EXTRADITION CASE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20333, 4 September 1931, Page 6

EXTRADITION CASE.

COUNSEL RAISES TECHNICAL POINT. ' ' (PRESS ASSOCIATION TILEOBAU.) WELLINGTON, September 3, When an extradition application case in respect to Duncan • Stewart Reid, who is alleged to have misappropriated £'2ooo when a clerk at tho Barranquilla branch the London and South American Bank, came before Mr Page, S.M., to-day, Mr Leicester, counsel for Rcid, made no suggestion that thb evidence liad not disclosed an offence, but raised a technical objoction. Accused was entitled to l>e discharged owing to the order for Jlis extradition not having been nfade; within 30 days of accused's arrest in Wellington, be said. .Mr Leicester painted a very' bad picture of what would happen to accused if he had to undergo punishment in Colombia, describing the conditions as appalling and 'frightful, and said that hp was not endeavouring "to prevent Ins extradition with a view to accused's escaping punishment, but that ho might escape it at Barranquilla. He was a British subject and was entitled to British justice. Mr Page adjourned the hearing to enable Mr Maca§sev for the Crown to go into tho point raised.