The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-22

There were no court proceedings
during the forenoon, although towns
people jammed the court room.
Thaw's battery of lawyers. victorious
81 far in the strange procedure OF
kCcping their'client in jail, agreed TO
announce thisaftcrnoon what disp3-
sition they purposcd to make of their
idle writ. II they still persist in not
serving it, the immigration authori-
ties and District Attorney Congcr OF
lmtchess county planned to have tho
writ declared void and insist on
Thaws arraignmcnt at once. either
here or at Coaticook, near where he
was arrested.
Might Go to South America.
Little Importance is attached by
the immigration department to the
fact that Thaw has n through ticket
to Detroit, which fact, II has been
claimed by the defense. would enable
him to proceed on his way out Of
Canada. The fact that Thaw Is Il llin-
attic In the eyes of the country frou
which he came makes his entrance
into the dominion illegal, and gives
the immigration authorities, once
they get hold of him, power to dctain
him or Immediately ship him back
whence he came. .. ..
w. l.. ShurtlcfI. X. c., one of
1haw's lawyers. left for Ottawa last
Eight to confer with the department
oi the interior. His purpose Is be-
licvcd to he to cndcuyor to secure \
promise from the department that. If
dcportcd, Thaw might select his own
/ destination. If this move should re-
"ult successfully, 1t was declared here
l.? one Of Thaw's counsel that NJ
might 20 to South America.
The summoning Of Attorney ]. d.
, Grccnshiclds from Montreal to take
precedence over all the Thaw law.
, vcrs has served to confirm the i'm
preston that the fugitivcs relatives
80 far as possible. are taking the con-
duct of the case out of his hands.
Mr.. Grccnshiclds is described here
as one of the ahlcst lawyers In the
dominion. who rarely takes Il Grim
inal case. He Is being assisted by
Mr. ShurtlcE. Of Coaticook and Chas.
y. White and Colonel Harry Fraser,
both of Sherbrooke. 1t is said that
Thaw knew nothing Of the retain
ihE Of MIR. Grccnshiclds until tho
| Montreal lawyer arrived here.
The flaw in the proceedings
against Thaw as they have been con
Quoted in Canada up to the prcscn
time is the commitment on whicl
Thaw was lodged In Jail. In add
ton to several errors in til dcScrip
ton of Thaw's status in MatteawaI
it omits specifically to fix date fo
the hearing of the case. This mean
that Thaw could remain In jail in
definitely unless his lawyers took ad
I Tantagc Of hahcas corpus.
Public With Me-" Says Thaw.
Thaw's principal worry just no"
seems to be how much Of the synop
lis OF Jcrome's speech to the jury II
1908, which he handed out to tn
press with request that II be pub
lished, was used by the American
and Canadian papers. The synopsi
emphasized Jcromr's opinion tina
rhaw was not insane. The prison.
las tclegraphcd t" number of pa
pCrs and requested to be supplic
with a copy Of what was dispatchc
to them on this speech. All day yes
tcrday kilograms marked collect wcr
arriving from these papers for Thaw
This curiosity cost him over hun
dred dollars.
81 know that the public is wit
me in my fight to be declared sane.
he asserted with more vchcmenc
than is his custom. 81 could ne
get fair trial In New York State
every one knows that. The court
/ in New York were afraid to let III
out. And so, when learned tina
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw (Thaw alwa!
speaks OF his wife in this cercmon
Z Gus manner had returned to I'll
stage, determined to get out Of Ma
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