The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-07-02
The Carl VOgt Romance.

Carl Vogt, whose real name he now
admits to be Joseph Supp, sailed from
Europe in the Switzerland. This ends
! the American chapter of the most ex-
traordinary extradition case on record.
| On the I'd of October, 1871, VOgt (by
which name he is best known quit
Brussels for England. The night be-
| fore his departure the chateau of the
Chevalier du Bois de Bianco a Belgian
nobleman of great wealth, was burned
and sacked, and the finding of the
charred remains of the Chevalier in the
| blackened ruins of the chateau thre|
all Brussels into fever of excitement.
! Suspicion at once pointed to Vogt as
the probable perpetrator of the triple
crime of robbery, arson, and murder,
on account of his quitting the country,
and the discovery of the fact that the
| burned nobleman had given him mortal
| offense by inducing him, while he was
employed as a gardener, to marry a
| discarded mistress, and by subsequent
| " renewing his intimacy with the wO-
man. VOgt was traced to London, and
| there it was learned that he met q
Young woman from his native town in
| Prussia, and sailed with her for the
| United States. In December of The
same year, xe-Detective Philip Farley
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 employer. Vogt
was brought to New York without war
rant, and to prevent his release upon a
writ of habeas corpus a general sessions
grand Jury was induced to indict him
| for bringing into this state property
stolen elsewhere. The trial of this in
dictment was conveniently delayed
pending an application to Gov. Hoffman
to extradite him, under the provisions
of statute oil 1929, which was evident
ly intended to confer upon the governor
power to surrender criminals to foreign
states, upon demand, as a matter of
comfy. The necessity of this style of
extradition grew out of the fact that
there was then no extraditiOn treaty
between the United States and Bel
GUM.
When this business was in progress,
the woman who accompanied VOgt re-
tanned lawyers for him, and turned over
to them a large lot Of securities, said to
have been worth 100000 or more, by
way of guaranteeing their fees. These
lawyers, however, 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. Kintz-
ing for the assistance. He sued out a
writ of habeas corpus from the supreme
court, which was served at the door of
the Tombs just in time to prevent the
transfer of the prisoner thence to a
European steamer on the point of sail
ing. Judge Curtis decided the law
upon which Gov. Hoffman acted to he
in conflict with the constitution of the
United States, and there imperative,
and ordered Vogts discharge from Gus
tody. This decision was affirmed by
the court of appeals, but the liberation
which it finally worked did not avail the
prisoner for even half an hour. He was
reincarcerated upon a bench warrant
based upon the general sessions indict-
ment, and detainers of civil orders of
arrest were piled up on him freely, al
though it was well understood that
neither the indictment nor the civil suits
would ever be brought to trial. The
object was to gain time for a further
| effort in the extradition line. This was
made bv inducing the Prussian govern
ment to demand the surrender of NOgt
! on the ground that he was a Prussian
| subject, and under a law of that king
dom was amenable to trial in Prussia
| for any crime committed on the habita-
| bic globe. The local courts did not
negative this extraordinary claim of
| jurisdiction, but the attorney general
! and secretary of state at Washington
| held that such a claim on the part of a
! foreign government could not be recOg-
| niZed. It was necessary for the pursu-
! ers of Vogt to resort again to the device
of OBTAINING him by means of civil Or
! ders of arrest.
| Meanwhile, a treaty between the Bel
/ gian government and the United States
was negotiated and ratified. It contains
| a retroactive clause, obviously framed
especially to fit the case of VOgt. Un-
! der it new proceedings were instituted.
They dragged along for months and
have ended with the embarkation OF
Yesterday. Vogt had been in the Tombs
| and Ludlow-street jail fOur years and a
! half. When first arrested he was a
fine looking, robust young mar. He
goes away gray and wrinkled, with a
| fair prospect of ending his days in
prison, because the Belgian penalty for
| his crime, if he is guilty, is imprison-
ment for life. His mistress, with babe
now two years old, is left destitute, and
has subsisted for long time mainly
upon the charity of her countrymeD.
The stocks and bonds are left for the
lawyers to quarrel over.-Nea0 York
! Sam