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Show EXTRADITION HEARING ON . Greene and Gaynor Case Comes Up Before British Brit-ish Privy Council. LONDON, Dec. 18. The appeal of the United States against the decision of the Justice of the Crown at Quebec in the case of Greene and Gaynor came up before be-fore the Privy Council today. Sir Edward Ed-ward Clarke, K. C, who, with Donald McMaster, K. C, of Montreal, represents repre-sents the United States, opened the case, reciting the well-known facts. It is now more than five years since Greene and Gaynor, who . were concerned con-cerned with Oberlin M. Carter in the Savannah harbor contract, escaped to Canada and settled in Montreal. Carter was sentenced to five years In prison, and the United States Government applied ap-plied for a writ of extradition for Gaynor Gay-nor and Greene. When the writ was made out by a Montreal extradition commission the two men fled down the St. Lawrence to Quebec. The United States officers went after them, caught them in Quebec after af-ter a hot and dramatic chase, and brought them back to Montreal. Through habeas corpus proceedings Greene and Gaynor were taken back to Qutiei nrid. a lonj le-rnl contro versy, they obtained their liberty within with-in the limits of the province of Quebec . The United States Government appealed ap-pealed to the Privy Council of England. |