EXTRADITION. 51 



demand the aid of the sheriff of the county, and may call to his assistance 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 the way of an available appropriation as to enable the 

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

 wardens in that locality when necessary a (p. 10). 



ARREST OF TRESPASSERS BY LANDOWNER. 



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

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

 sons as he may 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 by a trespasser of gun, dog, ferret, or fish rod is made prima 

 facie evidence of his intention to hunt or fish on the 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 demand any person, as a fugi- 

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

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

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

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

 tic by 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 [to give] notice of the arrest to the executive authority 

 making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugi- 

 tive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when 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, p. 62.) See also Rev. 

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



Cases of extradition under the game laws are comparatively rare, 

 possibly because the violations of such laws are usually merely misde- 

 meanors, and because, 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 York 



a See also an account by D. C. Beaman of a previous raid in Routt County in Octo- 

 ber, 1897, entitled 'The Colorado Game Wardens and the Ute Indians,' in Forest 

 and Stream, L, p. 27, January 8, 1898. 



