The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-28
THAN POPULAR
WITH THE FAIR
SEX Of CANADA
Emotional Women Rush To-
ward Slayer of White, Cry
ing, 1--WE Will Give You
Justice, Harry"
GENERAL HYSTERIA
IN THE COURTROOM
Fugitive Wins Three Victories
Over New York Authorities
and Is Safe From Mattea-
wan for Present.

SHERBROOKE, Quebec, Aug. 81
Harry K. Thaw won three victories
over the New York state authorities
today, and was locked tonight in the
Sherbrooke Jail, immune for the time
being from the Dominion immigration
authorities, after having received an
ovation from the townspeople of Sher-
brooke that would have done honor to
prince of royal blood.
So demonstrative was the scene in
the superior court wheE, at the morn
ing session, Judge Arthur Globensky
refused to allow counsel representing
New York state to be party to the
proceedings, that the court subse.
quently warned spectators that a
repetition of the cheering, chair climb
ing, handkerchief waving and general
hysteria would mean Jail sentences for
the demonstrates
Women Rush to Thaw.
Speaking from the bench at the
afternoon session, he said that never
in his experience as a member Of the
bar and of the bench had he been a
witness to fsuch a disgraceful scene"
1t was carried out in the presence
Of court attendants and four armed
Dominion police, who stood immobile
while emotional women rushed toward
10 y, @,
"Three cheers for Thaw; three
cheers for the British flag. We will
give YOU justice, Harry"
Tonight, with Thaw's term of con-
fnement indeterminate and the key
to the riddle unbound, there was gen
eral exodus of those who rushed hither
after the fugitive's sensational escape
from Matteawan.
Jerome Goes to Quebec.
William Travers Jerome, former
prosecutor of Thaw and specialist on
matters appertaining to his life, left
tonight for Quebec, accompanied by
Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney
general of New York, District Attor~
ney L. A. Conger and Sheriff Horn
beck of Dutchess county, Superintend
ent Kieb Of Matteawan, John f. Mack,
former district attorney of Dutchess
county, and with them will depart
late tonight or tomorrow sheriffs and
deputy sheriffs Of Vermont and New
Hampshire, who were ready to string
themselves along the border line and
- \,
Messrs. Jerome and Kennedy will
confer at Quebec with the attorney
general of the provinces, in the hope
that he, as the province IS chief Of
fcer OF the crown, may be able to
open the legal lock that holds Thaw in
Jail.
Three Points Won.
The three points in which Thnw's
legal skirmish were.
/. New York state was denied
the right to be party to the proceed
ings in court.
9. Counsel for the state failed in
their efforts to have Thaw arraigned
before n magistrate and the commit
ment on which he is held quashed
This would have released him to the
immigration officers.
5. Judge GlObensky. granted the
plea of Thaw's counsel for a discon-
tinuanco Of tho writ Of habeas corpus,
which might have brought about his
release today. This remedied a STRAIT
egic blunder made Inst week by
Thaw's attorneys, who apparently did
not renliZe then that in seeking their
clients release they were playing
into tho opposition IS hands.
From his cell tonight Thaw issued
the following statement:
"May I acknowledge the fair play