The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-22
Says He Has Asked Pitts.
burg Friend to Enlist
Ex-Gov. Stones Aid
AND HAVE HIM TAKE
1T UP WITH BRYAN
Precautionary Measure TAX
en- to Guard ThaW at
Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, +. e., Aug. 22.-The hear
| ing in the case of the self-styled Mitch
ell" Thompson, arrested by the immigra.
tion authorities on the charge of aiding
the lunatic, Harry X. Thaw, in crossing
the Canadian frontier, was postponed
to-day until next Friday.
Thompson was arragned before Judge
Mulvina shortly after 10 o'clock and the
immigration authorities asked that the
case be put over, pending the arrival OF
documents from Matteawan necessary
in the case. A Thaw lawyer appeared
for Thompson, who is alleged to be Rog-
er Thompson, the man who helped Thaw
to escape.
Thaw appeared this morning. He had
spent restless night and he ate no
breakfast. Thaw broke away from his
lawyers restraint last night long enough
to send telegram to friend in Pitts
bury saying that he tThawl had tele-
graphed through a third party to ex-
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania, ask
ing him to appeal to Secretary of State
Bryan in Thaw's behalf and that he was
the victim of some underhanded influ-
ence exercised to prevent him from go
ing TO his own home.
The governor of the Sherbrooke jail
laughed to-day when asked if special
guards had been detailed to watch Thaw.
He denied that this was true, but it Is
understood here that the precautionary
measure has been taken.
Thaw has been advised by certain of
his counsel, it was learned to-day, to
buy property in Canada and take steps
to become naturaized as British sun
iect. This, it is held, would prevent
deportation.
Thaw Prefers Vermont.
Sherbrooke, r. O., Aug. 22.--Barring
unforeseen developments, Harry X. Thaw
will remain in the Sherbrooke jail until
Wednesday of next week when he will
be arraigned in the superior court on
writ of habeas corpus. Between now
and that time his battery of Canadian
lawyers hope to perfect plans not to
thwart deportation but to submit to it
gracefully 10 point selected by Thaw.
All of them profess to believe that
the minister OF the interior will accede
to the request that Thaw be permitted
to nominate his destination in return
for submitting without further protest
to deportation.
Those who are advising Thaw, among
them some of the abest criminal law
yers in Canada, said that they wer4 con-
fident that the government will welcome
such solution of the problem with
which Thaw's unexpected arrival so sud
denly confronted them. No one con-
tends that Thaw has violated a single
law of the Dominion unless it be that
one which provides that no alien may
enter Canada without special permit,
within five years after he has been an
inmate of an asylum for the insane.
In the event that such an alien has
entered by railroad the law provides
that he shall be transported to the capi
tai of the last state through which he
passed prior to crossing the frontier.
But Thaw did not enter by train. He
came behind a horse and when captured
he was nearer Vermont than any other
state of the union. Already the immi-
grafton authorities have arranged to
hold hearing at Coaticook, the nearest
point to the Vermont border, whenever
Fhaw may fall into their hands.
The plan of Thaw's lawyers, and there
Is reason to believe that they have had
assurance of its success, is to have Thaw
examined before that board and ordered
leported to Montpelier. Than any other
state Thaw would prefer Vermont as a
refuge. Investigation made in his be-
lalf has convinced those who are work
ng in his interests that Vermont would |
present the most involved extradition |
proceedings.
The New York authorities, while ex-
'rting pressure at Ottawa to bring |
Ibout about Thaw's deportation to the |
Sew York border, il possible, or to have |
iim transferred to Montreal as prison |
II of the immigration department, have |
nevertheless anticipated the Vermont |
contingency and sent there yesterday |
Iohn f. Mack, former district attorney |
# Dutehess county, to arrange for pos
ible hearings.