CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10] — Page 358

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Supreme Court to extradite the prisoner was under the consideration of the American Supreme Court at Shanghai who are I presume in telegraphic communication with the State Department at Washington.

Your Lordship will gather from the foregoing that a peculiarly brutal murder has taken place which has much excited local sentiment. The evidence which I have of course not detailed at any length appears to be overwhelming against the prisoner, and his identity is unquestioned.

In these circumstances the Attorney-General suggested that I should telegraph a summary of the case to Your Lordship which I did on the 26th August, inviting at the same time your attention to the case of Jackson in 1874. That case was not entirely similar to the present one for it referred to a crime committed on the high seas, but the supplemental opinion of the Attorney-General of Hongkong appears to exactly cover the present case, and to show that a prisoner in such circumstances would escape from justice owing to the inability of the American Courts at the Chinese Treaty Ports to extradite him. Even if the Attorney-General's opinion in 1874, endorsed by the Law Officers of the Crown, held

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353 Supreme Court to extradite the prisoner was under the consideration of the American Supreme Court at Shanghai who are I presume in telegraphic communication with the State Department at Washington. 3. Your Lordship will gather from the foregoing that a peculiarly brutal murder has taken place which has much excited local sentiment. The evidence which I have of course not detailed at any length appears to be overwhelming against the prisoner, and his identity is unquestioned. 4. In these circumstances the Attorney-General suggested that I should telegraph a summary of the case to Your Lordship which I did on the 26th August, inviting at the same time your attention to the case of Jackson in 1874. That case was not entirely similar to the present one for it referred to a crime committed on the high seas, but the supplemental opinion of the Attorney-General of Hongkong appears to exactly cover the present case, and to show that a prisoner in such circumstances would escape from justice owing to the inability of the American Courts at the Chinese Treaty Ports to extradite him. Even if the Attorney-General's opinion in 1874, endorsed by the Law Officers of the Crown, held

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353 Supreme Court to extradite the prisoner was under the consideration of the American Supreme Court at Shanghai who are I presume in telegraphic communication with the State Department at Washington. 3. Your Lordship will gather from the foregoing that a peculiarly brutal murder has taken place which has much excited local sentiment. The evidence which I have of course not detailed at any length appears to be overwhelming against the prisoner, and his identity is unquestioned. 4. In these circumstances the Attorney-General suggested that I should telegraph a Goo 30758 summary of the case to Your Lordship which I did on the 26th. August. inviting at the same time your attention to the case of Jackson in 1874. That case was not entirely similar to the present one for it referred to a crime committed on the high seas, but the supplemental opinion of the Attorney-General of Hongkong appears to exactly cover the present case, and to show that a prisoner in such circumstances would escape from justice owing to the inability of the American Courts at the Chinese Treaty Ports to extradite him. Even if the Attorney-General's opinion in 1874, endorsed by the Law Officers of the Crown, held

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Supreme Court to extradite the prisoner was under the

consideration of the American Supreme Court at Shanghai who

are I presume in telegraphic communication with the State

Department at Washington.

Your Lordship will gather from

the foregoing that a peculiarly brutal murder has taken

place which has much excited local sentiment. The evidence

which I have of course not detailed at any length appears

to be overwhelming against the prisoner, and his identity

is unquestioned.

In these circumstances the

Attorney-General suggested that I should telegraph a

Goo 30758

summary of the case to Your Lordship which I did on the

26th. August. inviting at the same time your attention

to the case of Jackson in 1874. That case was not entirely

similar to the present one for it referred to a crime

committed on the high seas, but the supplemental opinion

of the Attorney-General of Hongkong appears to exactly

cover the present case, and to show that a prisoner in

such circumstances would escape from justice owing to the

inability of the American Courts at the Chinese Treaty

Ports to extradite him. Even if the Attorney-General's

opinion in 1874, endorsed by the Law Officers of the Crown,

held

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