The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-28
Jerome Sees Attorney-Gen-
eral of Quebec to Secure
Prisoners Release
OTHER ATTORNEYS
TRY SECOND MOVE
Thaw Rests in Jail with the
Triple Victory Already
Secured

Sherbrooke, p. O., Aug. 2s.--The case
of Harry X. Thaw so far as Sherbrooke
is concerned entered temporary doldrums
to-day. The court victory of his law
yers yesterday in quashing their own
writ OF habeas corpus and having him
recommitted to Jail means either that
he will remain there until he is tried
by the Kings bench in October or that
the New York state attorneys, out
lanked in the legal skirmishes, must
make new move looking to his liberia .
ton and deportation by the immigra-
tion authorities.
The New York state lawyers were
working along two lines to-day. VIII
liam Trayers Jerome and Franklin Ken
nedy, deputy attorney general, conferred
with the attorney general of Quebec,
seeking to obtain authority for getting
Thaw out of his cell, and the other coun-
sci for the state continued their efforts
to persuade the Coaticook magistrate to
withdraw the commitment under which
Thaw was arrested
Roger 0'AIara, the Pittsburg detective,
who was expected to take charge Of
Thaw's case, had not arrived to-day,
and there was considerable mystery as
to his whereabouts
The three points in which Thaw's
lawyers were successful in their first
legal skirmish were:
l. 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
magistrate and the commitment on
which he is held quashed. This would
have released him to the immigration
officers
3. Judge Globensky granted the plea
of Thaw's counsel for a diseontinuance
of the writ of habeas corpus which might
have brought about his release yester-
day. This remedied strategic blunder
made BY Thaw's lawyers last week WHO
apparently did not realize then that in
seeking their clients release they were
playing into the opposition's hands.
So rotous was the scene in the SUI
perior court when Judge Arthur GIoben
sky refused to allow counsel represent
ing New York state to be party to the
proceedings. that the court subsequently
warned spectators that a repetition OF
the cheering. chair climbing, handker-
chief waving and general hysteria would
mean Jail sentences for the demonstra-
tors.
Speaking from the bench at the after
noon session he said that never in his
experience as member of the bar and
of the bench had he been a witness to
such disgraceful scene" Ii was car.
ried out in the presence of court at
tendants and four armed Dominion po-
lice, who stood immobile while emo
tional women rushed toward Stanford
Whites SLAYER crying; "Three cheers for
Thaw''; "Three cheers for the British
flag We will give you justice, Harry"
Thaw Duly Appreciative
From his cell last night Thaw issued
the following statements
May I acknowledge the fair play ac.
corded by everyone since my arrival in
Canada and express my gratitude for
the sympathy shown by Canadian peo-
pie in my present struggle to regain
my liberty and to thank especially all |
the Canadians that | have come in con-
tact with personally. II is much bet |
ter than I deserve and entirely at va
rance with the malice shown in New |
York.
"It is only fair to make clear that
the people Of New York are all right;
no unfairness can be found in the people
Of New York. A proof of this was
found in the vicious opposition to Civ
ing me an honest jury trial shown BY
the undemocratic attorney general. He
and his pals know that New York
jury would stand for fair play, too"