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THAW'S SLAWYERS1
WIN A POINT
Get Writ to Make Canada Show
Reasons For Detention.
SAY He is HELD ILLEGALLY
Great ckowds, Friendly to Fugitive.
Jam the Streets and Shout For
Him.

Great cskowds, Friendly to Fugitive.
Jam the Streets and Shout For
Him.
Sherbrooke, Que, Aug. 21.-Applica-
ton for writ of habeas corpus re-
quiring the presence of Harry K.
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, who.
escaped from Matteawan, in the SUI,
perior court at Sherbrooke, was grant
ed by Judge Globensky.
There was no procedure in open
court. Thaw's lawyers, led by Charles
D. White, submitted the petition to the
court in private, which then announced
that it had been granted. They con-
tended that he has been detained ille-
gally and that through habeas corpus
proceedings he should be set free at
once.
Meantime in the court room rest
less crowd craned necks and perspir-
ed, only to depart in chagrin when the
news spread that Thaw would not ap-
pear.
This move, regarded at first as q
formality to bring Thaw into court
after his arrest as a fugitive from Mat
teawan, was subsequently explained
by his counsel as being more signif-
cant.
Sheriff Hornbeck, of Dutchess coun-
ty, n. Y, where Matteawan is located,
reached SherbrOoke, armed with the
warrant issued in Poughkeepsie. charg-
N Thau with nirino with his
keeper, Barnum, and five other men to
obtain Thaws release. The sheriff
said he would bide his time until the
court had taken action.
A man, giving the name Of Mitchell
Thompson" and believed to be the
Roger Thompson implicated in Harry
Thaw's: escape, was arrested while
lettering about the court house. He
was taken into custody by Dominion
immigration officers. He is described
as one Of the two men with Thaw
when he was arrested near CoaticOOk.
, The presence in Sherbrooke Of the
most spectacular and sesational pris-
oner in the world made it gala occa-
sion. Not one of the provincial fairs
which are being held throughout east
ern Canada at this time could vie with
ThaM as an attract ction- s. 4 "A
Great crowds came into Sherhrooke |
from the surrounding country. Fami
lies gathered about the Jail, hoping to |
get glimpse of the notorious prfs-
Sner. if he was taken to the court |
house Some came a distance of 400 |
miles to see Thaw, The street on
which the Jail is located was jammed. |
This attention tickled Harry Thaw i'm
mensely.
Sentiment in Sherbrooke is distinct
ly in Thaw's favor. A great crowd |
which greeted him at the station when |
he arrived from Coaticook shouted: |
Let him go! Set him free, He hasn't |
done anything to US; Give him a |
chance!" There were, by count. |
eighteen women in the court room. !
Fhey were well dressed, we'll manner
ed and quiet.
The question of insanity was not /!
embodied in the commitment wAieh |
brings Thaw before the immigration |
authorities. He is held merely as a
fugitive from the "penitentiary at Matt
teawan," where he was confined on g
criminal charge" for life.
ThaW himself was quick to see the |
enanee for fighting deportation upon !
such grounds, for at Matteawan he
was charged with nothing, being held
as a lunatic acquitted of the white
murder" Along such lines twas ex-
pected his lawyers would seek to bar
to New York state.
The immigration officials, it was
said, were aware of this loop hole IN
the commitment, and We're considering
the advisability of changing the
charge, However, should they deport |
him simply as an undesirable alien-a
lunatic-it might mean his entering |
the United States through some state
other than New York, and this would
invoke protracted extradition proceed
ings within that state, the outcome Of
which would be doubtful.