The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-08
AFRAID To FACE
MISSOURI COURT
Baking Powder Magnats Fighting
Against Extrsdition.
HEAVY ARRAY OF COUNSEL
ODELL DISPOSED TO LET THE
CASE DRAG.

A LBANY. n. Y. Dec. THE requi-
"A sition Of Governor Dockery OF
Missouri upon Governor Oden for
the extradition to that state Of Will
liam Ziegler Of New York City upon an
Indictment charging bribery in connec-
ton with baking powder legislation
was the subject Of a hearing before
the governor today.
The Missouri authorities were rep
resented by Attorney General Grow
and Judge T. b. Harvey of Missouri
and Sheriff Smith of Cole county. Mr.
Iiesler was present in person. and his
counsel, John NJ. Bowers, Delaney
Nicolls, Edward Lauterbach. William
j. Underwood and John y. Lindsay
Mr. Bowers argued that the papers
III the case were not regular I'm that
they do not allege the date when the
defendant was in the state OF Missouri
committing the alleged crime
Mr.. Crow maintained that if the acts
and contentious of the state of Mis-
souri, were not to be given full faith.
but were TO be disputed, the burden
of proof was upon those attacking
them. A lively tilt between the law
yers on each side followed.
Injured Innocence.
I'VE propose to show" said Mr..
Bowers. that Mr.. Ziegler. never was
IN That county in his life, and the
swearing out Of this warrant was an
atrOCiOus crime against the liberty or
a citizen, an attempt to use the sOver-
eign power Of two states TO bring this
man into the state of Missouri. where
they can try him on any charge they
please"
Attorney General Crow then arose
and repealed Indignantly what he called
executive and its prosecuting officers.
L do not know the gentleman who
makes this charge" he said. but
deem it my duty to my state and to
myself to declare his statement as
false as -."
Are You ready to try out the date
Of the 18th OF March, retOrted Mr..
Bowers.
Judge Harvey recited the history OF
the baking powder legislation in Mis-
souri, at the legislative session of 1901
especially with reference to the at
tempt to repeal the anti-alum law. IL
was in the obtaining of the defeat Of
this appeal law that the bribery is
alleged to have taken place.
A long legal wrangle then took place
as 90 whether IL was necessary for
Missouri TO give exact dates.
Zeigler's Statement.
In his statement Mr.. Ziegler denied
emphatically that he had committed
any bribery or that he was a fugitive
1 from justice, and declared that the
Z whole proceeding was "a malicious act
[ of oppression inspired chiefly by his
I personal enemies. These enemies he
named as Evelyn 3. Baldwin whom
he says he discharged for failure to
carry out faithfully the Ziegler- Bald
win Arctic expedition; Patterson Balm,
/ whose enmity he says grew out of anti
alum prosecutions in Missouri and r
, A. UdeU. with whom he had a con-
{ trOversy through Ziegler's attempt to
1 secure control of the PrOvident chem
zeal works in St Louis. Upon tine
/ question of being a fugitive from JUS
Jice. he declared he had since the dates
4 alleged been three times openly in the
state Of Missouri upon personal busi-
I ness which exact nature he set forth
} in his statement.
/ Mr. Ziegler's statement was very
minute and VOluminOus including af-
hdavits from several persons claiming
! knowledge of the controversies upon
which he based his assertions Of ma
licious intent underlying the prosecu-
ton.
I Judge Harvey announced that under
/ the governors ruling combining them
+ TO March they would center upon the
/ 18th, 20th and DIST
El6nLy OF " 4LA4cGob5.
! Ziegler's counsel then called a Ions
! series of witnesses, including Mr.
/ ZiegIer's private secretary and busi-
/ ness associates. to cover almost every
day i'm March, 1901. all of them tending
1 to show that Ziegler was not out OF
J the state or city of New York on the
days in question.
/ Judge Harvey then produced mum
/ Der of afhdavits constituting the Mis-
souri, end of the case. The principal oil
/ these were by Former Lieutenant Gov
/ ernor Lee Of Missouri. detailing tht
/ alleged bribery of the legislative com
mittee through him at the instance OF
/ Daniel J. Kelly of New York, who Lee
( swore declared himself to be the agen
I of Ziegler in the business.
An affidavit by Baldwin declared
/ that he saw Ziegler or on the traiI
/ ostensibly for Missouri, and that later
| Ziegler told him that he had been L
/ Missouri and that his business there
I was successful
1t was shown that the name of CIV
! ZiegIer' appeared on the register o
/ the Southern hotel on the 18th i'm wha
I is claimed to be Kelly's writing. anC
/ that somebody was at the hotel under
/ that name.
/ At the close Governor Odell said ht
would give the Missouri people two
4 weeks in which to submit briefs, anC
/ Ziegler's counsel two weeks after tina
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