Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-04-02
Assembly Acts in Special
Session on Cabinet Call.
Fugitive Is Formally Ar
rested in IStanbuI.
GREEK LEGAL TALENT
EN- ROUTE FROM ATHENS
Appeal From Decision of Penal
Court Is Filed-Seizure Comes
After Former Oil Cars Con.
ference With Turkish Lawyer
on Further Steps.
BULLETIN.

BY the Associated Press.
Turkey today notified the United
States that Samuel insult would
be extradited to Chicago to stand
trial.
Robert P. Skinner, American
Ambassador at Ankara notified the
State Department the Turkish
government had informed him that
Insults eXtradition had been
granted.
The Turkish government at the
same time informed Skinner insult
was now at the Ambassadors dis
position.
BY the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, April 1.-THE Turkish
National Assembly today ratified an
extradition treaty with the United
States, thus clearing the way for the
return of Samuel insult to Chicago.
Called into special session by the
cabinet, the Assembly acted swiftly
at Ankara.
The treaty was signed in 1923 and
ratified by the United States, but until
the problem of Samuel insult was
placed on her doorstep Turkey had
not chosen to bring 1t into force.
insult, fugitive for a year and half
from Cook County, Ill, indictments
charging him with ENLIGHTENMENT and
grand larceny, was arrested by Turk
ish police today.
They took him from the Hotel Lon
don. despite his protestations, to the
house of detention.
Kenan Bey, attorney general, stated
that If an examination showed the
74-year-old former utilities car to be
i'll, he would eventually be transferred
to the prison inflrmary to await dis
position of his case.
Lived in Four Places.
A battery of Greek legal talent was
reported en- route from Athens to fight
in his behalf-an apparent last-ditch
effort to save insult from trial in
Chicago on the charges which arose
from the overthrow of his one-time
empire of Middle western Utilities.
With his removal to the house Of
detention. insult had lived in four
different places in Istanbul since he
arrived here last week.
1lTSI lldCe VI 1cSl0eIlCc Was lllC
Greek tramp freighter, the S. S.
Maiotis, which bore him here from
Athens; he was removed from the
Maiotis forcibly yesterday and placed
In the Hotel Aydan. Then he was
taken to the Hotel London, in the
suburb of Pera.
At the Hotel London he ate lunch
and followed the meal with a short
nap.
Although surrounded by policemen,
he was permitted a nominal liberty
and, awakening from his nap, started
out for a walk
PAGES, for he found himself to be fol-
lowed by squad of spectators. He
went back to the hotel, changed some
American dollars into Turkish money,
picked up some newspapers and set
tied himself down in the hotel lounge
to read.
insult was still in the hotel when
the police, acting on instructions from
the Turkish government, placed him
formally under arrest.
A Turkish lawyer Immediately went
into action for insult, filing an ap-
peal against the decision of the Penal
Court which yesterday ruled that. as
insult had committed neither a mil
ttary nor political crime and was not
a citizen of Turkey, he was eligible
to eXtradition
Judicial authorities said, however.
that the right of appeal was not
operative as the Penal Courts de-
cision was final.
Five detectives surrounded him as
If he were desperate gunman-not
a discouraged and apparently beaten
figure.
The five swarmed around insult this