247.
No.
Hongkong.
My Lord,
C O 417/38184
RECEIVED
SEP 30 001907
Government House,
Hongkong, 28th September, 1907.
36581
In continuation of my Despatch No. 233 of the 14th instant, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the decision of the United States Government to send the prisoner Adsetts to Manila in a United States War Vessel (to which I referred in paragraph 4 of that Despatch) has been duly given effect to. I thereupon applied to the Government of the Philippine Islands for his extradition, which was at once granted, and the prisoner is now in this Colony standing his trial.
2. Consul Brady informs me that before leaving Chefoo, Adsetts was brought up before the American Consul-General, Mr Fowler, and formally charged with murder. He was not asked to plead, but he submitted a protest that his arrest was illegal and unjustified, and petitioned for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. His protest was over-ruled by the Consul-General acting under instructions.
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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800.
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