The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-21
THAW IN NO HURRY.
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! by the defense would enable him To
/ proceed on his way out OF canada
The fact that Thaw is lunatic in
the eyes of the country from which he
came makes his entrance in the
/ dominion illegal and gives the imni-
grafton authorities, once they get holo
of him, power to detain him or 1mme-
diately ship him back from whence
/ he came.
w. L. Shurtleff, kings counsel, one
! of Thaw's lawyers left for Ottawa last
night to confer with the department
of the interior. His purpose is be-
lieved to be to endeavor to obtain a
promise from the department that II
deported Thaw might select his own
destination. If this move should re
suit successfully it was declared this
morning by one of ThaW's counsel that
he might go to South America.
Standing Room Only.
Charles D. White of Sherbrooke, who
was Thaw's chief lawyer until Green
! shields came, said today:
The delay in taking advantage or
the writ of habeas corpus is to get bet
ter acquainted with the case. 1t may
be that we will wait week There
is a corporaFs guard of us lawyers on
the case and we have to move slowly
in order not to step on one another
/ feet"
AS 10 O'Clock came around a crowd,
most of them well dressed women
gathered in the court room. They had
not heard that the proceedings were
Off for the day and were apparently
in for long disappointing wait. Tnere
was standing room only at 1o;5O.
Groups of girls gathered on the street
corners in the vicinity of the Jail; 9TH
ers sat on the green court house lawn
Thaw's principal worry just now
seems to be how much of the Synop-
sis of Jerome's speech to the jury IN
1908 which he handed out to the press
hn
was used by the American and Cana
dian papers. The synopsis emphasized
Jerome'S opinion that ThaW was not
insane The prisoner teleSraphed to
a number of papers and requested TO
be supplied with copy or what was
dispatched to them on this speech. An
day yesterday kilograms marked col
lect were arriving from these papers
for Thaw This curiosity cost him over
hundred dollars.
Went i'm From Vermont.
Cavendish, VT, Aug. 21.-1t appears
today that Harry K. Thaw entereH
Canada from Vermont and not directly
posed. The village of Beecher FANS
where he left the train is on the YER
mont side of the boundary line be-
tween the states. :
1t is in the town of Canaan, VT.
This is believed by state officials to
De the OASIS IOr the report AIoIIl oioI
brooke, last night that Thaw would
probably be turned over to the auth
critics of this state
Vermont Does Not Want Him.
Beecher Falls is in the extreme
northeast of the state and very close
to the Canadian line. From this vii
lage Thaw drove by team and he
probably did not again enter New
Hampshire though he might easily
have done so by taking roundabout
route. This point will be definitely
determined and the Canadian auth
critics informed accordingly.
Governor Allen M Fletcher at his
home here today had before him
statement by Attorney General Rufus
E. Brown in which the attorney gen.
eral declared that he considered Thaw
an undesirable and dangerous person
and he would advise the surrender of
the fugitive to the police of New York
state.
Concerning the attitude of the stare
in the matter of Thaw's extradition,"
said Mr.. Brown, IF it was asked for,
1 can only say that personally I would
surrender Thaw to the state of New
York. / consider him not only an un-
desirable, but a dangerous person.
The attorney general added he
thought 1t probable that Canada would
cooperate with the authorities of
New York and return the prisoner di-
want Thaw within it's limits" said
Mr.. Brown.
VIII Do Their Best.
Albany, Aug. 21.-Acting Governor
Glynn was advised over the telephone
by the immigration authorities at OF
tawa this afternoon that they would
use every effort in their power t
assist in having Harry K. Thaw re-
turned to New York state.
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