Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-05
A ACOOD WITNESS.
Thaw on Stand All Day in
Deportation Hearing.
Jerome Hopes 10 Have Him
Across Line In Vermont, Today.
Thaw Plans to Figh. Exifsdltion
There--He Issues a Statement.


was not "raifr0aded" across the bor-
der by the immigration authorities. to-
day, as his counsel had predicted. A
special board of inquiry sat on his
ease. from 10 o'clock in the morning
until nearly $50 in the afternoon. then
adjourned. until 9.30 tomorrow morn
ing, when the prisoner will be recall
cd ThaW was ON the stand most of
| the day and made good witness.
Toward the close of the afternoon ses-
sion his nquistors gradually worked
| into the question of his sanity, and
| though his counsel violently objected
| it was Of no avail and this line of
Interrogation viii he taken ap again,
| tomorrow.
Though staving off deportation for
| the day, Thaw lost in two particulars
| His lawyers were denied a writ Of
| habeaS corpus at Sherbreolle, the
same judge who sustained the writ
| of habeas corpus which east Thaw
out of jail. yesterday. at Sherbrooke,
| and he failed ta establish before the
| board the contention that he had en-
| tered Canada as a tourist and like
! Jack Johnson should be allowed to.
continue TO his destination He could
| produce no through ticket to any
| point outside Canada There was in
| his possession n ticket Ia Detroit. but
| unfortunately for ThaW, it had been
purchased at Coaticook
| Unable To show that he had come
| into the Dominion a any recognized
| port Of entry, ThaW was practically
| convicted Of entering by stealth and
| on tn,s charge alone he can be de-
! sorted But on this charge he could
| aIpeal t6 the minister of the inte-
| rier, While no appeal would lie should
he be found insane at the present
| time or to have been in an insane asy-
| lum within five years. II found of un-
| seupd mind now it is within the dis
| erection of tire board to deport Thaw
| direct To the New York state line,
| possibly to Rousc's Point. This would
| mean swift and certain return 10 Mat
teaw4n. Conviction on either of the
Gther two charges would mean deport
ailon to Vermont.
| William Travers Jerome spent am M
ratieat day waiting for something to
happen. As chief of the New York
forces lie hoped to have Thaw across
the border, tonight. His automobile
stood al DAY near the Grand Trunk
Railway station in the second story
II which rhaaI is held and all day
2 Jerome <t4ade up and down the station
/ Platform Twenty other automobiles
were pauting for the dash to the line
pine miles away.
| 4ThaW resented keenly the questions as
to his sanity II this were TO be taken
np lie eontended. he should be allowed
tn have alienists present Two physicians
fer the Immigration authorities. Brs.
| Gurd and Beauchamp, were present.
I When asked point blank if he was sane
| or insane when he killed Stanford White,
/ Thaw quoted with remarkable show of
| memory, from the conflicting opinions
of the many alienists Identified with his
| case and laconically suggested that the
| board take it's choice. He brided when
| asked about his mothers condition. just
| prior to his berth. and said that perhaps
| she was better qualified to answer. Mrs.
| Thaw though it had been reported she
had left Pittsburg her way here, had
not arrived, tonight.
The Thaw lawyers desparing of de-
feating deportation, have al last begun
to make plans for resisting eXtradition in
Vermont. Counsel have been retained
there 1t is said. and unless Thaw is sent
or kidnapped II the New York state
line the lawyers hope to fight on in the
states.
7, T. McIner of Ottawa. one of the
fathers of the immigra tion law. join
led the group of Thaw lawyers, today.
From now on he will seek to find a
loophoIe in the statute he helped to
cFeate. SSH
The belief was general. tonight. that
IThdW would be deported. tomorrow.
IL. +. MareehaL counsel for the immi-
grafton board insisted there would he
i no strong arm work and that Thaw
would be escorted to the border in u
disnided manner.
Il Besides ThaW, the witnesses. today
IWerc Henry Johnston, a farmer who
dreVc Thawsacross the border; Octave
Nadcau, a farmer who drove him To
the Ian Of Ben Cadieux at Barford
where Thaw was arrested, and the
lnn-keeper himself. Their testimony
Was adduced to support the entering
Ihy stealth charge.
THaw issued the following state
ment, tonight:
~Rcing informed that one motive be-
hind this illegal pursuit is suspicion
I'M Il small but influential quarter that
# put on trial in any court outside
New York we might uncover those
names that We're protected, in 1907. we
,tre forced to state we have no nten-
lion of uncovering those names that
were left in blank.