AN INTERESTING CASE.
(Per. Press Association.) Wellington, last night,
I Yesterday Mr Justice Chapman heard I an application on behalf of Edward John I Tressider for a writ of habeaus corpus to I issue, and that Tressider should bo disI charged from custody on the grounds that I prisoner was in custody of Sergeant Coates, | of Tasmania, under an order made by the j Wellington Stipendiary Magistrate under I the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881; that it I was not proved before the Magistrate on I the making of the order that the offence I wa3 an offence punishable by law in TasI mania: that it was not proved that the j warrant issued in Tasmania was duly I authenticated as directed by statute ; and upon the general ground that accused was illegally detained under tho Magistrate’s order. The Wellington Magistrate had ! extradited Tressider to Tasmania on the application of Sergeant Coates,of the Tasmanim police,tho charge on which he was wanted being that he, being a person of sufficient means, did without reasonable cause or excuse leave his male child without means of support for a period of throe consecutive months, this being a misdemeanor under law. Having heard argument, his Honor refused the application. j . *
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1476, 9 June 1905, Page 2
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