The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-20

sells, aisntrred the Jewels portraits and SETTINGS
yet buried there and restored them the prime
thus, through the agency OF Your petitioner, seeu-
ring TO her the restitution of the entire felony with
the exception only of tese which the felon had
sold for his pr rsonal expenses, aad that portion
YET in jeopardy In the possession OF the New York
custom house When the information of events
so siDRulsrly fortunate was returned to New York,
the Chsvalier Huygins felt himself bOund 10 OBJ
which thus, and IN the perous of the feloa,
your petitioner had secured TO his principals your
petitioner had also relieved his government from
The engagement 10 writing which he had given to
RoumaRe for the $4,000 forms, and, as that was a
sum from the payment of which your petitioner
has saved his Clients irrespective of all other ser
vices, IT at least then due to your petitioner.
To this your petitioner replied distinctly as is set
forth in the letter OF he 10Th of September that he
would not receive II as a reward for the delivering
up Of criminal 10 justice, but if offered to him BY
the government irrespective of such considerations,
and a CONSUL fee, he would receive il as such
From the time of the arrest of the feon, and till
after the departure Of his wiz and RoamaRe, great
interest was attached by The officers of the customs
hsd been concealed near Brooklyn. But nothing
had induced either the wife of Roumage to dis
close 10 them any fact by which to detect them.
TIL The 9Th OF September following.
On the 7th of August. the communication of the
minister Of the Netherlands TO the Department of
State Of the 3lst Of July, asking the surrender of
the prisoner, was answered by the Department Of
State, that the President did not conceive himself
authorized by the sttuton to do so; but the
DE- apartment, at the same time, expressed an OPT
Mon that both ohjecs might be effected without
Infringement of the constitution, and with as much
certainty, by the interposition OF the authorities,
as by an exact compliance with the request of tho
minister OF the Netherlands.
Your petitioner, through the minister OF the
Netherlands explained TO the Secretary OF State
the fact that, for the protection of the frontier OF
the State against depre datons, crimes, and escapes
and fro across the Canadian, frontier, the legs-
lature of the State of New York, in reciprecauon
W ~ IA M ma
statute then Incorporated in the Revised Statutes,
(vo l, page l64,) enacting that the Governor, In
his discretion, might deliver to justice any psrson
who should ne charged with having committed,
without the jurisdiction OF the United States, any
crime, except treason, on the Iequisition OF the
duly authorized ministers or officers OF the gov
eminent within the jurisdiction of which the crime
should be charged TO have been committed, upon
such evidence If the guilt of the person COM
miIed would be required had the crime charged
been so committed within the State OF New York.
And the minister accordingly, while communica-
ting his provision to the department, on the 7h of
August, asked Of the Secretary of State to take
those statutes into consideration, and officially to
support the application to the Governor OF the State
of New York, II had been previously asked for
from the general government, through the depart
mtnt, by his communication OF the 3ist OF J oy
The Secretary of State accordingly did, on
the 9th day of August, and again on the 2ith
| Of the same month, ask it. On the 10th OF
| August, the Governor of the State OF New
| Yolk granted provisional mandate, and on
I
! date, to the sheriff of the city and county OF
/ New York, commanding him to deliver tho
| feon into the custody OF the minister OF the Ne
therlands the end that the felon might be placed
under the jurisdiction of that kingdom, to be dealt
| with according 10 It's laws.
The prisoner, on or about the 23d of August, pro-
cured Labeas corpus, returnabe on the "a OF Sep
tent Der following, when, after full argument, on
| the mandate Of the Governor OF the State OF New
York for the extradiiion of the feion, thus testing
its validity and the cdptos and order to hold to bail
I 81. StnfAG lad
TO custody, and there detained, under the capias.
/ On the same day. the minister of the Netherlands,
! by communication of that date, and as appears
| by his communication annexed, OF the 9th OF No
vtmber following, had complained OF the continued
tendency Of the action for he penalty against the
| prisoner, impeachment TO the execution OF
mandate, obtained on the joint application OF both
governments, earnestly urging re,raxn, ana com
| planning also of the requirement by the CUSTOM
! house of the surrender TO them OF the six pieces
obtained by Roumage through the wife of the felon,
which the minister had wished TO use as proofs OF
the identity Of tne whole, and upon which pieces,
| as soon obtained, yet another libel had been
! placed by the custom house, Immediately on the
attainment OF them .
be seem on nspt ction of the letter of the Cbevaler
| Higgins, of the 9th OF November, In how far
the contamination Of the wishes OF both the GO
| venment of the Netherlands and the Department
OF STATE were controlled and paralized by the OH
| GERS Of the customs and the Treasury Department
Itself, which, in terms, instructed the Collector
charge the felon from the action at law insii-
tuted in the name of the United States against the
prisoner for the penalty, and that the Marshal of
the district would, therefore, be expected by the
| department. to retain the felon until he should be
/ legally discharged by authority of the United
States, until further instructions should BE- given
from the Treasury Department.
Still further TO embarrass the attainment OF the.
objects in view, Mr.. Price, as counsel in the case,
having been defeated ON the habcds corpus, resored
to on en,iquated proceeding, by homine rePegtando,
as dilatory action, through which IL was hoped
The purpose OF the ministry, for the extraditon OF
| the ielon, could be still further delayed.
IL should here, in justice 10 your petitioner, be
stated that full pardon OF the teton (and ct which
a copy is nnnexed) had, from about the COM
mencement OF his services, been Obtained by your
pc titioner from the minister OF the Netheriands,
and which, TO the general knowledge OF the counsel
OF the prisoner, Of Mr. Price, also, his counsel,
OF the officers OF the customs and yonr petitioner
| believes, Of the cabinet at Washington, had been
continually proposed TO the felon, the sole con-
dtion that he would CONSENT at the expense of the
government of the Netherlands, to 90 10 the
Hague and there confess and explain the incidents
OF the felony; and an engagement the part Of
the government Of the Netherlands was coupled
with H. 10 pay the passages Of the culprit and his
child-who was, in that event, to go with him
back TO the United States, when he had done SO,
If he wished il.
On or about the Ith Of September the prisoner,
aware that his wife had gone of with Roumage,
and that the minister possessed the SIX pieces OF
the Jewels above alluded io-ihey having been
buried by hims, IT, in prcsence Of his wife, with the
rest, near Brooklyn--rightly conjec Roumage
and bis wife had dsinterrcd and gone off with the
residue. To assure himself of this fact, he wrote
TO the collector, ask ny him TO come TO the prison
in which he was confined, saying he wished to
make confession TO him ct million (of frascs in
vslue) Of jewels that he hal concealed in a wood
in Brooklyn, which he was desifous of delivering
into his possession.
The collector the marshal, the secretary of the
embassy of the Netherlands, and your petitioner
took the prisoner, in charge Of officers, the next
day, to the place which Yves shown BY the prisoner
10 them, with the marks he had made on surround
ing objects to find The spot, and the hoe with
which he had buried them. Ii was there seen
those Jewels had disappt AIRED.
A fortnight after thar day they were seized in
Liverpool on the persons of Roumsge and the wife
by Raymond, the officer despatched and instructed