The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-02
JEROME BARRED
FROM ATTENDING
THAN HEARING
Court Announces Habeas
] Corpus Proceedings To-
/ day Will Be Secret.
OUTBREAK CAUSE OF
THE COURTS ORDER
Proceedings Are Expected
TO Be Brief As Wagers
Are Two To One That
The Writ Will Not Be
Upheld Crowds Express
Sympathy Tor Stanford
Whites SLAYER.
BY AssolcIATED PREss

Sherbrooke, quebec, Sept. 1.--Judze
Hutchinson announced tonight that the
habeas corpus proceedings tomorrow ii,
Harry Tfaws case will be private.
Not even William Travers jerome.
chief of New York's lawyers seeking
70 return Thaw to Matteawan. will be
allowed ir the chambers.
There was d big crowd in Sher-
brooke today and nearly ali were feel
ing sympathy for Thaw Judge Hutch
inson decided. in view OF the outbreak
last week, that the wisest course would
be to- exclude the public from the
hearing. Reporters are also barred
Thaw will be driven from the jail in
= closed carriage to the court house
The proceedings in the court are ex-
pected to be brief
Wagers tonight are two to ore that
the writ would not be upheld Threat
4 ening letters are being received by
4kJerome and private detectives watch
Ethe attorney constantly. Thaw sent
aEchecks for one hundred dollars today
to the Protestant and Catholic booths
1T the Sherbroolte fair
LARGE N0MsER VISITORS.
It Is estimated that 10000 persons
besides Sherbrooke's normal popuIa-
ton of 10000 will be in town this
will be on hand four separate squads
of police
Thaw's lawyers went forward today
with their plans for preventing his re-
lease on the wrft of habeas corpus
II the writ is sustained there will be
q dramatic scene in the court room
the instant Thaw is a free man. e.
Blake Robertson, acting for the irnnf-
grafton department. will step forward,
tap him on the shoulder and announce
IT arrest you in the name of the king"
Secure for one day at least from any
sudden Judicial action against him,
this being legal holiday, Thaw spent
the forenoon with his stenographer at
,tending to his yoluminous mail His
counsel discussed their plans for ap-
peal in the event OF the writ being sus-
tained They were not sure this after
noon that they had any precedent for
such action An appeal against writ
of habeas corpus would in a sense de-
stroy the efficacy. of the writ and the
rights of q citizen, guaranteed years
ago under the magma charta. 1t would
mean that hereafter prosecutor could
appeal from a sustained writ and stay
proceedings after court had ruled
that a prisoner was detained illegally.
LAWYERS ARE ANXIOUS.
HdFFy 1naW lawyers showed palm |
ly today the anxiety with which they |
look forward to ttomorrows court pro-
ceedings. The decision of Superior |
Judge Matthew Hutchinson tomorrow |
on the right of John Brodreau chief /
of police OF Coaticook, to demand /
freedom for Thaw. whom Brodreau ar |
rested two weeks ago, viii determine /
whether there shall be set in motion at /
once the machinery looking to Thaw's /
deportation and subsequent extradition /
from q border state, or whether he /
shall be remanded to the Sherbrooke |
jail until October
II Judge Hutchinson sustains the /
writ Of habeas corpus which was OBJ
tanned for Brodreau by counsel acting
for the state of New York, Thaw i'm
nmediately may be turned over to the
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