Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-02

diately %afterward Judge Caron al1wsi
the prisoners to leave the jail and go
few days later the prisoners declares
in court, through their lawyers, tha<
Mr.. Erwin, the lawyer representing the
United States, had offered to consent
to a dismissal of the cast on the pay
ment of 100000. Mr.. Erwin denied
the charge. Greene admitted that he
offered to pay 100000 in settlement.
On ADJUST Is, 1902, Judge Caron dis
charged Greene and Gaynor and dis
missed the extradition proceedings.
After this Mr.. Erwin reported the
facts to the United States government
and charged that Gaynor and Greene
had so interested officials connected
with the administration of justice in
Canada that the ends of justice had
been defeated. The United States ap-
pealed the cas- to the privy council
whose decision, just rendered, sends
the matter back before Commissioner
L~afontaine, at Montreal. Gaynor and
Greene declare they will go through
the fight all over again on new tech
meal grounds, but it is predicted by
unbiased men qualified to speak that
they will be brought to trial within the
next three months.
Meantime Judge Caron has been per-
mitted to retire from the bench on a
life pension equivalent to his full sal
airy.
Gaynor and Greene refuse to be in
terviewed in Quebec. They refer
everybody to their lawyer, who makes
no secret of the fact that he proposes
to fight at every point and to the bit
ter end. But when Gaynor grows mel
low in the barroom of the Chateau
Frontenac hotel, where he spends most
of his waking hours, he poses as the
victim of a sinister persecution n
claims that the United States is still
fairly indebted to him to the amount
of $500, 600 on his contracts. Greene
is a sober man and does little talking
Comments on Case.
Friends of the exiles in Quebec. in
Canada, are attempting to create the
impression that the decision OF the Brit
ish court sis only another evidence OF
the cringing and trucking policy which
England has of late been following in
her dealings with the United States.
Canadian interests being sacrificed III
every instance to the inordinate and ag-
gressive demands of the United States.
That this feeling is not general is
shown by the strong words OF a leading
Canadian lawyer upon receipt OF the
news of the courts decision. "Of all the
infamies that have disgraced the annals
of the administration of justice in Can
ada" he said. this Gaynor and Greene
case is the worst. 1t has shown us hat
our bench and bar are unhappily amen
able to influences which were never sus-
pected before and that, aided by the
fortuitous presence of cooperative ele-
ments in the federal and provisional
governments, the good name of our
country and of two of its supposed I'M
assailable bulwarks have been most
ruthlessly sacrificed for the sake of tenn
porary political and personal triumphs
and the sake of personal gain. Happily
we have in the judicial committee OF the
imperial privy council an Independent
and impartial tribunal that possesses
the right and the power to set all such
matters straight, to rectify all the
wrongs perpetrated in the name of Brit
ish or Canadian law, and. in this in
stance. to wipe out the stigma that has
been cast upon our system by some o.
our very worst elements. The entire
machinery of the Canadian administra
ton of justice was paralyzed or prosti
tuted to the service of Gaynor anc
Greene, who had to pay sweetly for theil
temporary triumphs. How far the pc.
litical and legal cliques have bled them
it is impossible to say, but it is fair tc
assume, from all the widespread rami
fcations, that it must have represented
a considerable amount of solid cash
Everything that could help the great
end in view was used"
Although the wheels of justice have
ground slowly and it has taken five
years of desperate and costly fighting
to arrive at the present stage of the pro-
ceedings, the day of their trial is now
almost in sight. Should they be fount
guilty and receive their just deserts, il
will be time and money well spent, fol
it will teach a lesson to absconders anC
criminals that they can find no refuge
in the technicalities of the e%Xtradition
laws.