EXTRADITION SOUGHT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21431, 4 September 1931, Page 12

EXTRADITION SOUGHT

A TECHNICAL OBJECTION

COURT GRANTS ADJOURNMENT. (Per United Press Association;) . , WELLINGTON, September 3. When the extradition application case in respect of Duncan Stewart Reid,, alleged to have misappropriated £2OOO when a clerk at the Barranquilla branch of the London and . South. American Bank, came before-Mr E. Page, 'S.M., to : day Mr W. E. Leicester, counsel for Reid, made no suggestion that the evidence had not disclosed an offence, but raised.the technical objection that the accused was entitled to be .discharged owing, to. the order for extradition not having been made within 30 days of the accused’s arrest in Wellington. , . Mr Leicester painted a very bad picture of what wqyld happen to the accused if he had to .undergo punishment in Columbia, describing the conditions as appalling and frightful,, .and said he was not endeavouring, toprevent extradition with a view to the accused escaping punishment, but- that he might escape it at Barranquilla. He was a British subject and entitled to British justice. : Mr ’ Page adjourned the hearing to enable Mr P. S; K- Macassey (tor the Crown) to go into the point raised.