Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-26
JEROME AGAIN.
ThaH'S Old Prosecutor Will
Again Oppose Him.
Appearance Of Ex.GOV. Stone Of
Pa. Gives International Twist.
Ihaw Makes siatement..Rec elves
Grisi of Free Advice.

| A4A al ~ W 4Fllti III dNtIS jerome, ttit
Irg Kendall Thaw's old prosecutor the
assumption ny Ex-Governor VIM 4.
Stone ut Pennsylvania of the posi-
tIcn of spokesman here for the Thaw
family. pending the coming of Roger
G'Mafa the Pittsburgh detective. and
| she injection into the ease of renewed
| talk of wider international aspects
| were briefly the chief developments Of
the day in Sherhrooke. the ninth since
| stanford Whites slayer fled from Ma
teawan.
| II ThaW was teTrorized by Jeromes
looming he succeeded in concualing his
| feeling 10 all who visited him III his
| cell Again he spoke of Jerome sheer
| Hgly, calling him Willie" and in
| sisted that his lawyers reissue
| summary Of Jeromes remarks made,
| N 1908. when he said that no one had
ever contcnded that Hhaw was insane.
or The lighter incidents of a dag
Of Xcitement-exciting principally be-
cause Of what might happen-was
Thaw's show Of temper over the fact
that his breakfast was 10 minutes late
| ARD his continued esratic statements
relative To the plans for the publicity
campaign which he regards as more
important than any legal aspect of his
case.
The possibility of an international
twist HI the case came from ex-Gov.
Stone. who raised the point that a
Canadian, embroiled IL the Dominion's
ifonclad immigration law regulations,
would doubtless have a right to APP
peal to the courts ThaW, it had been
said, would have no such privilege, no
opportunity to appeal should he be
| ordered departed. except to the min
ister Of the interior at Ottawa. Mr..
Stone regarded this as contrary to the
treaty between Canada and the Unit
ed States guaranteeing to American
citizens before Canadian courts the
same rights as Canadians.
I'm my opinion" said Mr.. Stone,
the SNOW will be deep in Sherbrooite
before Thaw leaves Canadian soil"
None of the contingent of Thaw's
| counsel would commit himself as &c
| Mr.. Stones views, although all cons
coded that the authority OF the drastic
immigration lava comparatively ne&
one. had never been tested in the
| courts They said that SO far as they
| knew the procedure outlined, last
| week. would be followed, that of ar
raigning Thaw in the superior court.
Wednesday. on a writ of habeas cor
pas obtaining his release on the pres
| ent commitment making q fight before
| the immigration board and then re-
linqushing to the American lawyers,
| If ThaW were deported. the manage
| tF ., Iot : in,
Mr. jerome arrived in town. about
! 1.45 o'clock this afternoon. He had come
I bv automobile all the way from New
| York. Mir Jerome said he had not fol-
| lowed in New England the route TAX
| en- By Thaw, for the reason that he did
| not KNOW it.
THE question of extraditing Thaw
| frem Vermont he said, will rest en-
| tirely with the Governor. Politics some
| times enters into a case of this sort.
Both sides can present their case to
| the Governor in the form of briefs,
then it is up TO the Governor to do just
as he pleases. The relations of our
states are uncertain in the matter of
| eXtradition.S
NJ. Jerome passed the afternoon in
| conference with E. A. Conger, district
| attorney of Duchess county. New
| York, and the Canadian lawyers re-
tanned to represent the New York state
interests in court. 1t could not be de-
terinined whether the immigration
boz rds hearing would be held in CO.
aticool, or sherbrooke. d. Y. Reynolds
:. agent Of the immigration bureau, ht
said. If might lie decided to hold the
/ A.. L
Vantages of the court house.
Tonight it was said that it would bt
necessary to take the prisoner TO Co
atieook, a port Of entry. and have tn,
session IN the so-called immigration
shed
lhdW Will of course, be represented
by counsel and will have the right Il
produce witnesses in his behalf. Th,
: questions which will be fought out arr
whether he is an undesirable alien
, either as lunatic or n person confin
ed in lunatic asylum within a perio,
Of five years, or a person who crossed
, the border by stealth anu misrcpresen
tation.
Norton Mills, Vermont, a station
abcat 10 miles southeast of CCaticooli
is the point tentatively selected 70
handing Thaw back across the border
In anticipation of this the New Yori
> interests were laying plans for his i'm
mediate detention once he is ON Yer
\ mont soil. on warrants issued a
Poughlzcepsie These charge Thaw wit
CoEspiring with Howard Barnum. tn
= ole Matteawan gatekeeper, and other
In his plot to escape. Whether the Yer
moJt authorities will regard such
! warrant as void, inasmuch as Thaw
legally a lunatc in New York, no
ohargeahlc with any crime, IS prob
O lematieal
Thaw gave to the local Sherbrook
t daily, today a personally prepare
: st&tement II WAS in part rs follows;
In Vermont we know that there ar
d good Amerieans-an that not on m
!. account but just from downright up
iiehtness- they won't allow any trick
II cry 10 lie used against any one.
I'm Matteawan ! saw good deal c
an Old Vermont lawyer, Arthur Austin
+, Mr. Austin may have suffered from
a mental disease, some years ago. but afte
1908 he was sane. yet was being kept AZ
= parently for life in the host hdeous ma
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