Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-08-27
TO DEP0RT THAW
BY VERMONT LINE
Hint He viii Be Rushed Across
Border Today.
BRIEF FREEDOM is EXPECTED
Chauffeur Believed to Have Aided Es-
cape Arrested While in Court
Best Legal Talent of Dominion
is Reticent.

Sherbrooke, Que, Aug 22.-Harry
K Thaw will be sent across the
American border in the state of Yer
mont if events in the case of the fu
gitive from Matteawan shape them
selves as Canadian officials in close
touch with the proceedings anticipate.
This was the semi-official intimation
here Wednesday as Thaw awaits
hearing on the habeas corpus writ
his counsel secured
Official opinion inclines to the belief
that under the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings Thaw will be declared free
man. Immediately Thaw is released
by the court, it is understood, two I'M
migration inspectors will take him
into custody as an undesirable under
the immigration act and rush the fu-
gitive to Coaticook, near where he
was arrested
The point of deportation indicated
will be Island Pond, VT, the nearest
border station on the Grand Trunk,
about twenty miles south of Coat1-
cook.
Thaw paced his cell while his coun-
sci succeeded in having his applica-
ton for writ of habeas corpus
granted and set for argument today.
Meanwhile friends improved the OPP
portunity to engage the best legal tai
ent available for Thaw.
Charles D. White, leading barrister
of the province, had been retained by
%oIo II 7 "a
Thaw's brother-in-law.
Announcement was made that J. N.
Greenshields, X c., of Montreal, con-
sidered one of the most able criminal
lawyers in Canada, had been retained
to lead the Thaw legal talent Mr.
Greenshields said he did not expect
any difficulty in freeing him under the
commitment on which he is held at
present.
From among the idlers in the court
room immigration officers arrested
man giving the name of mitchell
Thompson" who was identified as one
of the two men with Thaw when ne
was arrested near Coaticook Al
though he denied that he had aided
Thaw In crossing the border, main
tanning that he had met the fugitive
by chance, he was held In $ooo pan
for hearing Friday.
Thaw indicated by many ways that
he is beginning to feel acutely the
strain of his captivity and the doubt
as to the outcome For several hours
he paced the floor, sometimes stop
ping and stamping irritably, at other
times quickening his walk around the
hospital ward almost to run.
When seen by reporters he was sit
ting on his cot with his head buried
in his hands.
Harry K. Thaw, after two days OF
madcap freedom is in prison again.
He made more than 500 miles in yari-
Gus ways by automobile, train, farm
ers' wagons and walking through star
lit woods until he reached the little
French village Of ST. Mermenegilde de
Garford, just over the boundry from
New Hampshire.
At Coaticook, where he was lodged
In the lookup Immediately AFTER MS
arrest Thaw engaged local lawyer.
Two men were arrested with ThaW,
but liberated later at Coaticook.
He escaped from the state hospital
for the criminal insane here when the
gate was opened to admit mllkman
Sunday morning, darling into a power
full machine that stood waiting out
side and soon reached Connecticut,
30 miles away.