The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-28
Victorious on Three Legal
Points in Court at Sher-
brooke Yesterday
WILD DEMONSTRATION
FOR THE FUGITIVE
Cheered and Applauded by Spectators
Judge Called the Scene Disgraceful
Attorneys Now Plan to Secure
Thaw's Release on Bail.

Attorneys Now Plan to Secure
Thaw's Release on Bail
SIlERBROOkE, Z. O., August 2S.-
Harry X. Thaw won three victories
from the New York state authorities
here yesterday, and was locked last I
night III the Jail, immune for the time I
being from the Dominion immigration /
authorities, after having received an /
ovation from the townspeople Of Sher /
krooi>e that would have done honor to /
q prince Of roval blood. So riotous
was the scene IN the superior court
when, at the morning session. Judge
! Arthur Globensky refused to allow
counsel representing New York state to
/ be party To the proceedings, that the
! court subsequently warned spectators
/ that a repetition Of the cheering, chair
/ climbing handkerchief waving and gen
eral hysteria would mean jail sentences
/ Tor the demonstrants Speaking from
the bench at the afternoon session he
said that never in his experience as
a member of the bar and of the bench
had he been witness to such
disgraccful scene. 1t was carried
out in the presence Of court attendants
ana four armed Dominion police. who
stood immobile while emotional women
rushed toward Stanford White : slayer
CRYING, .'Thrae cheers for Thaw,
,'Thrce cheers for the British flag, We
viii give YOU justice, Harry.
Last night. with Thaw 5 term of
confinement indeterminate and the key
to the riddle unfound, there was a gen
eral exodus of those who rushed thith-
er after the fugitive : sensational es-
cape from Matteawan, IL days ago.
William Travers jerome, former prose
cutor of Thaw and specialist on mat
tcrs appertaining TO his life. left last
night for Quebec, accompanied by
Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney
general of New York Today will de-
part District Attorney 4. A. Conger Of
putchcss county, Sheriff Frederick
IIornbeell of that county, 0upcrintend-
cut kieb of Matteawan, John +. Mack,
former district attorney of Dutchess
county and with him sheriffs and dep
uty sheriffs of Vermont and New
Hampshire, who were ready to string
themselves along the border line and
seize Thaw in the event of his de-
uortatiou Messrs. jerome and Ken
neIy will confer at Quebec with the
attorney general of the province in the
hope that he as the province 5 chief
officer of the crown, may be able 70
open the legal lock- that holds Thaw in
iail The three points in which Thaw 5
LAWYERS were successful in their trst
legal skirmish werc:-
New York state was denied the right
to be party to the proceedings IN
court.
Counsel for the state failed in their
efforts to have Thaw arraigned before
a magistrate and the commitment on
which he is held quashcd. This would
have released him to the immigration
authorities.
| Judge Giobensiv granted the plea
Of Thaw i counsel for q ise0ntinuancc
Of the writ of habeas corpus, which
might have brought about his release
Yesterday This remedied strategic
blundcr made by Thaw 5 attorneys last
: week, who apparently did not realize
= then that in seeking their client 5 re-
!, lease they were playing into the op-
position S hands.
From his cell last night Thaw issued
the following statement: May | ack
knowledge the fair play accorded 10y
!, everyone since my arrival in Canada
and express my gratitude for the sym
patnN SHOWN Dy 1ahadidh PeoPle u htS
present struggle TO regain my liberty
and to thank especially all the Cana
dians that | have come in contact Will
J personally. 1t is much better than
j, deserve and entirely at variance will
: the malice shown III New York. 1t i
: only fair to make clear that the people
;, of New York are all right no unfair
= ness can be found in the people o
New York \ proof of this was foun'
= in the vicious opposition to giving m'
~ an honest jury trial shown by the un
= demo. cratic attorneyg general He an'
" his pals know that a New York Jur,
would stand for fair play, too