Show SS S If Extradition Difficulties 1 o S HARDEE of Florida can in no nc ncI noI GOVERNOR I Lx way be blamed for the difficulties encountered the Utah a authorities in their effort to tc t t red ed by in I have J. J D. D Myers said to be Milton D. D Joseph Josephr returned r t here for trial on charges of embezzle embezzle- i S i i ment ent In all all of the proceedings the Florida executive has shown a kindly spirit of cooperation S t ti tin tion n with the Utah authorities He abandoned his his plans to hold a hearing when habeas corpus proceedings P w were re instituted and immediately signed the extradition papers Moreover when the case was thrown into the Florida courts by attorneys for Myers he provided leg legal f 1 t talent lent fent to tb protect the interests The court action indi indicates of the the Utah authorities c cites cates tes the difficulties to be met in effecting ther the r return turn of a fugitive where a spirited resistance is 15 fea feasible ible to send the wholeS whole offered It It is hardly S r of state witnesses on an an extradition lion Hon S And And yet it would seem that this thi course is al almost almost al- al most necessary judging from the th contentions entered e by attorneys for Myers or Joseph The man nan sent by the Utah authorities to identify the prisoner held for the crime committed in Utah was examined concerning his bis actual knowledge O of ot the crime I In n brief the habeas corpus proceedings proS proc pro pro- S edings c resolved into an actual trial of the case caseS S without giving the state of Utah opportunity to present its witnesses r The course of the proceedings in Florida does 0 not incline to a harmonious interchange of relations rela rela- ions between the several states spates tates At a glance it would uld seem that all Il the Florida authorities should have been concerned with was whether or not nota a a. crime had been committed in Utah and whether or or not the man held in Florida was the man wanted anted t here The complaint was was prima facie evidence e that th t the th crime crim had been committed and ad i ithe the identification atio by the Utah witness would seem sufficient to honor the extradition The fact that I the identifying witness was not an eyewitness to t the crime would se m to have little or no bearing bearingS S on the case I 1 S f V |