The San Francisco call., 1913-08-28
FUGITIVE WINS HIS
WAY BACK TO JAIL
Following the Defeat of
Matteawan, Jerome and
Associates Hurry to Que
bee to Find Some Way
to Unlock Sherbrooke's
Sheltering and Hospit-
able Jail-Harry Joyful

of1E4RftttO1fAEs tlIepeCs Aug. zf.--
Harry X. Thaw won three victories
over the New York state authorities
today. and was locked tonight in the
sherbrooke jail. Immune for the time
being from the. Dominion immigration
authorities after having received an
ovation from the eownspeople of sher-
brooke that would have done honor to
a prince of royal blood.
SO demonstrative was the scene in
the superior court when. at the morn
ing session. Judge Arthur GIobensky
refused to allow counsel representing
New York state TO be party to the
proceedings that the court subsequent
" warned spectators that a repetition
of the cheering, chair climbing. hand
kerchief waving and general hysteria
would mean jail sentences for the
demonstrants.
Speaking from the bench at the aft
ernoon session he said that never IN
his experience as a member OF the bar
and OF the bench had ne been a wit
ness to such a disgracefuI scene"
1t was carried out in the presence OF
court attendants and four armed do
minion police, who stood immobile
while emotional women rushed toward
Thaw. crying:
WOMEN CHEER THAw
Three cheers for Thaw; three
cheers for the British flag. We VIII
give you justice. Harry"
Tonight. with Thaw's term of con-
fnement indeterminate and the key to
the riddle unbound. there was a gen.
eraI exodus of those who rushed
hither after the fugitive's sensational
escape from Matteawan. William
Travers Jerome, former prosecutor Of
Thaw and specialist on matters ap
pertaining to his life, left tonight for
Quebec. accompanied by Franklin
kennedy, deputy attorney general OF
New York; District Attorney E. A.
Conger and Sheriff Hornbeck of
Dutchess county; Superintendent
Kieb of Matteawan. John E. Mack.
former district attorney of Duchess
county; and with them will depart
late tonight or tomorrow sheriffs and
deputy sherins of Vermont and New
Hampshire, who are ready to string
themselves along the border line and
seize Thaw in the event of his de-
portation.
Jerome and Kennedy will confer at
Quebec with the attorney general of
the province in the hope that he. as
the PROVINCES chief officer Of the
crown. may be able to open the legal
lock that holds Thaw in Jail
WINS ON THREE POINTS
The three points IN which Thaw's
lawyers were successful in the first
legal skirmish were:
New York state was denied the
right to be party to the proceedings
IN court
2. Counsel for the state failed In
their efforts to have Thaw arraigned
before a magistrate and the commit
ment on which he is held quashed-
This would have released him to the
immigration officers.
3.
Of Thaw's counsel for a discontinu-
anca Of the writ of habeas corpus.
which might have brought about his
release today. This remedied strate-
e,c blunder made last week by Thaw's
attorneys, who apparently did not
realize then that in seeking their
clients release they were playing into
the opposition's hands.
From his cell tonight Thaw issued
the following statement
THAw ISSUES STATEMENT
MAY + acknowledge the fair play
accorded by every one since my ar
rival in Canada. and express my graft
tude for the sympathy shown by Ca
madam people in my present strug-
gle TO regain my liberty. and to thank,
Especially all the Canadians that I
have come In contact with person
ally7"
whether this meant that Thaw would
remain in jail until some high Do
rninion oficiaI interfered, or whether
he could demand trial by jury at the
kings bench next October
Thaw. flushed and happy, returned
to the Hilltop jail. while the crowds
house when he emerged, kept up
their plaudits as he passed. A pris-
oner by his own election he had
STAYED off the first move to return
him to the asylum, where for FIVE
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