The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-23

The state Department Requests That
Fair Trial He Given Her in Mexico.

The state Department Requests That q
Fair Trial he Given Her In Mexico.
WASHINGTON. July 22Ths State Depart
ment has requested the Government OF Mexico
to use Its good ofices In behalf OF Mrs. Mani"
Rich. . citizen OF the United states, to assure
fair trial for the woman In the Mexican courts
on the charge OF numbering her husband. John
D. Rich. This action Of the department Is PEE
culiar, inaBmuch az Mrs. Rich is to be tried in
Mexico II is said that this action Ia unprece-
dented, and the excuse for n Is that Mrs. Rich
ia a woman and has mahT supporters VINO be-
lieve that she will not secure fair hearing In
the Mexican courts.
The case OF Mrs Rich Is not only interesting
because she is woman but on account OF tho
fact that she Is the first American citizen ever
surrendered by the United States for trial in
foreign country. Her txtraditIon from this
country to Mexico was secured under treaty
which recently went into effect. This treaty
contained clause that citizens OF one country
who had committed crime In the other and
then returned to the land OF their allegiance
should be extradited for trial In the foreign
country. This provision was inserted In the
treaty at the instance OF the United
States. Considerable difficulty had been eS-
perienced in the past over the frequency with
which Mexican citizens who had committed
offences in the United States along the MeHi-
where they remained secure against punish
ment. as there was no agreement between Mex;
leo and the United Statea by which they could
iine of for Trial strangely Enough the rst case
to arise under this treaty was that OF an Amerl-
can and woman charged with the com mission
Mrs Rich has described herself. as the
champion lady Of tRs Sntfd
q the United Suites, They went to Jpsrez;
met tirst In Chicago; where Mrs kieh wac CIV
last from the effects OF two bullet wounds In
bis abdomen. On the evening OF April 29
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the man dylns Rich In his s-mcrte@ stSts.
mont said that his wife woke him up early in
versatlon he had had the night before with an
other woman about taxing his wife to the Santa
NSsse were nGe ways living like cats and dogs.
Rich eaid, His wife told him she would kill
him with butcher knife unless he made nn
demanded The knife. Then. according to MS
Re6 eross arande to
hs Died four dssS Later
! arrested. at the request Of the Mexican au-
| thorities. on a charge OF murder.
Application was made to the United States
by Mexico for the woman's extraditlon under
| the terms OF the treaty provision that citizens
| OF one country might be extradited for trial in
| the other. A popular outcry against granting
the request arose in Texas. and kilograms ia
behalf OF Mrs. Rich were received by President
Mckinley from Coy. Savers Of that State and
many prominent Texans. After a careful eH-
animation OF all the evidence produced in be-
half OF the woman before the examining mag
ietrate In III Paso; and the evidence against
the request for her extradition, as the testi-
mony clearly pointed to Mrs. Rich as the muir
treaty were such that the President had no a.
formative in the matter. 1t is contendcd Nv
Mrs Rirh's friends that she IL subject 70 Ats Of
insanity and that she Is in delicate condition.
The woman has been taken to Juarez. where
her trial will occur.