The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-09-11
THAW CASE SHIFTS
T0MONTREAL COURT
Writ Of Habeas Corpus Issues
From Kings Bench.
JEROME is NOW A FUGITIVE
Special Prosecutor From New York
Jumps Ball Following His Arrest
at coatlcook on the Charge Of
Gambling.

Coaticook. Que, Sept. 6-The immi.
grafton court of inquiry that has been
investigating the entrance of Harry
X. Thaw into Canada handed down
q decision that the Matteawan fugi.
tive must be deported.
While this decision was being read
Thaw was packing up in preparation
for departure at once for Montreal
where he had been notified two OF
his lawyers secured q writ Of habeas
corpus demanding his production
forthwith before Justice Gervais Of the
Montreal superior court.
He went about his packing right
rnerrily, even after the immigration
courts verdict had been communicated
to him, for his attorneys told him
that the Gervais writ would prevent
his being Immediately chased out Of
the Dominion. RI 4.
EIated over Jerome's Arrest. q.
Another thing that added to his
pleasure in the events Of the day was
the predicament Of william Trayers
Jerome, who had been arrested on
q charge gambling and held in $500
bail Thaw chuckled frequently over
the position in which Jerome had
found himself. The former district
attorney of New York county had been
waiting in an automobile for two days
to follow Thaw over the border and
there seize him for a quick dash to
Matteawan. After he had been freed
on bail, however, the local authori.
ties declared that If they saw any in
dication of Jerome's starting away
they would hold him to prevent his
FORGETTING his bail. a..
Jerome FIees to Vermont.
The willy Jerome stole a march on
the local officials, however, and slip
ped over the Vermont border with
out any attempt being made to stop
him. He arrived at Nortons Mills,
VT, about 1885 p. M, and there stated
he expected Thaw to arrive within
an hour. When he left Coaticook he
was In total ignorance of the eleventh
hour developments that kept the in.
ternational prisoner from being de-
ported. He was probably the most
surprised man in Vermont when the
story OF the habeasp corpus writ and
Thaw's appeal we're told to him.
Thaw Ordered Deported.
The decision of the immigration Off.
Gals held that Thaw should be de-
ported on two counts:
THAT OF entering the country by
stealth.
2--That Of being an undesirable be-
cause he had been an inmate of an
asylum within five years.
Thaw's attorneys Immediately filed
notice of an appeal, which would in
itself have acted as stay without
any habeas corpus writ.
Jerome had had pretty good idea
OF what the verdict of the immigration
authorities would be, but he had left
some time before the decision was
handed down and this departure
placed him In the position of being q
bail jumper.
Thaw RidieuIes Jerome.
II Thaw had been deported it is al.
most certain that Jerome would never
have appeared in Coaticook again, as
1t would have been impossible for him
to have taken Thaw to Matteawan
and returned here in time for his
hearing before Justice of the Peace
James Mckee. When Thaw learned
Of Jerome's attempted coup he
laughed and said:
Willie jumped the fence too soon.
| wonder what they will do to him If
he comes back. certainly cannot see
how the gambler can appear here
for hearing and at the same time be
in Montreal"
Jerome himself had no hesitation
after his arrest in declaring it a
frame up" on the part OF some Thaw
agent. The gambling with which he
is charged consisted OF playing a
game OF penny ante" on a suitcase
in the automobile Of newspaperman
sent here from New York to cover
the case. There were four others in
the poker party" all newspapermen.
No charge has been preferred against