The Van Buren press., 1903-10-31
Will CHAS. KRATl
Be BROUGHT BACK
Every Point Has Thus Far Been
Decided Against the St.
Louis Fugitive.
HIGHER MEXICAN AUTHORITIES
WILL Determine HIS FUTURE.
Meanwhile He Is Enjoying Every
Facility to Defend. Himself, Being
onlS >ominsiiy Prisoner, with
Friends. Counsel and a Drag" At
work for Him.

st. Louis, Oct ga Post Dispatch
special from Guadalajara. Mexico. says:
Charles Kratz. with every point that
has so far come up decided against
h m, Is continuing his fight against ex.
tradition.
He Is conducting his own case to q
large extent. and with almost as much
freedom and as many convenlences al
though he were not a prisoner.
The Guadalajara Jail is the KraE
headquarters To his ofiicea small
apartment adjoining the inspectors Of
fee, which is his lodging place-come
his attorney. Senior Fernando Castanos;
his bosom friend and former fellow
councilman, Charles Carroll John
Schnaider, formerly St Louis brew
er. his business agents and mine man
ayers messenger boys and mail car
riers. and all the men who dffer or
seek friendship, or who find other ex-
cuses to consult him
This small room is his Office He
other conyeniences He sees whom he
will gets what he wants and does
what he chooses, except that he may
not leave the prison premises.
But Kratz has SO far lost every
point which has come up In the extra
dition case AS was telegraphed yes
| terday, the officials here have been ad-
vised by the federal government that
the St Louis fugitive Is not Mexican
| citizen In the oyes Of the Mexican law,
and may be held 80 days TO await the
arrival OF extrad.ton papers from
! Washington
This was a keen disappointment to
Kratz. He had made all his prepara-
tions to plead Mexican citizenship, and
to urge the point that. as Mexican
citizen, he could not legally be held Tor
a longer period than three days
at is expected that Senior Fernando
Duret, legal adviser Of the department
Of foreign relations, will soon announce
a decision In regard to some OF the le-
gal points In kratz' case Senior Duret
has lust returned TO the CITY or Mex
leo from Caracas. where he represented
the claims OF Mexican citizenship In the
Venezuelan arbitration cases, and ADJ
vices received Eere are to the effect
that he has taken up the kratz case,
1T was not know positively that. he
has reached any decision, but word
was received here this morning that ne
made the significant statement, soon
after he had received the papers In the
case, that II the evidence against
Kraft was sufficient to cause his IN
dIctment In St. Louis, the supposllon
would be that II WAS strong enough W
warrant action against him here.
"1f Il should develop that Senor Du-
rot Is correctly quoted In this matter,
and that. as indicated, the Mexican fed
eral government will weigh the 81
Louis Indictment In the balacc against
Kratg I'm considering tho question oi
his extradition, II Is admitted tha'
kratz' case Is considerably Weakened
'Kratz. however, Is depending large
ly upon his personal pull, which he
has been dilgent IN establishing dur
ing his residence In GudaIajara, for as
sistancc,
"Kratz and his friends have bee'
diligently pleading persecution for po'
ltical purposes" ever since his arrest
and, In fact, they had been introducing
TINT argument whenever the krau
case came up for discussion previously
They have convinced many persons
here thct the efforts to get Kraft bact
TO 81 Louis are parts Of a huge polit
,cnl game and nothing else