| Show UTAH MUST mm TO GET CRIMINALS attitude of state causes annoyance to department at washington hakes it look foolish complications L in case of Dc defaulting faulting saps japs this is the situation 11 three japs charged with embezzling thousands ot of dollars belonging to their countrymen in utah are under provisional detention in japan by the of the department ot of state stale it at washington the state depart department luent at wasl washington I 1 fears it is about to be made foolish in the eyes of 0 J japan apan the state or 0 utah is awaiting advices advises from washington before taking further action according to ili an announcement at governor john C cutlers butlers Cut lers office yesterday thirty seven japs jap s and twelve business firms ot of box bos elder county are still mourning the loss of tile the alleged criminals will escape prosecution unless tile the state of utah hurries tile the three japs charged with embezzlement bezz lement are J Oka okazaki I 1 ind and Na Nag gomoto they were custodians of money belonging to japanese laborers employed in the beet fields and about the sugar factory fact t ory in box elder county they left suddenly last fall leaving obligations of 1 of OC this amount 1150 belonged to tile the jape n cese e S e laborers I 1 ab the rest ot of the shortage consisted of amounts life due business firms and other americans in ili box elder county including the garland bank ing company and the utah sugar company requests they be held warrants charging the three japs with embezzlement were issued in box elder appeared governor cutler received a telegram front from elihu root secretary of state in december s saying lying the state department had reason to believe the three japs were on a steamer to japan and asking whether warrants ware were out against the men in fit utah the governor replied that lie he understood warrants were ivere out and asked that the men be detained for extradition at the japanese port either the men were not on that steamer or they escaped detection when the vessel reached japan burthey but they were taken into custody in japan by request of the state department part ment later according to advices advises to the herald from washington depart department ment acts ag again a in the next move was made in utah atall governor cutler wrote to tile tie state stale fie de apartment part ment to say that utah had no funds to pay the cost of extradition which would cost 1000 to 2000 and that lie he would not take up the matter of extradition unless the men that lost the money would bear the expense following the receipt of tile the governors letter the state department lepart part ment cabled to the japanese governor to release the men the governor then communicated walli W the state department again expressly requesting qUesting Ve that the men lie taken into custody again as the men that were defraud eil had fall agreed to pay tile the cost of cit extradition the state slate de again renewed its request quest re to japan for the provisional detention of the three men japan replied to this by a I 1 cable asking the nature of the offense against the men to determine whether it were in fit the provisions of the extradition treaty 1 this request was referred to the governor about march 1 who replied by telegraph about a week ago giving the ini Im formation requested and adding that the state of utah was not willing in to assume indefinite expenses for t the I 1 to extradition of the men departments dilemma it was at this point that the state department began to be uneasy and to fear IV it would be made foolish in the eyes of oc japan under ordinary circumstances circumstanced the department would woul have dropped dropp edthe the case at this point phit as states stales are required to bear tile the expense of 0 extraditing their criminals but having made its request for detention twice aud and having withdrawn it once the department fears japan will suspect the department of not knowing its own business if a second withdrawal is made the department is further represented as holding that to drop tile the case now will be to 10 servo serve notice to crim criminals finals that utah offers 1 a I fair field for their operations erat crat ions and that to drop the proceedings ce at this stage will tend to make the department slow to act on requests front from utah in ili future feature of the situation is that the period of provisional detention is only 60 lays days the second le ie quest for detention was fiade about two weeks ago leaving about 10 lo 15 i lays days in which to forward papers to washington and front from there to japan unless tile papers reach japar japan before the me expiration of GO CO days tile the a alleged criminals will bo be set at liberty and will be exempt from proceedings ce salt lake herald |
