The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-12
Next Legal Battle Over Thaw
May Be Fought
In the Office of the Governor at
Concord, n. I'll.
PRELIMINARY HEARING PUT OFF
Each Side in Fight Is Afraid of
the Other.
Both Carefully Guard Against
Attempt to Kidnap Him.

Colebrook, Sept. 1.-THE next legal
battle in the case of H. x. Thaw will
probably be at Concord, n. H, before
Gov. Felker. The fugitive's lawyers
learning today that an eXtradition war
rant from Acting Governor Glynn of
New York was on the way to the New
Hampshire capital. decided to defer
arraigning Thaw in police court here
and to demand a hearing of the gov
ernor before he acts on the matter of
extradition. They sent a representa-
tive to Concord to confer with Cover
nor Felker and reinforced their appeal
by telegraph.
Thaw in the meantime is here in the
custody of Sheriff Drew. He was to
have been arraigned at 10 o'clock this
morning but his counsel after trying
vainly to persuade Jerome not to seize
Thaw instantly should the warrant
from New York be honored at once
deferred bringing him into court on
the ground that preliminary hearing
would bring no good results. In fact,
il might mean his liberation with in
cident possibilities of mis- seizure.
Shortly after noon it was announced
that by mutual consent of counsel, the
hearing has been put over till tomor-
row morning.
Inc nearing was OeIdyeQ Dy CONFER
ences between counsel Each side
feared to make a move on the theory
that if Thaw were released the situa
ton would resolve itself into physical
struggle. Counsel for Thaw agreed to
waive the hearing here provided coun-
sci for New York would consent to a
hearing before Governor Felker on the
matter of his signing the eXtradttion
warrant, with five days respite in or
der to give time for suing out habeas
corpus writ should the governor de-
eide that the prisoner must be sur
rendered to New York. Former Gov
ernor Stone of Pennsylvania arrived to-
day and Joined Thaw's counsel.
Rumors of Plots.
Colebrook, Sept. 12.-Harry K. Thaw
was carefully guarded by 10 of the 20
special policemen sworn in by Chief
Kelley when the time came for his ar
raignment today before Police Judge
James 7. Carr on a complaint setting
forth that he was wanted in the state
of New York ON a charge of conspira-
cy to defeat justice by escaping from
the Matteawan asylum. The scene or
the hearing was a lawyers office, the
time, as set yesterday 10 a. m.
Thaw slept we'll during the second
night of his detention in the Monad-
mock House. Four armed guards sat
lust outside his door throughout the
night. Others paced about the corrt-
doris and around the building. Talk OF
plots and counter plots to kldnap him
were still in the air today and every
time an automobile whiZZed down the
street with muff1er opened the guards
tightened their grip on their automatic
pistols The pro-Thaw Canadian con-
tingent which followed him over the
border after his sudden deportation via
Norton Mills, Vt, was somewhat de-
pleted today, although more than a
were waiting the outcome OF the
court procedure.
While residents of Colebrook are
evincing great interest in the case they
have taken no open stand either for
or against the fugitive. Shortly after
rising this morning and before going
to the barber shop to be shaved Thaw
issued a formal statement summing
up his case and lamenting the fact
that New York state was spending so
much money on him. The statement
follows:
Thaw's Statement.
Il think the people of my own state
would like to know by what warrant OF
law or common sense the money of the
people of the state of New York is be-
ing squandered like water by many
more thousands of dollars than are
available to me in these persistent and
efforts to return me to
Matteawan.
IF 1 am sane then certainly I don't
belong to Matteawan; if l were insane
then the laws of New York state itself
make it compulsory that 1 be deported
from New York to my home state.
PENNSYLVANIA. The statutes of New
York require that insane persons from
another state who are sent to Ma attea-
wan or to any other New York public
ASYLUM not charged with crime, and
as an acquitted man stand exactly in
this class. shall be reported to the state
board of deportation and promptly
sent out of the state back to the state
OF nv residence. New York is so
anxious to get rid of alleged insane
persons from another state that il pro-
vides that doctors and nurses, if need
ed be supplied to get rid of them.
1.-The United States courts have ad-
Indicated me a resident of Pittsburg,
and reaffirmed this fact within three
months.
Now why does any New York Of
ficial squander New York money to
return me?
(SigneD III. K. THAW.''
Extradition Papers on the Way.
Poughkeepsie. Sept. 12.-District At
tornev Conger of Dutchess county. left
for Albany this morning. carrying eX-
tradition papers asking for the return
of Harry K. Thaw from Colebrook. y.
H AS soon as Acting Governor Glynn
signs the papers Mr.. Conger will take
them to New Hampshire.
browns in Bath Tub.
Joplin, Sept. 12.-Moses L Cohn, of
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