Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-25
THEY WILL ACT.
Clearfeld County Authorities
to Investigate
THATH1 GARIANMURDER.
More Correspondence in the Notable
International Case.
EREISAPITTSBURG PRECEDENT
Involving Something ola Romance Up on
Mt. Washington.
THATHu ,.GARIAN MURDER.
THERE is PITTSBURG PRECEDENT
IMPORTANT RESULTS ARE LOOKED FOR

Yesterday morning Consul Max Scham
berg received the letter which was sent him
by the District Attorney of Clearfeld coun-
ty. 1t acknowledges the receipt of the corre-
spondence from the Austrian authorities,
translations of which were published ex-
clusively in THE DISPATCH yesterday. The
District Attorney stated in reply to Mr..
Schamberg's request that he would take the
testimony of the witnesses named by the
Royal Court of Hungary if that Government
would bear all the expenses.
For Consul Schamberg's information the
District Attorney states that John and
Mike Ivan and George Murin were arrested
for the murder of Joseph Loksa. Mike
Ivan was tried for the killing and acquIt-
ted, while John Ivan and George Murin
were discharged.
POSSIBLY THE GUILTY PARTIES.
There was not sufficient evidence to hold
them. The District Attorney adds that he
should not be surprised if the two men now
in prison in Austria, Andrew Ivan and
Stephen Toma, are the guilty parties.
Mr. Scamberg at once wrote a reply to the
Clearfeld county attorney, telling him to
go ahead and his country would pay all ex-
penses incurred in taking the testimony.
The Consul then mailed the District Attor-
news letter to the Austrian Legation at
Washington City. Mr.. Schamberg realizes
that if the murderers of Joseph Loksa have
been captured in Hungary, they must not be
allowed to escape, though the question of
mouey should arise. He hopes that the
American people will appreciate the
promptness with which the Hungarian Gov
ernment calls its citizens to strict account
for misdeeds even in foreign land. 1t is
so usual to charge Hungarians with out
laws deeds in the coke regions, or heinous
depredationsl at Johnstown, that Mr..
Schamberg thinks it no more than just for
Americans to aid in the present case. 1t
vindicates Hungarian law.
THERE is A PRECEDENT.
This proceeding of trying a criminal in
one country for crime committed in an
other, strange as it may seem, is not without
a precedent. A few years ago young Aus
trian, after discovering many private points
in connection with certain family on
Mount Washington, in this city, waited
upon the head of the family and declared
himself as his nephew from abroad. As he
was a good-looking, well-dressed young fell
lowthe old man congratulated himself upon
the possession of SO stylish a relative and
accepted him without investigation-a pro-
ceeding which he had good cause 10 regret
afterward. The young man soon became
one of the family, and made himself so
agreeable to the lady of the house that one
morning they departed together, taking
with them 81 800 of the old mans good, hard
cash. They were traced to Austria, where
they were arrested, a charge of robbery
brought against them, and on the evidence
taken in Pittsburg and forwarded TO the au-
thorities there, they were convicted.
AN EXAMPLE FOR FLEMoN.
The young man received sentence of three
years in prison; the woman being an Ameri-
can citizen and not .Gmenable under the cir
cumstances, was placed upon a steamer and
returned to America. The greater portion
OF the money was recovered and returned to
the owners
The plea given by the Austrian Govern
ment in explanation of their attitude on the
extradition system is that the prisoners will
receive more dispassionate trial in that
country than would be possible in America;
that here the popular feeling would be liable
to initiate to the prisoners disadvantage
This latter view of the matter gives weight
to the request of the Pittsburg colored peo-
pie in the Flemon extradition case, and the
desire OF many PIttsburg people that the
prisoner should not be delivered to the
South Carolina authorities, but that the
trial should take place in Allegheny county.
They think he can get fairer trial here.