Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-20
THAW PLANS A
Big LEGAL
FIGHT
HAS RETAINED THREE PROMINENT
CANADIAN LAWYERS TO DEFEND
HIM==AIS BROTHER.IN.LAW AND
HIS SISTER LEAVE FOR SHER.
BROOK.
ARE FIGHTING FOR
A POSTPONEMENT

Sherbrook, Que, Aug 20.--Harry X.
Thaw, fugitive slayer of Stanford
White, caught by New Hampshire
sheriff after his sensational escape
from Matteawan, spent the night in
the hospital ward in the Jail of this
little border town and this morning
at the urgent telegraphic demands of
his family, retained new counsel to
! fight deportation to the United States.
! George Lauder Carnegie, his brother
| in law, wired during the night that he
was hurrying here with Thaw's sister
Margareut and cautioned Thaw to de.
lay all proceedings, if possible, pend
| ing his arrival Meantime Charles d.
I White. recommended to the Thaw
family as Sherbrooke's most astute
lawyer, took charge of the case.
There now being three Canadian
lawyers retained to oppose Thaw's de-
portation to the United States indi
Gates that his preliminary arrange
ment in court will be postponed at
least until tomorrow, possibly for a
week
No announcement to this effect was
made, but Charles d. White, employed
over night to head the Thaw legal
forces, delayed throughout the fore
noon in applying for the writs Of
habeas corpus necessary to produce
Thaw in court, and at noon an i'm
,J vi Hf ff,n
for the appearance of Stanford
Whites slayer. Later in the day, it
was said. Thaw's lawyers would re-
quest that the case be put over.
Decision in this matter rested with
Superior Judge Globensky, sent down
here from Montreal to preside during
the so-called ''long vacation" of the
court He is due to return to Mon
treal tonight and should he grant ad-
journment this might mearla a recess Of
a week
This jockeying of procedure related
solely to the principal charge against
Thaw, that of being fugitive from
Other proceedings of the
authorities We're held in
abeyance pending the outcome.
Sheriff Hornbeck of Duchess coun-
ty, New York, where Matteawan is
located, reached here this afternoon
armed with the warrant issued at
charging Thaw with
with Keeper Barnum and
five other men to obtain Thaw's re-
lease The sheriff said he would bide
his time until the superior court had
aiken action.
There was no procedure in open
court Thaws lawyers, led by Chas.
D. White, submitted the petition to
he court, then announced that it had
)een granted. Meantime in the court
Dom a restless crowd craned necks
md perspired, only to depart in
,hagrin when the news spread that
rhaw would not appear and that the
egal battle would not begin until to-
morrow.
Sherbrooke, Que, Aug. 20.-Applica-
ion for writ of habeas corpus re-
luiring the presence of Harry K.
rhaw in the court here was granted
" Judge Globensky this afternoon.
rhe writ is returnable tomorrow morn.
ng.
The judge did not at once ascend
he bench. He posed reluctantly while
snapshotted him.
Thaw conferred in secret with
ounsel and barred himself to inter-
levers. Urgent kilograms from his
will nd RI OF
nd equally urgent messages to his
iwyers have advised them to play
,aiting game until an outline OF
'haw's case can be sketched. In this
egard. the postponement Of the ha.
eas corpus proceedings was regard
d as point in Thaws favor.
District Attorney Conger and Sher-
I Hornbeck of Duchess county. New
ork, were in court this afternoon.
With them were several Dominion inn
ligration officials who plan to detain
haw should he be released on the
resent commitment which charges
i'm with being a fugitive from Mat
aawan
Sheriff Hornbeck. after close scruti-
V of his Self-styled Mitchell IhOmp-
on, arrested today as one of the five
ho aided Thaw to escape from the
sylum, said that without question the
ian was Roger Thompson of New
ork
To Represent State.
Albany, n Y. Aug. 20.-Deputy At
,rney General Franklin Kennedy left
n Sherbrooke, Canada, today to rep
,sent the state in an effort to in
nee the Dominion authorities to re-
i'm Thaw to this state. Mr.. Kenne-
: will make formal request that the
lgitive be deported at once to New
ork territory
Guardian Will Not Go.
Pittsburgh Pa. Aug. 20.-"I am not
,ing to Canada declared Roger
Mara. Harry Thaw's guardian, when
: arrived at his Office today.
"Thaw is perfectly sane and with
e help of his counsel is capable of
oking after this matter himself"