People v. Rowe
Superior Court of Buffalo
A warrant was issued by the police justice of the city of Buffalo to arrest the prisoner upon a charge of grand larceny, and delivered to a deputy sheriff of Erie county for service. The prisoner being in Canada, the deputy sheriff made an arrangement with some person or police officer in Canada to bring the prisoner to this side.
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A warrant was issued by the police justice of the city of Buffalo to arrest the prisoner upon a charge of grand larceny, and delivered to a deputy sheriff of Erie county for service. The prisoner being in Canada, the deputy sheriff made an arrangement with some person or police officer in Canada to bring the prisoner to this side. Such person took the prisoner by the arm, at or on the Suspension Bridge, on the Canadian side, and forced him across the bridge into this State, the deputy sheriff accompanying him, and, at this end of the bridge, the deputy arrested the prisoner under the warrant,…
1Opinion of the CourtClinton, J.
The objection to the arrest has no application to the indictment. For aught that appears in the papers, that could and would have been found whether the defendant was within the jurisdiction or not. There is no reason shown for quashing the indictment.
*254As to the arrest, it was undoubtedly the fruit of an agreement for a violation of the prisoner’s right of personal liberty on Canadian soil. For that he has, we presume, a remedy in the Canadian courts, and, perhaps, in our own. Whether the dignity of Great Britain has been insulted by the act of its subject in hurrying the prisoner across the…
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