EXTBADITION. 51 



demand the aid of the sheriff of the county, and may call to his as^sistance a suffi- 

 cient number of persons to enforce the law, my experience convinces me that this 

 mode of procedure is not satisfactory, and I would earnestly urge that the legisla- 

 ture make such provision in tlie way of an availaVjle appropriation as to enable the 

 commissioner, with the consent of the governor, to place a force of at least twenty 

 wardens in tliat locality when necessary " (p. 10). 



ARREST OK TRESPASSERS BY LAXDOW.VER. 



By an act passed in Connecticut in 1903 (chap. 199), antiiority is 

 given the owner, occupant, or person in charge of land, or such per- 

 sons as h<^ ma}' command to assist him, to arrest any person entering 

 upon his premises for the purpose of hunting, trapping, fishing, or 

 destroying nests and eggs of birds; and to take such trespasser forth- 

 with before some proper authority, who shall, upon complaint of the 

 proper prosecuting officer, proceed to try such person. The posses- 

 sion b}' a trespasser of gun, dog, ferret, or tish rod is made prima 

 facie evidence of his intention to hunt or iishonthe land. The person 

 arresting such trespasser is entitled to the fees usually allowed consta- 

 bles for similar service. 



EXTRADITION. 



Under the constitution of the United States a person charged in any 

 State with treason, felony, or other crime who shall flee from justice 

 shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which 

 he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction 

 of the crime. (Art. 4, sec. 2.) 



To carry this provision into effect. Congress has passed an act providing substan- 

 tially that whenever the executive of any State shall dewiand any person, as a fugi- 

 tive from justice, of the executive authority of another State to which such person 

 shall have lied, and shall, moreover, produce the copy of an indictment found, or an 

 affidavit made before a magistrate of the demanding State, charging tlie person so 

 demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime, certified as authen- 

 tic Ijy the governor or chief magistrate of the demanding State, it shall be the duty of 

 the executive authority of the State on which the demand is made to cause him or her 

 to be arrested and secured, and Jo give] notice of the arrest to the executive authority 

 making such demand, or to the agent of such authority ai>pi linti'd to receive the fugi- 

 tive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent wlicn he shall appear. 

 But if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the 

 prisoner may be discharged. (Clark's Criminal Procedure, ]i. 62. ) See also Rev. 

 Stats., U. S., sec. 5278. 



Cases of extradition under the game laws nrv, comparatively rare, 

 possibly because the viohitions of such laws are usually mere)}' misde- 

 meanors, and l)ecause, until recently, of the laxity in enforcement. 

 In late years, however, several cases have occurred in which extradition 

 proceedings were necessary to bring to justice residents of New Yoric 



"See also an account by I). C. Beaman of a previous raid in IJoutt (\)Uiity in Octo- 

 ber, 1897, entitled 'The Colorailo ( iamc Wardens and the I'te Indians,' in Forest 

 and Stream, L, p. 27, January 8, 18!»8. 



