The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-06-24
THR CARL YoGr RoMANcE.
The Murder of the ChevaIier du Bois
de Bianca-A Treaty Between Two
Powers Made Solely for the Capture of
Fugitive Gardener-Four Years.
Dealings with Lawyers.


de Bianca-A Treaty Between Tw
Powers Made Solely for the Capture o
Fugitive Gardener-Four Years
| Dealings with Lawyers.
Prom the New York Sun, June 3.
Carl vogt, whose real name he nov
admits to be Joseph Supp, sailed for Eu
rope in the Switzerland yesterday. Thi
ends the American chapter of the mos
extraordinary extradition case on record
On the ID of October, 1871. Vogt ID,
which name he is best known) quit Brus
sells for England. The right before hi
departure the chateau of the Chevalier du
Bois de Blanca, Belgian nobleman o
great wealth, was burned and sacked, anC
the finding of the charre6 remains of the
Chevalier in the blackened ruins of the
chateau threw all Brussels into fever o.
excitement. Suspicion at once pointed
TO Vogt as the probable perpetrator of the
triple crime of robbery, arson, and mur.
der, on account of his quitting the cOun-
try, and the discovery of the fact that the
offense by inducing him, while he was EN-.
ployed as gardener, to marry discarded
mistress, and by subsequently renewing
bis intimacy with the woman. Vogt was
traced to London, and there il was learned
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native town in Prussia. and sailed with
her for the United States. In December
of the same year ex-Detective Philip Far
ley arrested him in the Continental
Hotel in Philadelphia, where he was
lavishly spending the proceeds of
stocks, bonds, and securities, known to
have been the property of his former en-
ployer. Vogt was brought to New \ ork
without warrant, and TO prevent his re-
lease upon writ of habeas corpus a Cen
eral Sessions Grand Jury was induced to
indict him for bringing into this State
property stolen elsewhere. The trial of
this indictment was conveniently delayed
pending an application to Gov. Hoffman
to extradite him, under the provisions of a
statute of 1922, which was evidently in
tended to confer upon the Governor pow-
er to surrender criminals to foreign States,
upon demand, as a matter of comfy. The
necessity for this STYLE of eXtradition grew
out of the fact that there was then no ex-
treaty between the United States
and Belgium.
While this business was in progress, the
who accompanied VOgt retained
lawyers for him, and turned over to them
a large lot of securities, said to have been
worth Sl00.000 or more, by way of guar
their fees. These lawyers, how
ever, rendered their client no important
service. Gov. Hoffman decided to deliver
the prisoner to the Belgian authorities,
and Vogt's half frantic female companion,
deprived by this time of means to employ
other counsel, applied to Mr.. VIM. F.
Knitting for assistance. He sued out
writ of habeas corpus from the Superior
Court, which was served at the door of
he Tombs just in time to prevent the
transfer of the prisoner thence to a Euro
Dean steamer on the point of sailing.
Judge Curtis decided the law upon which
Gov. Hoffman acted TO be in conflict
with the Constitution of the United
States, and therefore imperative, and Or
Tered VOgt's discharge from custody.
This decision was affirmed by the Court
If Appeals, but the liberation which it
inally worked did not avail the prisoner
or even half an hour. He was reincar-
,erated upon bench warrant based upon
he General Sessions Indictment, and de-
ainers of civil orders of arrest were piled
I'D on him freely, although it was well un-
lerstood neither the indictment nor the
,ivil suits would ever be brought to trial.
The object was to gain time for further
fort in the extradition line. This was
made by inducing the Prussian Govern
nent to demand the surrender of Vogt on
he ground that he was Prussian subject,
md under law of that kingdom was
to trial in Prussia for any crime
any where on the habitable
ylobe. The local courts did not negative
his extraordinary claim of Jurisdiction,
,ut the Acknowledgement and Secretary of
State at Washington held that such a
lain on the part of a foreign Government
,ould not be recognized. Itwas necessary
or the pursuers of Vogt to resort again
o the device of OBTAINING him by means
If civil orders of arrest.
Meanwhile, treaty between the Belgian
Government and the United States was
negotiated and ratified. 1t contains re-
roactive clause, obviously framed especi-
lily to fit the case of Vogt. Under it new
were instituted. They
ragged along for months and have ended
With the embarkation of yesterday. VOgt
lad been in the Tombs and Ludlow Street
all four years and half. When first ar
ested he was a fine-looking, robust young
nan. He goes away gray and wrinkled,
With a fair prospect of ending his days in
Prison, because the Belgian penalty for his
.rime, if he is guilty, is Imprisonment for
ife. His mistress, with babe now two
years old, is lie t destitute, and has subsist-
d for long time mainly upon the chari-
v of her cOHntrymen. The stocks and
Sonds are left for the lawyers to quarrel
,ver.
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