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Show REFUSE 10 ill! THE REOUISiTION v Governor William Spry yesterday morning wired to'GovernoV John A. Dlx ot Now York declining lo honor the requisition papers for tho return of Ernest R. Woollcy, local mining man, who was recently Indicted by a ccny in the first degree for alleged crookednoss In Big Ploche (Nevada) raining deals. Governor Spry says his reason for refusing the requisition Is that he Is convinced from evidence before him that to prosecute Woollcy on tho charge jof tho Indictment Is not the sole purpose for soaking his return to Now York. The affidavit attached to the application for requisition states, of course, that the extradition Is not asked for the purpose of collecting col-lecting a debt t of satisfying civil action, but the governor Is Inclined to bollove that there aro other rea- j sons at the back of the scheme to tako I .- ,.Vv. v..-,.. m nM i,, -ij buu ii vendition ven-dition on the Indictment. Woollcy Is allogcd in tho grand jury's charge to have sold a group of worthless mining claims for $15,000 worth of capital stock In the Neada-Utah Neada-Utah Mines company. He was Indicted Indict-ed for alleged grand larcenv in the first degree and Detective "Edmund Leigh, who Is still In Salt Lake City, was sent there as the representative of Governor Dlx to take Woollcy baclc Woolloy was arrested, but was released re-leased on his owu recognizance Detective Leigh said yesterday, that while ho would onjoy being at home with his fdmll for Christmas, he is propared to remain as long as It may bo deemed necessarv by his department depart-ment to secure the end for which he came the return of Mr. Woolloy to tho metropolis to answer In tho courts the charges thnt havo boon filed there Mr. Woolloy in a statement last night at Salt Lake, asserts that "the Indictment was obtained by my enemies ene-mies withholding certain important facts which deprive the transaction of a criminal element from the grand Jury and the district attorney." Tho Indictment was found, ho says, only after ho had reiected forms of settlement urged upon him by representatives repre-sentatives of his "enemies" In the oast. Speaking on tho specific charge against him. that of unloading on the Nevada-Utah company for $lfi.000 a claim that cost him only $300, he says; "Tho property was purchased bv tho Rocky Mountain Investment companv, In which I am a large stockholder, from Alex Colbath and Dan O'Brien, April 27, 1911. The Investment company com-pany purchased from me 350,000 shares of tho Carbonate Mining company com-pany at 7 1-2 cents a share and pold me tho Nevada claim for $15,000. which was credited as part pavment on tho Carbonate stock I wired from 9 Nnw Ynrt- in lmvo tho AnnA moHn -.!. 9 but through a mistake my as;cnt made M the -deed direct from Co'bath and O'Brien to me. although a deed bv 1 them (o the Investment company was on credit. I deeded the propertv to 1 the Nevada-Utah tor $15,000, " the H amount I paid for it. As a matter of fact Colbath received I only $300 for the property, since be I was In tho employ of the Rocky I Mountain Investment comnanv, and n was directed to locate the property I for tho company." m The directors of the Nevada-Utah, 1 Tdr Woolloy says. In conclusion, have I given him a written release from all claims of every nature that might bo made by the companv nftor his retire- I ment from the presidency. j ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. IS. Governor i Dlx was advised tod.iv of the refusal of Governor Sprv to honor the requl- S sltlon for the extradition of Ernest R jj Woolley on a charge of grand lar- cony The governor said tho offlco of the New York district attorney hnd assured him It was Intended to prose- j cute Woolley crlmlna'lv. n |