The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-09-04
fHAW CASE BEFORE
TWO DOCTORS At
COATICOOk
Doctors Will Consider Questions
OF Sanity
is STILL IN CANADA
Il Doctors Declare Him Insane He
viii Be Sent Across Line Into
Vermont.

Coatcook, p. O., Sept 4-Harry
Thaw was arraigned before the i'm
migration officials here today and
the case was practically turned over
by them to Drs. Burd and Beauchamp
who will consider the question of his
sanity
If the physicians OF the immlgra-
ton board fluid him insane he will be
at once deported to Vermont where
New Works fight to secure posses
sion of the prisoner will be renewed.
Before The immigration board here
today Thaw stated that he was on
his way to Pittsburg when arrested
al ST. Hermingarde near here. III
order TO not 80 through New YORK.
state he planned 10 so to Detroit
and from there 10 l'ittsburg.
one OF his attorneys is said to
have gone to Montreal TO secure a
new writ of habeas corpus on the
ground that he is illegally detained
on his way through the Dominion.
Sherbrooke, p. O., Sept. Harry Ken
dali Thaw. pried out of the Sher-
brooke Jail on n writ of habeas cor
pus obtained by a coup of William
Trayers. enjoyed three minutes OF lib
erty yesterday afternoon and was then
seized by the Dominion immigration
authorities and hustled by automobile
to Coaucook, F. G., where last night
he paced the floor i'm the immigration
detention room over the Grand Trunk
railway station.
The beginning Of the eml OF ThawF
refuge in Canada came with dramatic
sWiitness. A writ Of habeas corpus,
sued out last Saturday at the diree-
ticn Of Jerome with John Boudreau,
chef Of police of Coaticook. as petit
TONER was sustained NJ 2.45 o'clock
yesterday afternoon by Matthew
Hutchinson, superior judge Ct the dis
trico OF st. Francis, sitting in cham
bers n Sherbrooke. StOlid pdllid,
numb, Thaw sat not five fee, from the
Judge as he read When, In the very
last paragraph. the court declared him
q free man. whether he desired iiber-
~ or not Thaw seemed TO crunpie up
on the lounge where he SAT 4 cigar
stump fell from his LEFT hand and
scattered ashes ON the floor; from his
right hand futtcred two gay bits Of
ribbon a child had given him.
But he did not rise. w. X. Nc
KcoWn Of his counsel leaned over and
patlmg him on the shoulder whisper
cd 1haw raised his big staring eyes
and stood NJ. immigration officers in
the room, headed by +. Blage Rober,-
son, assistant superintendent. moved
near him and then Thaw began slow
~ TO move TO the door. A the TIRES
hold Robertson said simply: Come
with MS, Mr.. Thaw' aud without
wCrd. except huarse g0od-by TO he
reporters Thaw obeyed.
Five minutes later gray roadster
stroaked away from the rt-house
I'm the back seat was Thdw. lie had
not even been given time 10 pick his
scanty belongings and voluminOus cor
res pundence in his cell I'm an hour he
was in CoaticOk, guarded in the detcn-
ton room by two stalWart Dominion
police. None but counsel was allowed
to see him The 23-milc trip over was
without special incident Thaw ex-
pressed no surprise. evidenced no
grief. Behind him trailed his defeat
ed lawyers.
". J. Shurtleff. the first to arrive, is
sued this statement III ,hey have
doctors all ready 10 pronounce Thaw
insane. as am informed they have,
there Us almost no hope of preventing
his immediate deportation | believe
if we could find way TO get the case
into the courts we would have a good
chance to prove this immigration act
unconstitutional, on the Ashburton
treaty. Bur if the authorities at Of
tawa are as they seem to be. then I
doubt very much IL they would pay any
attention OF any writ OF prohibition we
might obtain. The immigration act ex
prcseiy provides that no court may
interfere with the findings of the
board Of inquiry. and I am afraid that
the immigration officials viii act be-
fore we have found a way To circum-
vent them
Thaw. when he was told that The in
Quiry was TO be held in secret. wrote
ont this question and sen, /, down TO
the reporters: rs it true that English
law allows a secret trial with the pub
lie excluded. when q mans life or lib
erty Is at stake. like in Turkey or Bul-
garia?-
Thaws chief counsel. ]. y. Green
shields. q Montreal millionaire. was
not present when the writ was sus-
tanned yesterday. Last night "a was
said he was hurrying 10 Coaiicook TO
make a last desperate stand. Another
eminent Thaw lawyer due to arrive
was ~ X. I.afamme. also cf Montreal
Charles ID. White Of the coterie az
ready in Coaiicook was discouraged.
III looks as if they were going 20 rail-