The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-09-05
OUT AGAIN N AGAIN
WAS EXPERIENCE OF
THAN WEDNESDAY
THREE MEhuTEs OF FREEDOM
ALL THAT WERE ALLOWED
HIM.
.MROME's COUP A WINNER
Defendant Taken From SherbrSos<e
to coaticook by immigration OaFic-
ersand Way Be Deported as an un-
desirable Citizen to vsrmout.

GEsdHu WHY DC OepoTteo aS an I'm
desirable Citizen to Vermont.
COATICOOK, Quebec, Sept. A.
Harry K. Thaw pried out OF the SHEER.
brenke jail ON writ of habeas corpus
obtained by a coup of William Trav.
ers Jerome, enjoyed three minutes of
liberty and was then seized by the
Dominion immigration authorities
land hustled by automobile to this Lit.
tile town. Tomorrow morning q spec
ial board Of inquiry will sit in his
case and by night he may be thrust
across the Vermont border as an mn.
desirable alien. 1t was generally
predicted that before many hours
that Thaw would be back In the Mat.
teawan asylum, from which he escap-
led August az.
The beginning af the end of TaAw's
refuge in Canada came with dramatic
Swiftneas. A writ of aabeas corpus
SWORN out last Saturday at the d!ree-
ton of Jes,ome, with John B0udreau.
chief of police of this village, as pc
titi0ner, was sustained this afternoon
by MattheHa Hutchinson, superior
judge of The district of st. Francis,
sitting in chambers at SherbrOoke.
Stolid, paid, numb, Thaw sat not Ave
feet from the judge as he read his de-
cisiOn. When in the very last para
graph the court declared him free
man, Thaw seemed to cr,mble IN on
the lounge where he sat. A cigar
stump fell from his left hand and
from his right hand futtered two gay
bits OF ribbon child had given him.
But he did not rise! w. s. Nc
Keown, of his counsel, leaned over,
and patting him on the shoulder, whis-
pered Thaw raised his big staring
eyes and stood up. Immigration offic-
ers moved near him and then Thaw
began slowly to move toward the
door. At the threshold, Assistant SUI
perintendent Robertson, of the immi-
grafton bureau, said simply, come
with us, Mr.. Thaw." And without a
word, except a hoarse goodbye to the
reporters, Thaw pbeyed Five min
utes later a gray roadster streaked
from the court house. In the back
seat was Thaw. He had not even
been given time to pack his scanty
belongings and volluminous cores
pondence in his CELL In an hour he
was in Coaticook, guared in the deten-
ton room by two stalwart Dominion
police. None but counsel were allow
ed to see him.
W. L. Shurtleff, the first Of Thaw's
lawyers to arrive, issued this state
ment:
IF they have doctors all ready to
pronounce Thaw insane, as ] am in
formed they have, there is almost no
hope of preventing his immediate de-
portation. | believe II we could get
this case into the courts we would
prove this immigration Get unconsti-
tutional on the grounds that it is in
consistent with the AshbIrton treaty.
But if the authorities Mt Ottawa are
as determined to send Thaw back as
they seem to be, then | doubt they
would pay any. attention to any writ
we might obtain"
Thaw, when told that the inquiry
was to be held In sec, ct, wrote out
this question and sent it down to the
reporters:
rs it true that English law allows
a secret trial, with the public exclud-
ed, when a mans life CT liberty IS at
stake, like in Turkey or Bulgaria."
Thaw's chief counsel, ]. w. Green
shields, a Montreal mollionaire, 1t
was said, is hurrying here to make a
last desperate stand. Anotner emi-
nent lawyer due to arrive was N. X.
La Flamme, also Of Montreal. Chas.
d. White, already here, was discour-
aged and pessimistic.
'1t looks as if they were going to
railroad him." he said Those high
err up have apparently made up their
minds"
Jerome had not word to say AS
If divining in advance that Thaw was
to be forced out Of the Sherbrooke
Jail, he preceded him here by auto
mobile, and was sitting in the ma
chine gazing down the roadway when
the car bearing Thaw hove into sight