EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS
, ■ .®’ . "" . . , THE SHARE SCRIP CASE .-—. ■ ■ « [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 17. The decision of Mr J. H. Lnxford, S.M., that' the depositions taken in Sydney against William Campbell and Madge Mnnro were admissible as evidence for the purposes of extradition' was challenged in the Supreme Court when H. E. Harding and Mr Cl. H. Arndt, acting on behalf of Mnnro, applied before Mr Justice Blair for a writ of prohibition.' Campbell and Mnnro are charged with the theft of share scrip .in Sydney, and the police arc seeking their extradition to New South Wales. The admissibility of the depositions was challenged on the ground that the magistrate in Sydney refused to allow a legal representative of the defendant the right of audience at the taking of the depositions. . Tim writ was refused,' Mr- Justice Blair saying that the magistrate’s altitude Avas correct. 7
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Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 26
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