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Show i oo RELEASED BY SUPREME COURT John Mark, nllas George Crus, the gipsy, was released from the county jail today by order of the district court, which court acted upon the Instructions In-structions of tho supreme ccmrt of the state in a remittitur reversing the decision de-cision of Judge pro torn John G. Willis, Wil-lis, denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In the early part of March, Crus was arrested In this city on advlso from the officers of Alpine county, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, that ho was a fugitive from' justice, jus-tice, and that he had stolen $2,200 from his parents near Laramie. Requisition Req-uisition papers were Issued by the governor gov-ernor of Wyoming and they were honored hon-ored by Governor S,pry of Utah, An officer from Wyoming came to Ogden for Crus, but Judge, Horn, attorney for the defendant, appealed to the district dis-trict court for a writ of habeas corpus, cor-pus, Mr. Willis bolng appointed to henr the case as judge pro tem, Judge Howell being 111. The grounds upon which the writ was asked were that there had not been filed in the justice's court of Alplno county, Wyoming, a complaint as required by law, and that because of that there could bo no facts upon which to predicate extradition. Another ground given was that the officers or Wyoming were not acting In good faltH.'but that thev wore simply sim-ply seeking to collect an amount of money for Wyoming parties and thnt " the defondant should not be vtrsAsed of his liberty for that purpose. It was also contended that tho Information filed in the Justice's court of Wyoming Wyom-ing did not show that an offense had been committed and that the information informa-tion was not supported by affidavit other than upon "information and belief." be-lief." v It was contended that the affidavit of "information and belief was Insufficient In-sufficient to warrant extraditing of the defendant from the state of Utah. Judge Willis denied the petition for the writ and the defendant was remanded re-manded to tho custody of tho sheriff. sher-iff. The matter was appealed to the supreme court and that court has sustained sus-tained the contention of the attorney for the defendant, and today ordered the lower court to act in accordance with its decision. At the time of the arrest of Crus he claimed tnat tho people of whom he took the money, ho claiming it to have been only S1,000( wero not his parents, but that they had abducted him from his home in South America when he was but a child, and that they had held him since that time. He "considered that the money he took was rightfully his as a ransom for his unlawful keeping. He said he desired de-sired to make his way back to his home and parents in South America and that he had taken the money to defray the necessary expensos Incident Inci-dent "to the return trip. The gypsies have been here for the past six weeks Importuning the authorities au-thorities to release Crus, claiming, however, that he Is their son and that he falsified whon he said he Is not. |