Evening journal., 1893-01-21
HERBS EXTRADITION.
Authorities Determined to Get
Hold of the Doctor.
PARTIES FURIOUS AGAINST HIM.

For That Share he is Alleged to Have
Taken in Betraying Them to Andrieux,
and Assisting in the scandalous Expos
ures.
PARIS, Jan. 21.-The authorities appear
determined to show by their energy in
obtaining evidence against DR.. Cornelius
Herr that they are in earnest in their
efforts to procure his extradition They
realize that they labor under a consider.
able disadvantage in dealing with DR..
Herr at the distance of London. If they
had him here he could be subjected to
the usual French process Of examination
which includes browbeating, confronting.
entrapping, and everything in IL e way
of inquisition short of actual physical
torture, and sometimes approaches that
very closely in the persistent subjection
of the accused to long and exhausting
sittings with view of compelling ad-
mission through shear WEAKNESS and de
sire for rest
As Herr cannot be subjected, in advance
of extradition, to this sort Of racking
the authorities are doing the next best
thing for their purposes by putting his
friends through the process. NJ. Gle
menceau was confronted yesterday with
M. Stephane with the view of eliciting il
possible some acknowledgements that
might be sent to London to strengthen
the case against Herr The examination
was private. but according TO the Petit
Journal listeners on the outside heard
1frh 10
lively vocal encounter was in progress
within. Clemenceau stoutly maintained
his denials of any knowledge of corrupt
or criminal conduct on the part of Herr
or anybody else and used language that
in any other place would have been
promptly followed by a challenge or a
duel. Clemenceau stood his ground
under all the pressure and the examina
tion closed without any admission of
wrong on his part and, it is understood,
without any additional damage to Herr.
Enraged Against DR.. Herr. ~
All parties are furious against Herz.
The 'Panamaites, as they are cs1led, are
enraged against him for the share he is
alleged to have taken in betraying them
TO Andrieux and assisting the ex prefect
in the exposures which have caused so
not implicateoin the scandal would like
to see the chef responsibility for the
disgrace laid upon a foreigner and a
German at that. One of the charges
most generally uttered against Herr is
that he is a Bavarian and consequently
a compa triOt of he'soldier brigands who
fired Baz eilles in September, 1870. II
happens that Dr. Herr was born al
Besancon, France, and is not the son oil
Bavarian, but of Hessian parents H.
is therefore only Of German parentage
This, however, makes no difference tc
his assailants who persist in denouncine
him as a German aud spare no effort to
prove that he was the chief hand in the
Panama affair
Foreigners Brought About the Scandal
One of the newspapers goes so far ai
to declare that foreigners are chiefly r.
sponsible for the Panama scandal
Paris, 1t says, "has become the grea'
cosmopolis. II is well to enconrag,
wealthy society foreigners to come to liv,
here. They hire rooms and fats at tn,
highest rents in the neighborhOod of tn,
Champs Elyzes, spend money on object,
of taste and luxury, do not troubl,
themselves about decorations or politics
in connection with bribery ami are reall,
happy if they can succeed in climbing OF
coach to sit beside dukes anC
duchesses. But foreigners wanting t,
get on should not only be given a wild,
berth, but pushed from the door of th,
too-confding and ever-hospitable France
The authorities appreciate, however
that denouncing Herr as a German will
have no influence in British court Of
justice, and that they win have to max
out clearly a probable case of guilt il
order to obtain his extradition. Herr,
apologists of whom there are some ex
press admiration for his shrewdness il
securing a chance to defend himself il
England and intimate that it might hav
been better for some others OF the &C
cused If they had adopted a similar
course.
In connection with the prosecution 0
M. Herr, attention is called to the evi
dence of NJ. Andrieux before the commit
tee of investigation, in which Andrieu.
stated that Herr had in his possession
the original of an important document
revealing official corruption.
Gas to the document itself" said N
Andrieux, 81 received it from M. Coz
nelius Herr, who holds the original.
have been promised the proof as regard
a few of the names l will give you on
document which will prove my goo
faith; it is a copy which 1 made at a
hotel table, almost in spite of NJ. Co
nelius Herr"
M. Brisson-'Do you say the origini
is in the hands of NJ Cornelius Herzg"
M. Andrieux-"I will endeavor to prl
cure it for you"
Cannot NJ. Cornelius Herr appear /
person.
"The document can be put in; M
Cornelius Herr is i'll"
M. de Villebois Mareail-"Who pl
you on the track of that document2"
M. Andrieux-"It was Cornelius Her
himself who told me he had a conclusi-
document in his possession. That WI
before the death of Baron de Reinac
he then only gave me details success
lively. and without being pressed by m
made the copy hurriedly."
Asked how it was Baron de Reinac
had made NJ. Herr his confdant \
Andrieuz said they had been friends hi
then ouarralad and had ranavad frian