The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-09-05
Battling Gamely to the End
Harry Loses and May be
Deported Before the End Of
the Week
| COMMISSION PROBES
INTO WHITE MURDER
Rakes Mans Whole Life Bare
800 haw Makes Good I'm,
preston but Fate Believed
to be Sealed---His Lawyers
Scatter Because Money Not
Forthcoming

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COATICOOK, QUE, Sept. s.--Harry
Thaw lost his fight for freedom today.
He is still In Canada, and will be un-
til tomorrow. possibly until Saturday.
but that he is to be deported is certain.
The Dominion government does not
want him. New York State does, and
New York State probably will get him.
Even his ATTORNEYS turned on Thaw
today. From $3.50 in the morning un.
til $40 In the afternoon a board OF in.
quiry, made up OF Ave petty tmmigra-
ton officers. deliberated on his rights
of freedom in Canada. At that time
adjourned until $40 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Thaw was given one of the most COM
prehensive griilings of his long career
before court officials. The entire out
line of his two trials for the murder
of Stanford White were dragged out
OF the past and rehearsed before him.
His hereditary. his family instincts tina
practices of his youth, were once moro
ventilated.
Puts Up Good Fight.
The man put up a game front. He
was fighting perhaps as he has never
fought before, and the effort showed
| IN his actions, In his choice OF words.
In the studious care with which he
managed the slightest movement of
his body. even In the turning of his
eyes 1t was not the old Thaw who
faced that board Of Enquiry. 1t was
| a man who had excellent control OF all
| his faculties. man who. to look at
casually. was endowed. not with mental
weakness, but with large intellectual
/ power.
He won the respect of his examiners,
| II not their decision to give him lib
erty. For five solid hours he sat an
swering questions and recounting bits
OF his autobiography. There was an
unmistakable and incessant struggle
| going on within him. II anything. II
was his effort to appear sane that mill
tated against belief In his sanity. Al
/ though the board of inquiry did not
| settle his case during the day, there
| Is no doubt OF their ultimate inten-
thority it is repeated that the minister
| of the interior has instructed the board
| that Canada does not want Thaw To-
! night one of his lawyers said:
| Says It's All Over.
| ''It Is all over Thaw will be de-
ported tomorrow or the next day"
| And his lawyers have given up the
| fight. ]. N. Greenshields his chief OF
counsel, has returned to Montreal on
| the plea of more urgent business. ".
/ X. LaFlame. who Is known as Canada's
| leading criminal lawyer. left for other
parts this afternoon. The scattered
ends of the prisoners legal battery
| stretch out tonight in every direction
| but that of Coaticook.
| Lack of money Is largely to blame,
One of the lawyers said openly this
afternoon that Thaw's family had de-
serted him. 1T would appear" said
this man. who may not be named,
that his relatives believe he belongs
to Matteawan and not at large. The
truth of the matter is. l think SO
| myself"
/ When the board gives its decision
tomorrow Thaw may appeal to the
minister of the interior II he wishes.
He probably will not, however, for
in such an event the government will
rake In the insanity charge. and on
1t deport Thaw to New York State.
II he does not appeal and permits
the board to deport him as an unde-
sirable alien the chances are that he
least. Is what Thaw's attorneys say.
The New York officers decline ia
make prophesies,
THE man Is one of two things"
said w. L. Shurtleff. an attorney for
Thaw. HE is either the murderer
of Stanford White or he Is insane.
The immigration department will %
regard him."
Past History Exposed.
During the afternoon session of the
board Thaw's past history was mer-
cilessly exposed. He was asked IL he
was insane when he shot White. and
j replied that rome medical. authorities
had so Judged him. The witness
himself, however. would not admit
that he was insane at that time. OF
any other. Evelyn Nesbit's name wal
brought in. so was that OF Mrs. MARY
Copley Thaw, his mother.
The afternoons examination wal
meant to establish one Of two things
murderer. Two physicians from
Montreal. both attached to the I'm
migration department. were present
during the entire day.
Thaw's attorneys made one last at,
tempt this morning to block the &C.
tim of the immigration people. Thes
appeared before Magistrate Matthew
Hutchinson In the Superior court q
i Sherbrooke, and asked for q prohi.
bition writ. It was refused. TIL
i opportunity for issuance OF such 1
writ is still possible through ths
court OF kings bench at Montreal
4 Judging from the attitude OF At
i LAWYERS tonight, however, there II III.
tie chance that this last attempt vii
be made.
L During the day preparations hays
been made at Northmills. vermonf
for q tight on Thaw's behalf when A.
u il dropped over the line. The ~
l'rangements were made through sM1l
4 Canadian lawyers. lust what TIL
n amount to. however. y nj n1oA