Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-04
ThaW Removed
 to CoatiCOOk
NOW IN CUSTODY OF IMMIGRA.
 TON OFFICERS
RELEASED FROM JAIL
Taken by Immigration Officials After Three Minutes of Lherty-His Fate May be Decided Today.


 Kendall Thaw, pried cut of the Sher- brooke Jail on a writ of habeas corpus obtained by a coup of William TraVers Jerome enjoyed three minutes of lib- erty this afternoon and was then seized by the dominion immigration authorities and hustled by automo- bile to this little town, where tonight he paced the floor in the immigration detention room over the Grand Trunk railway station. Tomorrow morning special board of inquiry will sit in his case and by night he may be thrust across the Vermont border as an un- desirable alien. His lawyers have planned no procedure to resist extradi- ton to New York, and the belief was current tonight that before many hours Thaw would be back In the Matteawan asylum for the criminal insane, from which he escaped on Sunday, Aug. IT.
 Habeas Corpus Writ Sustained.
 The beginning of the end of Thaws refuge in Canada came with dramatic swiftness. A writ of habeas corpus sued out last Saturday at the direc- ton of Jerome with John Boudreau, chief of police of this village, as peti- tioner, was sustained at 245 o'clock this afternoon by Matthew Hutchin- son, superior fudge of the district of St. Francis, sitting in chambers at Sherbrooke. Stolid, pallid. numb Thaw sat not five feet from the judge as he read. When. in the very last para graph, the court declared him a free man, whether he desired liberty or not, Thaw seemed to crumple up on the lounge where he sat A cigar stump fell from his left hand and scattered ashes to the floor; from his right hand huttered two gay bits of ribbon Child had given him.
 immigration Officers Act.
 but he did not rise. w. K. McKeown of his counsel leaned over and batting him on the shoulder whispered Thaw raised his big staring eyes and stood up. Immigration officers in the room, headed by E. Blake Robertson, assist ant superintendent, moved near him and then Thaw began slowly to move to the door. At the threshold Robert son said simply:
 Come with us. MT. Thaw" And without a word except a hoarse good bye to the reporters, Thaw obeyed
 Five minutes later a gray roadster streaked away from the courthouse. In the back seat was Thaw. He had not even been given time to pack his sean ty belongings and voluminOuS corre- spondence in his cell, In an hour he was here in Coaticook, guarded in the detention room by two stalwart domin- ion police. None but counsel was aI- lowed to see him.
 Lawyer ShurtIeff's Statement.
 The 23 mile trip over was without special incident Thaw expressed no surprise, evidenced no grief Behind him trailed his defeated lawyers
 W. l.. Shurtleff the first to arrive, issued this statement:
 eff they have doctors all ready to pronounce ThaW insane, as I am in- formed they have. there is almost no hope of preventing his immediate de- portation. I believe if we could find a way to get the case into the courts we would have good chance to prove this tmmi grafton act unconstitutional, on the ground that it is inconsistent with the Ashburton treaty But if the authorities at Ottawa are as deter mined to send Thaw back as they seem to be, then l doubt very much if they would pay any attention to any writ of prohibition we might obtain.
 Thaw Objects to Secret Trial.
 The immigration act expressly pro- vides that no court may interfere with the findings of the board of inquiry, and l am afraid that the immigration officials will act before we have found a way to circumvent them"
 Thaw. when he was told that the in- qulry was to be held in secret wrote out this question and sent it down to the reporters:
 "Is 1t true that English law allows a secret trial. with the public excluded, when mans life or liberty is at stake, like in Turkey or Bulgaria."
 Ln6W CIilCl COuuS6l, J. IN. GTCGns shields, a Montreal millionaire. was not present when the writ was sustained today. Tonight it was said he was hurrying here to make a last desperate stand. Another eminent Thaw lawyer due to arrive was N K. Laf1amme also coterie already here was discouraged. J
 Tt looks as if they were going to railroad him, he said. Those higher up have apparently made up their minds"
 Jerome Says Nothing.
 Jerome had not a word to say. As If divining In advance that Thaw was to be forced out of the Sherbrooke jail, he preceded him by automobile and was sitting In the machine gazing down the roadway when the car bear Ing Thaw hove into sight. Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney general of New York was seated by Jerome.
 Few of the sympathetic townspeople | of SherbroOke knew that Harry Thaw, | whom they cheered last Wednesday as Nobody expected decision on the ha- beas corpus writ so soon. But rumor would not down that Judge Hutchin- son would announce his findings at 2 1 o'clock, and at that hour a silent little 1 group gathered In the corridor outside l his chambers. Bye and bye the judge | came and then, ten minutes later, l Thaw was brought in. He wore his l gray suit and a straw hat
 Judge Appeared Nervous.
 The privileged elbowed their way | into the chamber, Thaw sank | down on the lounge and after a nerve l racking wait the judge began reading. |! His voice shook as he read. his hands | trembled visibly, and repeatedly he l crossed and recrossed his feet under | the table.
 Long before he finished 1t was ap- | parent from the precedents he cited ! that he would sustain the writ. but | there was nothing to clinch this till the 1 last. Thaw's eyes did not once leave 1 the judges face. He had apparently 1 forgotten about his dead cigar and the the child gave him. and h6 did | h0t drop them till the last
 When the court reached that part or his decision where he said when | there is doubt ''eourt always inclines in favor of liberty" enc of Thaw's lawyers emitted a stif1ed laugh. The judge, whe is gray haired. past Sc and l austere, passed the interruption unno- ticed and continued reading in a trem- bling voice,
 Theory of Haheas Corpus Upset.
 ThaW'g lawyers contend that Judge has ceMpletely upEet the