Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-08-20
TIME FOR CASE TO BE sKETcHED
AND CONDITIONS TO BE 9TUD-
led PRIMAL NEED or STAN
FORD WHITES SLAYER
EAGER CROWD DISAPPOINTED
MORBID INTEREST DRAWS MANY
TO COURT ROOM BUT PRINcl-
PAL FIGURE FAILS TO APPEAR
ON THE SCENE

sherbrooke, Quebec. Aug, 2O.-Ap-
plieation for a writ Of habeas corpus
requiring the presence OF Harry K.
Thaw in the court here was granted
by Judge Globensky this afternoon.
The. writ is returnable tomorrow
morning.
There was no procedure In open
court. Thaw's lawyers, led by Charles
D, White. submitted the petition to
the court. then announced that it had
been granted.
Meantime in the court room rest
less crowd craned necks and perspir-
ed, only to depart in chagrin when
the news spread that Thaw would
not appear and that the legal battle
would not begin until tomorrow.
The Judge did not once ascend the
bench. He posed reluctantly while
photographers snapped him. Thaw
conferred in secret with counsel and.
barred h1nassls q interviews. UrgaaA
kilograms from his family have warn
ell him to keep still. Equally urgent
messages to his lawyers have advised
them to play waiting game until an
outline Of Thaw's case can be sketch
ed In this regard the postponement
of the habeas proceedings was regard
ed as apoint in Thaw's favor.
District Attorney Conger and sher-
if Hornbeck Of Duchess county. New
York, were in court this afternoon.
With them was several dominion inn
migration officials who plan to detain
Thaw should he be released on the
present commitment which charges
him with being fugitive from Mat
teawan.
Sheriff Hornbeck, after close scrut-
my Of the self-styled Mitchell Thomp-
son, arrested today as one Of the five
who aided Thaw to escape from the
asylum, said that without question the
man was Roger Thompson Of New
York city.
Harry K. Thaw fugitive slayer OF
Stanford White. caught by q New
Hampshire sheriff after his sensation
al escape from Matteawan, spent the
night in the hospital ward IN the jail
OF this little border town and this
morning at the urgent telegraphic de-
mands Of his family retained new coun-
sci to fight deportation to the United
States
/ George Lauder Carnegie, his broth
er-in-law, wired during the night that
The was hurrying here with Thaw's sis
Ter, Margaret, and cautioned Thaw to
delay all proceedings. if possible. pend
ing his arrival Meantime Charles D.
White recommended to the Thaw fam
lily as sherbrook's most astute laws
yer, took charge Of the case.
/ No announcement to this effecs
was made. but Charles D. White, en-
ployed over night to head the Thaw
Illegal forces, delayed throughout the
forenoon In applying for the writ OF
habeas corpus necessary to produce
Thaw in court and at noon an impa-
tient crowd had wearied OF waiting
for the appearance Of Stanford
Whites slayer Later in the day It
was said Thaw's lawyers would re-
quire that the case be put over De.
cision in this matter rested with su-
perior Judge GIobensky. sent here
from Montreal to preside during the
so-called long vacation OF the court.
He IS due to return to Montreal to.
night ana should be grant adjourn
ment this might mean recess oa
a week.
This iockeying Of the procedure e.
: lated solely to the charee again