BRINGING SUSPECTS BACK HERE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 303, 17 May 1911, Page 8

BRINGING SUSPECTS BACK HERE

AND HOW IT IS DONE. Auckland, Monday. An important step has been taken in the investigation of the burglary of Kohn's jewellery shop in Auckland. On Friday warrants were issued for the arrest of the man and the woman who were apprehended in San Francisco on a charge of stealing the jewellery, and the necessary papers will bo taken to San Francisco by Detective Scott, who will leave Auckland bv the Aorangi on June 3 to bring the two suspects back to New Zealand. The papers comprise four sets, each of which consists of 50 sheets. An interesting, but rarely used, legal procedure has to be followed in connection with the case, as the requirements of the Extradilion Act and of the convention between Great Britain and the United States (1S00) are very precise and exacting. All extradition treaties provide that no prisoner shall lip tried 011 any offences other than those for which he was surrendered. and this provision necessitates that the extradition papers shall be prepared with the utmost exactitude. The informations must set out the various offences. and every step in the proceeuinirs must be properly connected with each preceding step, so that no flaw can possibly be found. Previous New Zealand extradition cases include those of J>r. Orpen (1899), who was brought back from San Francisco to answer a charge of murder; Robert Gibb (1907), who was brought from Honolulu on a charge of false pretences and theft; and D. 0. McTntyre (1<)09), who was brought from South America on a charge of embezzlement.