The Prescott daily news., 1913-09-05
WHITES SLAYER, SURROUNDED BY HOSTILE FORCES, TELLS
 OF HIS FLIGHT.
IN MIGRATION HEARING ON
Chairman of Board Says Proceedings May Last Week-Woman Comes With Bouquet for Prisoner,
 but Is Refused Admission.

Coaticook, Quebec, Sept. 5.-Harry K. Thaw, as a witness in his own be- half before special immigration board of inquiry, is making his final fight to prevent his deportation to the United States as an undesirable alien. which, he believes, will mean his in evitable return to Matteawan asylum, in New York, from which he fed
 He was the first witness to occupy the stand at the secret hearing, and his story of his spectacular escape was not complete when adjournment was taken last night. The proceed ings gave little indication of how long the hearing would last
 The fugitive was without the com forting counsel of two of his leading lawyers, J. N. Greenshields and N K. Laflamme, whose absence was un- explained They assisted him in the fight on the habeas corpus proceed ings, in which Thaw tried to prevent his liberation from jail and arrest by immigration authorities.
 
 there was an abundance of repre- of the opposition on hand, including Attorney Jerome, who was ready with much evidence touching on the sanity of the slayer of Sanford White
 Woman Fails to See Thaw.
 There was delay in getting the in quiry under way and Thaw became impatient. He stepped close to win dow and let the crowd get a sight of him. Jerome passed, but did not look up. A woman who came with flowers for Thaw was denied admittance.
 The board produced it's credentials showing that it had been authorized by the acting minister of the interior, c. J. DOherty, to deal ''summarily" with the case.
 Thaw was the first person exam ined. After he had been sworn he was questioned as to his entrance into Canada Thaw said he boarded a train at Rochester, N. H., and that his objective point was Pittsburg. He bought several tickets, he sad, in that his route was uncertain. He told of hiring two farmers to drive him here after leaving the train.
 The scene of the secret hearing was a little office just off the immigration detention room where Thaw is kept under guard.
 Inspectors Reynolds, Williams and ,Garceau assisted at the hearing, and two physicians, Drs. Gurd an Beau champ, were on hand to examine the prisoner. Dr. Raymond Kieb. super intendent of the Matteawan asylum, was held in readiness to testify as to Thaw's confinement there as the in- sane slayer of Stanford White.
 Thaw was indignant when he learned that reports of his breaking down under the strain had been circu- lated. Although no reporters were allowed to see him, he sent this word down by q guard, adding that he had received message from his mother, saying she was on her way here, in response to his appeal.
 William T. Jerome, whose coup got Thaw out of the Sherbrooke jail, where he threatened to remain until the kings bench passed on his case in October, said he would not attend the hearing unless 1t was necessary.
 He has with him the almost sn- mentionable Thaw trial exhibits. to- gether with transcripts of Thaw's or ratic testimony at the habeas corpus proceedings in New York state. If called upon he was ready to submit these as evidence that Thaw is not sane. or, If sane, is not a man who should be allowed to enter the Do minion.
 Sheriff Hornbeck of Duchess coun- ty, who waited for more than week in vain in Sherbrooke, joined the New York party here preparatory to the seizure of Thaw on American soil.
 If present plans do not miscarry, Thaw will set foot in the United States again not far from Norton Mills, Vt, about nine miles from here.
 Thaw Broken in Spirit.
 Before Justice Hutchinson had fin iebed reading his decision turning him