Evening star., 1924-08-27
FIGHT EXTRAD|T|0N
IN LIQUOR CASES
Attorneys Raise Objections
to Plea in Florida Con-
spiracy Charges.

Showing under with an avalanche OF
objections the Governments demand
that Is defendants be removed from
this jurisdiction to Florida to answer
indictments of conspiracy to defeat
the prohibition laws. a dozen local
attorneys in District Supreme
Court room today launched a vigor-
GUS defensive before United States
Commissioner Needham {. Turnage
and. combining forces. staged a dis
play Of legal pyrotechnics which
came to a climax with the demand
that George Golding, special intel
ligence agent for the Treasury De-
partment. be certified for contempt
of court because he "whispered~
with Assistant United States Attor-
ney John H. Burnett while on the
witness stand.
The minute purported certified
copy of indictments was presented.
an anvil chorus led by Attorneys
James A. OShea and William f..
Leahy began voicing objections on
the ground that the certification was
not valid. The ground was taken that
although the clerk of the Florida
court should have certified the CODY
Of the indictments. ''it was a deputy
clerk, Susan T. Williams" who signed
the papers.
May Consume Three Days.
1t is expected three days will be
taken up in the fight against extra
dition.
Everything possible was objected
to. And then, during one of the
legal battles anent an objection.
somebody noticed Golding talking to
Burnett. while the former was on the
stand awaiting to resume testimony
regarding identification of defend
ants. An uproar followed. Six at
torneys hoped to their feet.
Attorney Leahy demanded the
right to cross-examine the witness
as to what he was talking about.
Following the statement by Golding
that it was regarding one of the de-
PENDANTS, O'Shea hoped up and ex-
claimed:
Il demand that this man, because
he has so transgressed rules govern
ing witnesses, be certified to the Dis
trict Supreme Court for contempt of
court"
This was denied by Commissions r
Turnage. and the hearing proceeded.
The defendants who are sought in
Florida for indictments charging
wholesale conspiracies to defeat the
prohibition act, are as follows:
Lieut.. Joshua H. Sprinkle and
Private William Haller of the local
police department. o. c. Fredericks. a
Pullman conductor; Claude McNeill. a
Pullman porter; Wallace Barksdale,
a Pullman chef; Patrick II. Harteman
John B. Newman and Charles Mar
shall. formerly deputy marshals
James Boudwin, ST.: James Boudwin,
Jr.; James Hunter. Bromley Hunter.
Emil krause, Ralph McCullough and
Walter A. Tapscott
representing the defendants are:
j. Bertrand Emerson, for Fredericks:
H. e. Davis. for Mccullough; w. E.
Leahy, Lucien Van Doren and Martin
Mcnamara, for Charles Marshall,
sprlnsle. Haller, Newman and Barte-
man; w. P. Wendell, for Barksdale
| and McNeill; Attorney Horsan. for
Tapscott; A. L. Neumeyer and Milton
King, for the Boudwins, and ATTORNEY
O'Shea, for the two Hunters and Emil
krause
The hearing, which was held to
consider the return of the Is Wash
ingtonians to Florida, got under way
when Assistant United States Attor-
ney Burnett presented what he said
were certified copies of the indict-
mentS
The attorneys for the defendants
| thought they were not properly GER
titled. and brought in objections
Objections Block ProRreSs,
Following overruling OF a multi
tude of objections and the noting of
| numerous exceptions, Goiding took
the stand to attempt identification
| of some OF the defendants More OBJ
jections were piled up. More excep-
tions were noted as the identification
process slowly threaded its way into
the record. Among the principal OBJ
jections was the fact that all OF the
defendants are noted as being late
Of Florida" and attorneys are laying
the groundwork for objections to
taking the men out Of this jur1sdic-
tion on the ground that this point
does not hold good in the majority
of cases. Many defendants, they say,
have never even been in Florida.
The hearing adjourned for lunch
at o'clock.