly denied it, Two days later a Harbin police official arrived here with a passport. for the release of the man to Harbin, but not a proper dispatch warrant. The official testified that the accused had been guilty of certain passport irregularities and asked to explain to his he absconded and fled to The accused "said he Intives and professed ignorance as to the passport matter.
Mr, Stevens then asked what the accused had done and was told that pending the handing over by the keys to his effec, in authorities could place no definite charge against him he was holding all the evidence. The Deputy then said that the Court had no power to extradite a men unless specific proof was presented as to his guilt and as this was not forthcoming in the present instance, the Deputy was against the exteadition. In testimony, the Harbin official said, "We cannot touch his office, If' we were to break open the office the accused would say' that we had interfered with the papers and we would lose all our The Deputy could not see the matter in quite this light and asked how the officials knew the man was guilty if they had not opened his office and gone through his do-cements?
The reply was that the passports from Iarbin came in three parts, two of them bearing photographs of the persons to whom they are issued and that one of these was detained at the office of the accused. An instance was quoted in which man had a passport and when the uthgyities looked up his file in Boliffky's office they found a different photograph. The man. in question is alleged to have said he paid $80
The Deputy's Refusal Here the accused made a different story of his difficulties and stated that he lonned the keys of his desk to another man and that the new-
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