Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-08
EXTRACTION PROCEEDINGS
For VIM. ZieeIer Wanted in Missouri
Start in Warmly.

| Albany, N. y, Dee. 1.-Before Gov
| ernor Odell, today, a hearing was hei
| on the requisition Of Governor Dockery
IF Missouri, for the extradition to that
| state of William Ziegler Of New YORK
City. The hearing is the result of an
Indictment in Cole county, Mo, on the
'harge of furnishing funds for the
bribery of Missouri legislators in con-
nection with baking powder legislation.
rhe Missouri authorities were repro
iented by Attorney General Crow and
Judge T. E. Harvey of Missouri, and
Sheriff Smith Of Cole county. MI.
Iiegler was present in person and his
counsel, John M. Bowers, Delaney
Nicoll, Edward Lauterbach, William J.
Underwood and John H. Lindsay.
a wrargle between Attorney General
Grow and Mr.. Bowers followed the lat
ter's demands TO know the dates the
Missouri authorities allege Mr.. Ziegler
was in that state. was interrupted by
Gov. Odell, who said:
1t seems to me, now, that the papers
in this case are not regular in that
they do not allege the date when the
defendant was in the State of Missouri.
at the time of the committing Of this
crime, then it is my duty to defend
him. A very bad precedent might be
es'ta blished by permitting a citizen to
be taken from this state on an insuf-
ficient basis of facts
Mr.. Crow said that the dates con-
cerned covered a considerable period
of time Tin early January, about the
18th of March, and from the first to the
third OF April 1901, covering substan-
TALLY the entire period of the session
of our General Assembly in that year.
MIR. Bowers turned upon Judge Harvey
and demanded to know whom he repre-
sented
Il appear here to assist General Grow
with his consent" said Judge Harvey. Il
am also in the interests of the citizens
Of the state of Missouri whose busin. So
has been practically destroyed by the leg
iSlatlon whose repeal this bribery pre-
vented"
MIR. Bowers read the affidavit of District
Attorney Brown Of Cole county. asserting
that Mr.. Zieger was in that county on a
blank date in March, 1901
We propose to show" said Mr. Bowers
that MI Zie2ler never was in that coIn-
ty in his life and the swearing out of this
warrant was an attempt to use the SOW
er@ien 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 replied inGig-
nantly to what he called an insult to a
sovereign state, its chief executive and its
prosecuting officers.
Il 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 h
Are YOU ready to try out the date of
the nineteenth Of March?' retorted Mr.
Bowers.
In his statement, Mr. Zeigler denied en-
phaticaliy that he had committed any
bribery or that he was fugitive from
justice. and declared that the whole pro-
ceeding was a malicious act of oppres-
sion inspired chiefly BY his personal enc
mics. These enemies he named as Evelyn
B. Baldwin, whom he says he discharged
for failure to carry out faithfully the
Zeiglor Baldwin Arctic expedition; Pat
terson Balm. whose enmitY. he says. grew
out Of anti-alum prosecutions in Missou-
ii. and F. A. ITrell. with whom he had a
controversy through Ziegler's attempt to
secure control of the Provincial Chemical
Works in St. Louis.
At the close of the hearing GOV. Odall
said he would give the Missouri people
two weeks in which to submit briefs and
ZieSlers counsel two weeks after that iii
which to answer them.