The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-08-26
GOV. STONE SAYS
THAW WILL NOT
BE DEPORTEO
Family Representative Forces
Long Legal Battle
JEROME AT SHERBRO0KE
officials Who Prosecuted Slayer of
Stanford White Follows Trail of
Fugitive.

Sherbrooke, p. @, Aug &C. The
arrival of William Travers Jerome,
Harry Kendall Thaw's cid prosecutor
the assumption by ex-Goy. William A.
stone OF Pennsylvania of the pos:
ton of spokesman for the 'rhaw fam
lily pending the coming Of Roger
O'Mara, the Pittsburg detective, and
the injection into the case Of renew
ed talk of it assuming international
aspects were briefly the chief de-
yelopments of the day in Sherbrooke
the ninth since Stanford Whites
slayer fed from Matteawan.
The possibility of an International
twist In the case came from eX Gov
Stone, who raised the point that g
Canadian, embroiled in the Domin-
lens ironclad immigration law rcgu-
lations, would doubtless have Il right
to appeal to the courts. In my Opin-
ion, said Mir. Stone. The snow VIII
be deep in Sherbrcoke before Thaw
leaves Canadian soil
None Of the contingent Of Thaw's
Canadian lawyers would commit
themselves as &c whether they shar-
ed Nj. Stones views. although all OF
them conceded that The constitution
ality Of the drastic immigration law
comparatively new one-bad never
been tested in the courts. they
said that so far rs they knew ,hc
procedure outlined last week would
be followed, that of arraigning Thaw
in the supreme court tomorrow on a
writ OF babeas corpus, obtaining his
release on the present commitment
making a fight before the lmmgr3-
lion board and then relnquishing to
the American lawyers. If Thaw were
depCrted, the management of che
legal battle in Vermont.
Mr.. Jerome arrived in town about
l.45 o'clock yesterday afternoon He
had travelled by automobile an the
way from Nyack, n. Y, whence he
departed Saturday
THE question OF eXtraditing Thaw
frcm Vermont he said, will rest
entirely with the governor Politics
sometimes enters into cases of this
sort. Both sides can present their
easy to the governor in the form of
briefs, then il is up to the governor
to do just as he pleases. The rela-
tons CT our states are uncertain in
the matter of extraditiCn.' Mr. Jer-
ONE spent the afternoon in confer
encc with L. A. Conger, district AZ
tCruey of Duchess county, New York
and The Canadian lawyers retained 20
represent the New York interests IN
court
So many versions were current of
what will happen after Thaw is turn
ed over to the immigration authOri-
ties that it was case of take your
choice
Thaw will of course be represented
by counsel and will have the right
to produce witnesses ia his behalf.
The questions which will be fought
out are whether he is an undersir-
able alien, either as a lunatic or a
person confined in a lunatic asylum
with a period OF five years. or per
son who crossed the border by
stealth and misrepresentation. Nor
ton Mills. VT. a station about 10
miles southeast of Coaticook. is the
point tentatively selected for handing
Thaw back across the border. In
anticipation of this. the New York
interests. it was said, were laying
plans for his immediate detention
once he is on Vermont soil. on the
warrants issued at poughkeepsie
charging Thaw with conspiring with
Howard Barnum. the old Matteawan
gate-keepcr. and others. IN his plot
/ 10 escape. Whether the Vermont an.
thorities viii regard such a warrant
as void. inasmuch as Thaw is legally
lunaiic in New York. moi charge
able with any crime is problema,ical
Aside from the row about ,hc
breakfast Thaw had q clash with the
cid jail governor, La Force. over two
old newspapers. The governor started
TO pick mp a sheet that lay on the
floor Dent touch that paper.
cried Thaw Il was only going to re
move it, said La Force Don't be-
angry with me- Thaw took the
paper from La Forces hand. u had
been folded so that a picture OF
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw could be seen
| That paper is Of great Importance
10 me. can't have 60 disturbed
As a matter Of fact In not angry
but ] am likely TO be soon unless q
newspaper which was taken from
my room yesterday il returned. u
you don't get it for me. III get ID my
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