Before the FBI and Hoover, could US criminals escape trial by just crossing state/territory lines?

by saddetective87

How did inter-state extradition work from 1800-1850? 1850-1900? 1900-1950?

no-tea

Can you narrow down the time period some? Things are very different in the antebellum period, where there was a major coordinated effort to disobey interstate extradition orders in the North as they related to slavery, which makes it a difficult question to answer without narrowing it down.

Then, of course, there's Prohibition, which is a whole other separate problem.