Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-21
ALLEGED DIAMOND
THIEF EXTRADITED
Fights in Michigan Courts to Pre-
vent Return Here for
Trial
TRIES TO ESCAPE ON THE WAY
Former Woman Companion Be-
trays Offender to Police.
Denies Charge
TRIES TO ESCAPE ON THE WAY

After a legal fight in the courts of
| Michigan to prevent his extradition,
Allan A. Fisher, accused of stealing
| d diamond pin and charged with grand
| larceny, who fed from Los Angeles
several months ago and who was cap
| tured in Detroit Il few weeks ago, was
returned here yesterday morning in
the custody of Detective Thomas Zieg-
! Ter.
on arrival of Ziegler, almost three
| weeks ago, in Detroit, Fisher began
his fight against extradition by en-
deavoring to persuade the governor
of Michigan not to issue requisition
papers. Failing through this means,
he sought freedom from answering the
charge by instituting habeas corpus
proceedings. This proved unsuccessful
and he was given into the custody of
| Ziegler.
In order that he might avoid deputy
| sheriffs and constables who he thought
might attempt to take the prisoner
away from him en- route, Ziegler barr1-
caded his prisoner and himself in a
private compartment of a baggage car
of the train on which they rode, re-
naming there until out of the state
before they repaired to their quarters
in the rear end of the train.
1t was while they were in the bag
gage car that Fisher made an attempt
| to escape, but he was soon overpoW-
cred by the officer and leg irons placed
on him. From that time on until his
arrival here yesterday morning the
prisoner gave no further trouble.
| Fishers arrest in Detroit was due to
| the alertness of his former compan-
ion, known as Mrs. Minnie Murphy
Fisher, with whom he resided while
here She discovered him on the streets
of Detroit one day and notified the po-
lice of that city that he had deserted
her on the Pacific coast.
The specific charge on which Fisher
will be tried is the alleged larceny of
diamond ring value ID al $3.50 from J.
P. Flaherty, 1924 Georgia street. He
left Los Angeles on June 3. On that
day he visited the room of Flaherty
and made an attempt to borrow $25.
Flaherty refused and while he was
absent from his room Fisher is al
legged to have picked up the ring
and put it in his pocket. He is also
said to have defrauded A. Lippert, a
local diamond merchant, of three dia-
mond rings valued at $400. Fisher made
| a business of securing diamonds from
clerks and selling them about town
on a commission basis. At the time
of his disappearance he is said to
have had stones valued at nearly
$500 in his possession.
Fisher, when seen at the city jail
yesterday, explained that the diamond
he is alleged to have stolen from Fla
herty, was not the property of the
latter, but his own. "Flaherty loaned
me $3.50 on the ring" said Fisher. II
told him that as soon as I could I
would pay him back. We even tried
to rattle the ring among the employees
of railroad company in an effort to
realize money on it, but we failed to
sell enough tickets and we called the
rattle off.
There is not bit of truth in the
statement that I stole the ring, for 1t
did not belong to anyone else be-
sides me- AS far as the charges pre-
ferred against me by Lippert, had an
agreement with him whereby I traded
in a diamond ring and $10O cash in
exchange for another. He entrusted
several rings to my custody which I
was trying to sell for him on small
commission. 1 returned them all be-
fore I left the city"
Fisher was arraigned in Police
Judge Frederickson's court yesterday
afternoon and his case continued until
Friday when he will have a date set
for his preliminary hearing.