| Show Lair DUt TIOF auuo An Adlecinal n 1 0 n ITZ0 I ST Louis Jan ThlMfguiiiaiili In the case of Ellas Hi Webb aaerlfl JVrapahoo county Colo apteilant ajaluit ilinoja U York APPall e have been finished in the United State circuit court of appeals In this city and a decision will probably be ron acted today The facts as disclosed by Ibo record are full of Interco and demonstrate that a technicality It sometimes Mora effective In getting a criminal out of trouble than Tony Wellet famous alibi 11 appear that bmma O York In Alston IbSil was eDKOlod at Bin Francisco a < a sick noted at the bedilde ol C F QibifM rue tick man died March ID 160J and the same day Emma tiaried for the East taking witn bar 22500 In cold citing toe propsrt y 01 the need man Adella Ulbjou presumably the I wife or near relative of the deceased at once mU complaint 10 the police who wired to Denver where the fugitive live was duly arrested and held awaiting requisition pipers The requisition was duly forwarded but 1 just na they were about to load the prisoner back to California In custody of an officer commissioned for the purposes pur-poses a writ ot habeas corpus was Is I med by Judge liallell of the United Bialea district smart before whom a bearing was bad The prisoners counsel contended that she should be released because complaint sworn out In Ban Francisco and a copy of which was attached to the requisition did net charge a crime against the laws of California and did not charge a crime against laws of Colorado The complaint which was sworn to by Adella Utbaon It appears simply charged that Emma G York bad em bId and converted lu her own use the sum of S22500 which bad been entrusted to her a3 bottom by C F Gibson Tbat looks clear enough lo the lay mind but the Ingenious lawyers law-yers came forward and said It was defective de-fective because II did not set out the facts showing Ibo terms of the bailment bail-ment or Ihe circumstances under which she was entrusted with the money The court agreed witn consul and ordered the prisoner discharged I The other aide appealed and Ibo prisoner was released on bonds In the sum of 1000 Bhu is I probably by Ibis time tale at her destination lu New Brunswick aod may snap her fingers at the courts |
