The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-08
ZGIGLBR ACCUSES BALDWIN
FIGHTS MISSOURI WARRANT
 FOR HIS ExTRADITIoN.

Declares to Governor Odeil That the
 Whole Proceeding is AiaticiSus aud
 Inspired by Evelyn B. Baldwin Who
 He Discharged From the Zslser Polar
 ExpedItion-Attorn General Crow
 Angry.
 Albany. Dec. 1.-The requisition of Governor Cookery Of Missouri upon Governor odell for the extradition to Missouri of William zeigler of New York city on the charge of furnishing funds for the bribery of Missouri legis- lators in connection with baking powder legislation, was the subject of a hearing before the governor to-day.
 In his statement MT. Zeigler denied enphatically that he had committed any bribery or that he was fugitive from justice, and declared that the whole proceeding was q malicious act Of oppression inspired chiefly by his personal enemies. These enemies he named as Evelyn B. Baldwin, whom he discharged for failure to carry out faithfully the Zeigler-Baldwin Arctic expedition; Patterson Bain, whose en- nity he says grew out of anti-alum prosecutions in Missouri, and F. A. Udell, with whom he had a controversy through Zeigler's attempt ito secure control of the Prevalent Chemical works in St. Louis. .~5
 At the close os the hearing Governor odell said he would give the Missouri people two weeks in which to submit briefs, and Zeigler's counsel two weeks after that in which to answer them.
 The Missouri authorities were repre- scented by Attorney General Crow and Judge T, B. Harvey of Missouri and Sheriff Smith of Cole county. MT. Ziegler was present with his counsel, John M. Bowers Delaney Nicoll, Ed ward Iauterbach, William J. Under- wood and John D. Lindsay. MT. Bowers first asked upon what dates the Missouri authorities alleged that MT. Ziegler was in Missouri and committing the alleged crime. Upon blank dates in March, 1901," replied Att | torney General Crow. A spicy wran- gle between MT. Bowers and MT. Grow was interrupted by Governor odell, who said that, in his opinion, "the pa pers in this case are not regular in that 1 they do not allege the date when the defendant was in the state of Missouri committing this crime. I think that if the defendant was not in the state of Missouri at the time of the committing of this crime, then it is my duty to de- l fend him. A very bad precedent might be established by permitting a citizen to be taken from this state on an il- sufficient basis of fact" .-.
 1 Mir Bowers read the affidavit of Dis 1 trict Attorney Brown of Cole county, Mo-. asserting that MT. Ziegler was in that county on date not named in March, 1901. we propose to show" said MT. Bowers, ''that Mr. Ziegler never was in that county in his life, and ! the swearing out of this warrant was an atrocious crime to use the sovereign 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 repelled in- dignantly what he called an insult to sovereign state, it's chief executive, and it's prosecuting officers. q do not know the gentleman who makes this charge he said, but I deem it my duty to my state and to myself to de- 1 clare his statement as false as he'll"