EXTRADITION SOUGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 209, 4 September 1931, Page 9

EXTRADITION SOUGHT.

CLERK FROM SOUTH AMERICA

ALLEGED THEFT OF £2000. BRITISH JUSTICE DESIRED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. When an application for extradition in respect of Duncan Stewart Reidj who is alleged to have misappropriated £2000 when a clerk at the - Barranquilla (Colombia, South America) branch Of the London and South American Bank, came before Mr. E. Page, S.M., iu the Police, Court to-day, Mr. Leicester, counsel for Rcid, made no suggestion that the evidence had not disclosed an offence, but raised'a technical objection that accused was entitled to be discharged owing' to an order for extradition not having been made within 30 days,of accused's arrest in Wellington. Mr. Leicester painted a very bad picturf of what would happen to accused if he had to undergo. punishment in Colombia, describing the conditions as appalling and frightful. He said he was not endeavouring to prevent extradition with a view to accused- escaping pimishment, but that he might escape it at Barranquilla. Accused wa>s a British subject and was entitled to British justice. Mr. Page adjourned the hearing to enable Mr. Macaesey, Crown solicitor, to go into the point raised.