The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-08-22


authorities received word tonight that
the district attorney of Duchess coun-
ty in which Matteawan is located, was
on his way here prepared to swear to
warrant charging Thaw with brib-
ery-an extraditabIe offense-if neces-
sary
On His Way.
= In his own defense Thaw claims he
was merely passing through Canada
on his way to Detroit when his pas
sage was interrupted by his arrest. He
exhibited what he claimed to be trans
portation to Detroit in support Of this
claim, and cited the case of Jack
Johnson to bear out his contention
that he can not be sent back to the
United States by Canadian authorities
so lore as he simply was passing
through the country and intends to go
beyond is Dor iers.
Distric* ATTORNEY Conger of Duchess
county, n y. it is understooded here,
wants Thaw ordered aeported AMI re-
turned to the United States over that
part of the international line touched
I by the State of New York. Thaw came
into the Dominion from New Hamp-
shire, however, and if custom is fol-
! lowed, he would go back to New
Hampshire.
The Canadian immigration depart
ment to Ottewa wired the chief of
police here this afternoon to hold
Thaw under the immigration act, in
dicating that steps would be taken
to deporr him. This theory was made
almost a certainty by the informa-
ton that the department had sent two
inspectors to Sherbrooke with instruc
tions to watch the case and institute
proceedings to deport Thaw.
At Coaticock, where he was lodged
in the lookup Immediately after els
arrest, Thaw engaged a local lawyer.
He was arraigned before Mr.. Dupuis,
justice of the peace. The justice read
to him an Indictment charging him
with having unlawfully escaped from
Matteawan and without permitting a
plea remanded him to Jail at Sher-
brooke for a hearing tomorrow
Two With Him.
Two men were arrested with Thaw
but liberated later at Coaticock They
are believed to be confederates WHO
aided Thaw in mis- escape. The two
men refused to give their names or
say nothing about themselves. They
followed Thaw here from Coaticook
and remained in town.
w. L. Shurtleff, the Coaticook law
yer retained by ThaW, denounced the
hearing before Justice Dupuis as
unfair and said he would apply
tomorrow for writ of habeas corpus
for Thaw prior to the hearing before
the extradition commissioners. Should
the writ be refused, Mr. Sheriff said
he would seek an appeal.
There is every indication that Taaw
intends TO wage bitter fight against
extradition, deportation or both.
From his cell in the county jail
tonight he sent out to the newspaper
men statement under this caption,
typewriter in capitals.
"No one has contended that for two
years, nearly, that Thaw has been in
the Tombs he mas been insane. There
is no evidence of delusion in the
slightest degree on his part. Is 1t
anything crazy to take a pistol to de-
fend yourself against q man who calls
Won a. and threatens to Kill
you before morning?'
The statement itself was printed
synopsis of District Attorney Jerome's
speech-or purported to be such--to
the jury at Thaw's second trial.
After Thaw had spent some hours
in his cell and grumbled bit at his
poor quarters he was removed to the
hospital, where the accommodations
are better 1t was at his lawyers sug-
gestion that he consented to see re-
porters.
Where did you intend to go after
you left Matteawan?' he was asked.
81 may have been going home" he
replied quickly and finally.
No amount of questioning could in
duce him to modify this declaration,
nor could the interviewers persuade
him to tell where he had been or
what he had done since leaving
Matteawan. Courteously but firmly He
declined to answer all questions even
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