Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-06
ThaW Blocks
 Deportation
MUST REMAIN IN CANADA UNTIL
 SEPTEMBER IS
A RESTRAINING ORDER
His Lawyers Obtain One, Preventing Action by Immigration Authorities Until His Appeal Has Been Heard.

Coaticook, Que. Sept. 5.-Harry K. ThaW will be produced before the full King s bench, appeal side, at Montreal on the morning of Sept. 15
 MeantIme he may be detained here, or at Sherbrooke, or taken to Montreal on a moments notice. at the discretion or the immigration authorities Two of hls counsel. J. N. GreenshIetds and N K. LaFlamme, obtained double Wrlt-hAoeas corpus and prohibition at Montreal today and whirled in q special train into Coaticook, where not long before the immigration authorft- ties had ordered ThaW's deportation from the Dominion
 CroWd Assemblies to Cheer Thaw
 counsel for ThaW who had remained in Coaticook had announced that inc WfIt was returnable forthwith and 8 special train was made up to take the prisoner to Montreal tonight A great crowd collected about the station where ThaW was confined, and it was not until o'clock that it became known that he might remain here sev- eral days because the writ is not re- turnable until Sept. 15
 There were cheers when the writ arrived, and more cheers whenever Thaw's face appeared at the window of the detention room When the spe- cial train pulled out for Montreal with out Thaw aboard there were cries of disappointment, then more cheering when the news got abroad that for Thaw the new move meant ten days delay.
 Jerome Arrested for Gambling.
 Not only by the writ secured in Montreal but by the action of his at torneys on appeal did Thaw today block his deportation. Tn addition he had the pleasureable knowledge that his old enemy, William Travers Jer- ome, had been arrested. charged with gambling.
 A Day of Sensations.
 ''Tf ever a little town produced "sen. sations,' Coattcook did today. First came Jerome's arrest and release on bail on charge that he had played poker yesterday on railroad property with some newspaper men. Then came word that Thaw's lawyers had ob- tained in Montreal writ variovsIy described here as one of habeas cor pus prohibition and restraint, demand ing Thaw's production in court there forthwith. Meantime the special board of inquiry ordered Thaw's deportation to Vermont under two classes of the immigration act, namely, that he had entered Canada by stealth and had within five years been an inmate of an institution for the insane
 Thaw Lawyers Charter Special Train.
 From both these decisions Ths.w's ld Wy6AS dppe2leQ. then cIDChed mat ters with notice by telegraph that the writ had been granted in Montreal
 The immigration officers, headed by E, Blake Robertson, were inclined to ignore any court order coming over the wire, but they were powerless in the matter of the appeals, and Thaw remained in the detention room over the Grand Trunk railway station. Fin ally the Thaw lawyers in Montreal J, N. Greenshields and N, K La F1amne. chartered a special train and began race here with the writ itself, After serving it this evening" they pur- posed to take their client at once to Montreal on another special.
 Citizen Causes Jeron1e's Arrest. JeraIne's arrest was due to two ] causes and was not prompted in any way by the ThaE lawyers One and all ef them expressed indignation at the move and said they were ready to aid him, What the arrest really sig nified was the state of public mind here as decidedly BPe-Thaw and more de- 1 eidedlY aRti-JePame, Tn the second ! place theFe ts split in the town eauB- ] eil eveF Chief of Police John Bou- dreau, FthaW's original oapteP and sub i sedHeBt petitioner fer the. writ of 1 habeas corpus which forced Thaw eut 1 of jail at SheFbFooke into the hands
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