FINANCE FRAUDS
WHIG HI” SIN DIGN ATION
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrig.
New York, Match 17.
Whitaker Wright, on his way to tk. Federal law buildings, to answer chat fc of fraud and publishing false of accounts, expressed his inteiiticn ■< waive extradition formalities. Ho he wished to return to Loudon. He tc tended that the money had been Itgi run tel v lost, and declared that fcst 1 Finlay, the British Attorney-General,hr told him he was not guilty. Ho claim, that although lie was an Englishman l, birth be was an American citizen. Aftj the formal opening of tho case he was a uiauded to Wednesday, counsel reserviq his decision regarding tho waiving of tH extruditiou formalities in London. In the Houso of Commons Sir B. Fit lay, in reply to a question, stated the tho Crown would bear the expense c Wright's extradition. It would be de cided later as to tho costs of the prose cution.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 844, 19 March 1903, Page 2
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