Fascinated Bankers

"We must think of my client, Mr Insull, as a Greek, and judge him as a Greek!"

So cried Demetrios Lazarimos before the five gowned justices of Athens' Court of Appeals sitting in judgment on the U. S. Government's petition to extradite Mr. Insull for trial in Cook County, Ill. on charges of larceny and embezzlement.

Outside the courtroom Athenian crowds roared: "Long live Greek Justice!"

In Athens white-haired Samouel Insullos has become enormously popular. Few Hellenes put their savings in Middle West Utilities. They know Fugitive Insull only as a pleasant old gentleman apparently persecuted by minions of the City of Chicago--an old gentleman who is still not too impecunious to set Greek justice in motion.

The hearing resolved itself into a wrangle between the corps of Insull lawyers and scrawny, bespectacled M. Riganakos, the 50-year-old prosecutor. The five purveyors of Greek justice on the bench were strangely disinclined to listen to masses of evidence. In the midst of the defense's presentation the whole case was cut short and extradition to the U. S. denied. Read the decision: "It does not become evident that Mr. Insull committed the offenses of which he is accused."

The U. S. legation let it be known that no further effort to extradite Mr. Insull will be made. As long as he remains in Greece, Samouel Insullos is a free man.

Greek citizens who did not invest in Insull securities in the past may have a chance to do so in the future. United Pressman Anthony Kedras reported from Athens last week that Mr. Insull was ready to confer with a group of fascinated Greek bankers anxious to exploit Greek railroads, draining projects, electric concerns in the Insull manner.

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