TRAFFIC IN MARCONIS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 92, 9 April 1914, Page 6

TRAFFIC IN MARCONIS.

FENNER'S PROSECUTION. [Bt Eljotkxc Tbligeaph—Coptbiqht] f United Peek* Association.] (Received 9.30 a.iri.) ' London, April 8. Mr Bodkin, K.C., at the prosecution of Fenner, said that owing to the large number of transactions, pnormous sums were involved, and he must deal with several cases separately.

Fenner was arrested in Paris on February Util. He left England in March or April of last year, and lived in Paris, at any rate since July 23rd, in an hotel in the Etoiie quarter, under the assumed name of Edward Warren. He was arrested at his hotel by Detective Bertin, who asked him his name. Mr Fenner, taken by surprise, began to stutter out his real name, but st'opped himself in time, and replied “Warren.” The detective then said, “Come now, aren’t you Mr Fenner?” “Yes, all right, I’m Fenner. 1 shall not attempt to delay extradition, and would like to go back to England as quickly as possible,” replied the supposed Warren. Fenner at once stated that he did not intend to oppose his extradition, but even with a willing prisoner the process of extradition in France takes. about six or seven weeks. Departmental machinery is usually slow. There are no legal preliminaries in the French Code corresponding to those of the English code, and no magistrate has to he satisfied that there is a case for extradition, the only question to, be determined before the Judge d’Tnstruction being that of identity. Mr Fenner appeared to have considered himself quite safe from arrest. Every morning he spent the fashionable quarter of an hour in the Bois de Boulogne. He took most of his meals in restaurants in the Etoiie quarter, and apparently had a large circle of English friends or acquaintances in Paris, for on the day of his arrest he lunched with an English friend at a restaurant in the Avenue de la Grande Armee, and then went to a Duval establishment, where lie met several other acquaintances. :■