Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-30
HABEAS CORPUS d
BY THAW'S FOES /
MARS HIS PLANS
Jerome Engineers Move Out.
thanking Lawyers of Mattea.
wan Fugitive in Court Fight.
WILL BE PRODUCED IN
COURT NEXT TUESDAY
Writ Obtained by Police Chief
Who Made the Arrest at
Coaticook.

SHERBROOKE, Que bee, April 3d.
Harry X, Thaw will be produced in
court here again on Tuesday morning
next, on writ of habeas corpus OBJ
tanned today In behalf of Chief Of
Police Boudreau, of Coaticook, who
arrested him after the flight from
Matteawan
Superior Judge Hutchinson granted
the writ on the application of Samuel
Jacobs, chief counsel for the New
York State interests. 1t was IN
eleventh hour move taken to defeat
Thaw's lawyers, who have succeeded
In keeping him in Jail, safe from the
immigration authorities. Those Of
the Thaw lawyers who were in town,
Charles d White and Harry Faser,
bitterly opposed the application but
Judge Hutchinson said he would
thresh the matter out in open court
at 10 a. m. Tuesday.
Thaw was ignorant of today's de-
velopments. His lawyers did not
even learn of 1t until a report of the
contemplated move sent out last
night was telegraphed back from
Montreal. His chief lawyer. X. N.
Greenshields, Immediately chartered
a special train at Montreal in the
hope of checking the proceedings.
The writ. had been issued, however.
before his arrival
Ground on Which Writ Was Granted.
Boudreau asked for the writ on the
ground that as the original captor of
Thaw he might be liable to damages
should Thaw's arrest prove illegal
w. I. Jerome, who worked out this
latest attack, is jubilant. He hopes
that the writ will be sustained and
that on Tuesday Thaw will be in the
hands of the department of immigra-
ton for deportation to Vermont
William Travers Jerome, formerly
district attorney of New York and
commander-in-chie of the New York
forces here, was up before o'clock
this morning conferring with Samuel
Jacobs, the Montreal attorney repre-
senting the State.
Jacobs Hurries Back.
1t was Mr.. Jacobs who was ruled
out of court by Superior Judge Glo-
bensky, and it was Mr., Jacobs re-
turning to Montreal last night who
was informed by telegraph ef Judge
Hutchiison's return He jumped from
the train at Magog, small station
near Sherbrooke, and, returning here
by automobile, laid his plan before
Jerome and Deputy Attorney General
Franklin Kennedy.
Mr.. Jerome would neither affirm nor
deny that Thaw was to figure in an
other habeas corpus proceeding, nor
would Mr. Jacobs discuss the matter.
Thaw's lawyers. secure in the belief
that their client would be safe in Jail
after their move of withdrawing their
own habeas corpus writ, retired ear
ly, ignorant of the reported new move
to get him in court today. Thaw him.
self, in his cell in the Sherbrooke Jail,
| knew nothing of 1t. e. Blake Robert
son, assistant superintendent of im-
migration, was returning to Montreal
with four inspectors when he saw
Mr.. Jacobs leap from the train at
Magog. The train had started again
before they learned why the lawyer
had gone, and he had to finish the
trip to Montreal.
There he turned about Immediately
and reached here after 1 o'clock this
morning Mr.. Jerome, while refusing
to discuss what move, If any, New
York State would make today, ex-
any one to apply for writ of habeas
corpus in another's behalf. and that
such action in the Thaw matter would
in his opinion be entirely legal.
Should the writ be issued and sus-
tanned the immigration authorities
could at least get their hands on the
Matteawan fugitive, and he would be
deported to Vermont. There would be-
gin the fight for his extradition from
Vermont to New York.