CLERK’S EXTRADITION

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1931, Page 2

CLERK’S EXTRADITION

COLUMBIAN PRISON-HORRORS. , WELLINGTON, September 3. When an extradition application case in . respect of Duncan Stewart Reid) alleged to have misappropriated £2OOO when clerk at the Barranquilla (Columbia), Branch of the London and South American Bank, came before Mr Page S.M., to-day, Mr Leicester, counsel for Reid, made no suggestion that the evidence had not disclosed an offence, but he reRnU technical objection. He said that the accused was entitled to be discharged owing to the order for his extradition not having been made within 30 days of the accused’s arrest in Wellington. Mr Leicester painted very bad pi°' ture of what would happen to the accused if he were to undergo punMiment in Columbia, describing the conditions as appalling and frightful. He said that he was not endeavouring to prevent extradition with., a Hew to the accused escaping punishment, but that he might escape it at Barranquilla. He was a British subject, and was entitled to British justice. Mr Page, adjourned the hearing to enable Mr Macassey, for th e Crown, to go into the point raised.