Show AFRAID TO FACE MISSOURI COURT 4 Ba Baking Powder Magnate Extraction HEAVY ARRAY OP OF O P COUNSEL C I ODELL ODEIL TO LIT LET TEB T CASE CAzE DIU DL DLA I A 4 LEANT LB NY N T Y Dec Dee 7 The A I A II smon of or Governor Govern r Dockery Docker of ofA ofa Missouri upon Governor Odell for forthe forthe the extradition to that state of Wil WU William Wilham liam ham Ziegler of New York City upon pon an indictment charging char bribery in connection connection tion Uon with Uk baking powder legislation was the tha subject of et t a hearing before the governor IaN todar The Missouri authorities were rep Tep represented represented resented by b Attorney General Crow Cro and Judge t 1 B Harvey ei of Missouri and aDd Sheriff SIt Smith of Cote Cole county Mr Ziegler Zi r was present in I person and aDd his counsel John 2 Bowers Bo Delancey Edward Lauterbach William WilliamJ W J 7 Underwood and 4 John D Lindsay y Mr Bowers Bewers argued that the papers in III the tile case were not DOt regular in that they do not allege the date when ben the defendant was in the state of Missouri committing the alleged crime Mr 1 Crow maintained that if it the acts and a of the state of Mis Missouri souti were not to be given full faith fath but were to be disputed dISPUte the burden of proof was Wall upon those e attacking them A lively tilt between the law Jaw lawyers lawyers y rs on each side followed Injured Innocence We propose e to show ow said Mr Bowers that Mr Ziegler never was wall in that county in his bIa life Ute and the swearing earing 8 out of et this warrant was an atrocious crime against t the liberty of or ofa ora ofa a citizen an attempt to use the sever sovereign eign power of or two states stat to bring brine this thle man into the state of Missouri where they can try him on Oft any charge they I I please Attorney General Crow ero then arose aro e I and repelled indignantly what hat he called I Ian an insult to a sovereign state its chief executive and its ita prosecuting officers I do not know the gentleman who makes make this charge he be said aid but I deem it my duty to my state and aad a to myself to declare Ida his statement as false a aAre aAre Are you ready to try y out the date I of tile the th of March Marh r retorted Mr Bowers Judge Harvey Harey recited the history of the baking powder legislation in hi Mis Missouri Js I at the legislative It ci laUve session aJon se of 1991 especially e with reference refe e to the at attempt attempt attempt tempt to t repeal the law It t I was wan In ka the obtaining of the defeat of ot this appeal law that the bribery is I alleged all to have taken place A long loa legal wrangle then took place as to whether It was w necessary for Missouri to give exact dates Statement Stait In lab his hi J statement Mr Ziegler ZI denied emphatically that he be had lad commuted d any alt bribery y y or that he be was a fugitive e I teem from Justice cud and declared t the I personal enemies Tese i he e named nanI as Evelyn B Baldwin 1 whom I he M says lie He discharged dl For Dr to carry out Olt faithfully the ZIe Ji toj win wm Arctic expedition Patterson Patt r oa Bain Bela whose enmity he be says grew out of cC anti I alum prosecutions In Missouri and ai F FA i iA i iA A Udell with whole he had a con I through attempt to j I secure control of the Provident diem chem chemI j leal teal works in St Louis Lou Upon the I i question of being a fugitive from Jan Jus Justice Jantice tice t he declared he had since the dates date alleged been three times openly in the state of Missouri upon personal busi bual business I ness n f which exact nature he be set forth in his bi statement Mr statement was Was very I minute and voluminous including af affidavits from hom several Jve 81 persons claiming I knowledge of the controversies upon which he be based ha his hie assertions of ma maliciouS 1 I licious latent Intent underlying the prosecution prosecution tion Judge Harvey Haney announced that under I I the governors r ruling confining them themI I to March they would center upon the thel l th and 1st I Plenty of Witnesses counsel then called a long Ions series ertes of witnesses including Mr private secretary and busi busl business business I ness ne associates to cover almost every everyday everyday everyday day in March 1901 all of them tending to show that tat Ziegler was 88 not out oot of i iI the state or city of New York on the I days day in question I II Judge Ju Harvey then produced a num nuni number I I her ber of affidavits constituting the Mis Missouri I end of the case cue The principal of ot these were by Former Portner Lieutenant Gov by Governor Lee of Missouri detailing detail the alleged aUed bribery of the legislative com corn committee committee through him at st the instance of Darnel Daniel J 1 Kelly of New York who Lee Let Letaw swore aw ft declared himself elf to be the agent of Ziegler in the business bus busAn An affidavit by Baldwin declared that he be saw Ziegler off ocr on the tile train ostensibly ee for tor Missouri and that later Ziegler told Cold him that he had hacI been to Missouri aid d that his business bus there was successful It was wag aa shown that tbt the name of W Ziegler appeared on the register of or orthe the Southern hotel on the lath lith in what is I claimed to be Kellys writing and od that somebody was wan at the hotel under WIlder that name At tile the close el Governor den bush said Id he would give dve the Missouri J people two weeks In hi which to submit briefs and lers counsel two weeks after alter that in which to answer them 1 |