U.S. Circuit Court for New York April 30, 1900 (In re Dawson)

LAGOMBE, Circuit Judge.

The facts in the case are as follows: On February 20, 1900, the British consul general at Yew York made a complaint charging that one James Dawson did heretofore, at Durban, South Africa, commit the crime of embezzlement of the sum of £700; that he was a fugitive from justice, and now within the territory of the United States.