The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-11-25
HlAYAW|llC GET
HEARING BEFORE
HE'SEXTRAD|TED
On This understanding His
Counsel Agrees Ex-Dictator
Will Surrender.

Jose Santos zeIaya, exDictator Of
Nicaragua. whom Secret Service agents
re seeking At the direction Of the State
Department, " wanted in his own coun-
try for the murder Of two OF his coun-
stryms In 1901. The mystery surround
Sng the search for the former Nicara-
suan President was cleared this after
noon when the NicaraSuan Legation In
Washington made request on Solicitor
Fox Of the state Department that
zs,ayA be detained pending the arrival
Of sxtradition papers now on their way.
Cory n. staddsn, who was in wash
iaston for the NicaraGuun government
- the zeiaya regime, had a conference
with State Department oh,cials to-day
and received assurances mat Zelaya
was prepared to offer an ample defense
and would surrender himself whenever
to State Department was prepared to
hs,d has hearing.
Meantime however. Secret Service
men have heen unable to find Zelaya
and to-day expressed the fear that he
he'd slipped over the line into Canada.
According 10 his son. G. Aiphonss re.
Aya, his father In In hiding and there
I sesason to believe that his place OF
ssaosa,msnt 10 In this city. The younger
a,Aa says his fathers troubles are
Dursly political and OF . nature which
can Be- settled to the former dictator's
advantage In . few days.
u was supposed at nrst that Zelaya
was wanted for the murder in 1909 of
Lee Roy Cannon and Leonard Groce.
Americans. but they do not figure In
the present charge.
The willy NLcaraguan. with his son
and J. Macias. HE former oonsh-gen-
srai IN England. slippsd into this coun-
~ On he Oceanic on Nov. 6. stopping
hrst ct the Hotel Victoria. then at the
waldorf. and more recently At the Ho-
81 HArgrave. Columbus avenue and
osvsnty-sscond street.
ssaor Nicolas and the younger Zelaya
are stiil at the Harsravs. but the former
dictator has not been seen there. &C..
cording to the clerks. since last Satur-
DAY.
Il WAS not thought that Zslaya had
bsen warned about the steps to sx.
ssa1its him to Nicaragua. 20 the Secret
0ervkA men who went to arrest him
we're surprised to find their man had
flown. Nicolas protests he knows moth
ing Of his former chiefs present where
Abovts.
Ualted States Conmissloner Shields
waited at the Federal Building all day.
expecting any minute to have Zslaya
brought before him. He 70 stu waiting
to-day.
Since his arrival In New York Zelaya
hAs been visited by Luis +. Corea. his
former Minister to the United States,
now . practising lawyer In this city.
and by DR.. julius Irias. his former
Minister General He has many other
personal friends In New York.
NICARAGUA DEMANDS zELAYA
.---.. A. A oLAvER.
I TIE request for the sxtradition Of
4eayA was made by the Nicaragua
Assembly through Secretary o: State
Bryan. A second charge against the
fOrmsr dictator - said to involve the
theft Of Sii.50.
when Zelaya was permitted 70 enter
ne country there was surprise he was
ut dsported ~ an undesirable. 1t now
.Aooears that the Administration was
kAsa busy Win the Nlcaraguan Gov
tmsnt and wanted Zslaya whore he
ssts,d ~ caught a. soon a. the warrant
ssAohsd Washington. In fact Zelaya, In
eonsdng to New YORK.. fell into . trap.
There are those. however. who be-
Iisvs that should zelaya BE- taken back
y Nicaragua II will have . demoraliz-
Ing influence. not only In Nicara qua,
which has not recovered from his rule,
but through Central America. In Me-
araSua. whore he still has many fol-
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