| Show RETURN OF STENSLAND It the Id hiNt MI has bar h prevailed among de tie defaulters that they the arc are Mf safe af as Il soon as 11 they the have h e reached a country which SOlS does not happen to have an extradition t treaty treat with lith the United Staler Slates the fate fale ot of Stensland the Chicago hunker hanker who liar lias h 8 just Jun bren 1 returned from Morocco o should undercut them The rhe principle of ut extradition the authorities My aay Aa Is II t by b alt all governments whether r rIt It Is I embodied In III a R treaty or not As AI Asa s sa a matter malter of lt courtesy courier criminals criminal who take refuge In a foreign J country are nearly always alwa 1 returned 00 when hen their return Is II asked for There U is I however a common under understanding standing that Inu t not ot be granted If It the he crime of ot which the fugi fugitive tive tivo I La IA is III net not A ii 1 crime a tag Inc to th l s I of the In tA which h h hh be tie h has hall tough sought I refuge reha e In nie with lIh this political rt It nd s sm art m generally safe lafe M ax won as nl the they eroes th border b r cr of If f the In which their IMir Is I commute committed Th i are a in monarchical It titi this That 0 14 not rot bt in this thin country and the tho extradition treaties could not be construed to Impose Imp so upon the American government gO the tho duty to surrender foreigners subjected to charges of that hot kind abroad Another nother Important principle Is also ilso recognized t as governing In irs corer of or extradition It Is II this thill that a II prisoner who ho has hall be been n surrendered to a govern government ment meat which has demanded his hll extradition tion may not be Ie tried or punished at ar arIll tw Ill his for tor any other crime then than he time one for tor which he was extra exira extradited tiled This Is II very ery nr Important be because cause unless this rule is II strictly ob oh served erred A government might secure s re the arrest of ot a at patriot triot on the charge of or murder sad and then try Ir him tot for u a purely purel politics political roll I otten A t r who signs himself Ex Ix x xIt It bt tells tell tho the story atol of the tho sur lur surrender render reader by b the tb United States to the government of or a Spanish fu Lu fugitive U although no extradition treaty Ireat existed the two countries at ut atthe atthe the time He lie e ear rs ys President Lincoln In 1161 caused the and nd the surrender to the Spanish authorities of ot a man awn of the tho name namo of or in the th of or any an ex cx extradition tradition trusty treaty treal with Spain Arguelles who he be had md un n the time lieutenant governor of a It pronte In ii n Cuba was charged with a number of oC atrocious crimes against common law among Amont the minor l being one to time the effect Ct that he hI h h hillS had 4 sold old Into slavery several everal hun hundred hundred dred fired Illegally brought from runs Africa On time the authority of 01 Secretary of ot State Stale Seward Senard ho he was arrested by b a u United State Stat marshal and turned over overto overto to It the tM Spanish who Iho took him buck back to Havana HalIna for trial A motion was u at once anee made In tn the th United Stairs Statu Senate railing the President to account I In the matter arguing ar that In the ab I of ot a treaty of oC extradition and andl of l congressional legislation I touching the surrender of ot fugitive criminals to the Spanish government he had lied exceeded ue his hie powers as chief magistrate l I To this Secretary of ot State Seward replied tn to the effect that the tho President bd had d gives given up Arguelles under the ruled nf ht If International comity which prescribe as U a matter of ot courtesy the tho compliance with wills demands of ot this kind by byone h hone byone one civilized power to another and h hadded he added that hail had likewise act art acted arted ed 1 In the affair In accordance with th the spirit of ot the Constitution of or the Unit Volt United ed cd States Slates which l III ii not In favor of ot the principle of fit affording asylum to fuel tire criminals from froni abroad hut but nt dir dis distinctly averse thereto The return re tUrn of ot Stensland from frons Mo Morocco Io roeco rocco fO should be an nil to all au who may need It II There Is III no place of ot fety for Cor evIldoers but even If IC they the should chance to get out of oC the reach of ot human humasi Justice they the cannot escape eternal retribution their own conscience con nor button |
