South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-21
Hearing on HabeaS Corpus viii
be Held at SherbrOOke-
Freedom if Given May be
Short Lived.
C0NGER SAYS THAW
IS SURE TO RETURN
New York Official States That
He is There to Get Noted
Fugitive and He Intends to
Get His Man.

SHERBROOKE, Aug. 21.-Harry
X. Thaw will be across the American
border in the state of Vermont by
Thursday night If Thursdays events
In the case Of the fugitive from Mat
teawan shape themselves as Canadian
officials in close touch with the pro-
ceedings anticipate.
This was the semi-official intima-
ton here Wednesday night as Thaw
awaits a hearing on the habeas cor
pus writ, his counsel secured Wednes-
day.
1t is not denied that official opin-
Ion inclines TO the belief that habeas
corpus viii result in Thaw being de-
cleared a free man. What follows plans
of the immigration authorities indi-
cate lies in the hands Of inspectors
ID. II. Reynolds and +. r. Williams of
Ottawa These two officials, imme-
diately Thaw Is released by the court,
II Is understood. will take him into
custody 90 an undesirable under the
Immigration act and rush the fugitive
TO COaticoOk.
Taken Him To- Border.
At the immigration office the formal
deportation proceedings will be con-
fetal inquiry into the manner Of
Thaw's entrance into the country and
his past history which debars him
from remaining in Canada These
fomalities ended Thaw will be taken
on board a Grand TV1nk train and
taken to the border. where Messrs.
Reynolds and Williams will hand him
over 10 the American authorities.
The point Of deportation indicated
T4-fT no Te1a a
nearest border station on the Grand
Trunk about twenty miles south of
COaticoOk.
Stanford Whites erratic slayer, or
dinarily loquacious, has shut his lips
tight and for once in his life has re-
fused 10 be iIterviewed. He. has talk
ed vaguely OF matters not appertain-
ing to his escape but not one word has
come from his regarding his flight
the plot that led TO his delivery or
Of the five men who spirited him
away
One Man Arrested.
OF these five, one is believed TO be
IN Jail at SherbrOoke He gave the
name OF Mitchell Thompson, and in
sisted that he was a resident OF TorOn-
10. But both Sheriff Hornbeck and
District Attorney Conger Of Dutchess
county. y. Y. who looked him over
"Wednesday said he was none other
than Gentleman Roger" Thompson.
late Of New York city and reputed
chauffeur Of the Black automobile
that whirled Thaw from Matteawan at
more than sixty miles an hour.
Thompson was idling in the superior
court room, waiting for the Thaw case
10 come up, when the immigration
officers arrested him. He was quick
y identified as one OF the two men
with Thaw, when he was arrested near
COaticook Tuesday. He denied that
he had aided Thaw in crossing the
border and maintained that he had
met the fugitive by chance. Notwith-
standing his protestations OF limo,
cence, he was held in $500 bail for a
hearing Friday. Unable 10 furnish
the bond. he was remanded 10 Jail.
Charged With Helping DunatiC.
Technically. he IS charged with aid
ing and abetting a lunatic 10 cross the
Canadian border. an offense punish
able With a $500 fine. If the authori-
ties fail 20 hold him on this charge,
District Attorney COnger will seek his
SNtradition on a warrant charging
Roger Thompson with conspiring with
others 10 defeat ends Of Justice in
nbGrating Thaw.
The warrant is here but will not be
pressed until the immigration law
violation has been tested.
ThompSon's defense. II is under
stood. will emphasize (provided he ad-
mits coming across the border with
Thaw), the contention that Thaw has
not been found insane in Canada and
that assisting him 20 enter was there
fore. not a violation OF the law In
this way the question of Thaw's sanity
viii De involved in the procedure
separate from his own case.
Those who expected picturesque
French-Canadian scenes were sadly
disappointed. The learned judge did
not appear az all, granting the appli-
cation for the writ of habeas corpus
In private Thaw remained through
out the day in the Jail on the crest OF
a hill, half a mile away. Openly
partisan 10 the fugitive in their gos-
SIP, the toW1speOple nevertheless
showed their comparative lack OF in
terest by their absence from the
court house
Though there are 10000 persons in
SherbroOke. less than 500 came 10 the
court OF these % were women.
There was the usual crauing OF necks.
the usual whispers. and the usual
speculation. but showing and crowding
was conspicuously lacking.
Messrs. Conger and Hornbeck
waited like the others for the dispO-
sitiOn OF the Thsw case. and departed
with the immigration authorities when
81 was announced that the application
for the writ Of habeas corpus had been
granted and would come up for ar
Gument IN the morning.
Il am here 20 get Thaw." said Con-
ger. Get him i Will"