Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-08
JEROME ON SCENE
IN TIME TO FACE
GAMBLING TRIAL
Crown Prosecutor Defends,
His Assistant PrOsecutes- Ar
rested Nemesis of Thaw.

COAT1OOOK, Que. Sept 8.--WilI-
lam Travers Jerome stepped off the
train from Montreal at noon, ready
to appear In court this afternoon. on
charge of gambling, on which he
was arrested last week.
A small crowd greeted him in si-
lence He made no statement and
was taken at once to his hotel.
Samuel Jacobs, K. c., of Montreal,
chief counsel for New York State in
its fight to return Harry K. Thaw to
Matteawan, accompanied Jerome.
They alighted from the train almost
directly beneath the window of the
detention room where Thaw is held.
1t was raining and there were not
more than forty idlers at the station.
Notwithstanding the open hostility
that has been shown Jerome here no
threat was heard today
The crowd dispersed quickly and
drifted toward the Court House.
where the hearing was to be. held, at
A o'clock. 1t was predicted that the
charge would be dismissed on tech
nieality, in that 1t specified that
Jerome played cards in "a railroad
station" when, as matter of fact,
he was more than fifty feet from the
station.
Harry K. Thaw was tenn. temporar-
lily forgotten by the townspeople of
Coaticook today, and all paths led
to the red brick court house where
Jerome had promised to appear
this afternoon for preliminary
hearing on a charge of gambling.
He was released last week under
$500 bail, and with his departure for
Montreal to make arrangements to
oppose the habeas corpus writ on
which Thaw is to be arraigned next
Monday, many of those here antagon-
s istic to him with his mission, re-
marked that jerome has jumped his
bail He'll never show his face in
siderable surprise there that they
heard Jerome's counsel had put Ids
case forward today.
James Mckee, the aged justice OF
the peace, who signed the warrant
for Jeromes arrest and ffayed him
in court when Jerome did not appear
at the first hearing, had no part in
today's proceedings. He was super
seeded by district magistrate, H. w.
Mulvena, of Sherbrooke. Mulvena
agreed yesterday to come here and
preside.
A. c. Hanson. joint crown prose-
cutor for the district, was in charge
of the prosecution, while Jacon Nicol,
of Sherbrooke, crown prosecutor of
the district, appeared for the defense.
This strange state. of. affairs. devel-
oped out of. Nicops aiding the New
York forces in getting Thaw out of
the Sherbrooke jail. He has since
been identified with antiThaw inter-
ests and after denouncing Jerome
arrest as an outrage, volunteered to
. dnf afrainPd
lations between him and his asso-
ciate. Hanson. but the latter had no
alternative but to prosecute.
Milford Aldrich, the mill hand COM
3 plainant against Jerome, got leave of
+ absence for this afternoon, so that
s he could be in court. He said:
II got in little trouble one time
. for playing cards IN New Hamp-
shire" he confessed, "and this will
: sort of even things up
S Thaw evinced great interest in the
Jerome hearing, but could get little
information from his guards. No one
except his lawyers was allowed I'd
see him and most of them are in Nom
treal 1t was still uncertain today
! when Thaw would be removed there,
4 OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. S.-Domin-
ion officials here foresee delay of
possibly two years before final de-
cision in the Thaw case,
The litigation. in their opinion, UNI
doubtedly will be carried through
the Dominion courts to the Privy
Council in England, where the final
verdict Will be written. Until this
verdict is given the immigration OFF,
4. cials believe. the courts will not per-
NIT the deportation of. Thaw and he
Z will remain on Canadian soil.