"Extradition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... line, he would be beyond their grasp until the Sheriff's huntsmen had whistled in their pack and gone grumbling back to conform with the law's intricate requirements. At that point the man-hunt fell into another jurisdiction and extradition papers would involve correspondence between a governor at Richmond and a ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... office is in New South Wales, and the police-barracks in Bananaland. The police cannot do anything if there's a row going on across the street in New South Wales, except to send to Brisbane and have an extradition warrant applied for; and they don't do much if there's a row in Queensland. Most of the rows are across the border, where the ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... New York, Byrnes, procured a court order for the arrest of Emma Goldman. She was detained by the Philadelphia authorities and incarcerated for several days in the Moyamensing prison, awaiting the extradition papers which Byrnes intrusted to Detective Jacobs. This man Jacobs (whom Emma Goldman again met several years later under very unpleasant circumstances) proposed to her, while she was returning a prisoner to New York, to betray the cause of labor. In the name ...
— Anarchism and Other Essays • Emma Goldman
... Milburgh with a wide sweep of his hands. "I merely suggest that both Miss Rider and myself are in very serious trouble and that you have it in your power to get us safely out of this country to one where extradition laws ...
— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace
... we couldn't hold him without the extradition papers from Australia. We sent for 'em; they're due to-day or to-morrow on the ...
— Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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