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Show GOVERNOR DECLINES TO EXTRADITE ARMOUR By Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., May 7. Governor Fort today refused- the request ot Prosecutor Garvan of Hudson county for a requisition on the governor ot Illinois for the extradition ot .J. Og-den Og-den Armour, a director ot tho National Pncking company, who is under indictment in-dictment in Hudson county, with other officers and directors of packing companies, com-panies, on a charge of conspiracy to unlawfully enhance the cost ot meat through tho creation of an artificial scarcity of lho same. . Governor Fort .points out first ot all that. in order for extradition papers to bo asked for it was-necessary that tho porson whose extradition was desired be a fugitive from justice and, further, that it was essential that the accused person was in the state of Now Jersey at tho timo of tho commission ot the alleged offense. The governor says the only evidence beforo him of tho presence pres-ence in New Jersey of Mr. Armour at or about tho time of the commission of the alleged offense was his presence iu Hoboken in March, mOS. to tako passage from that city to Europo, and again in June, J90D, on his return from Luropc. |