The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-08-30
WILL DEPORT THAW
LIMITED THAT HE WILL BE RUSH.
ED ACROSS THE YER
MONT LINE.
LEGAL TALENT IS ENGAGED
Awaits Hearing on Habeas Corpus
neutrality-suspicious. Believed
to Have Aided Escape is Arrested
While In Court.

Sherbrooke. Que, Aug 22.--IIarry
X. Thaw will cross the American bor-
der in the state Of Vermont. II events
in the case OF the fugitive from Mat
teawan shape Themselves as Canadian
officials in close touch with the pro-
ceedings expect. This was the semi
official intimation here Wednesday
night as Thaw awaits q hearing on
the habeas corpus writ his counsel
obtained.
Offlcial opinion inclines to the be-
lief that under the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings Thaw will be declared a free
man Immediately Thaw is released
by the court it is understood, two
immigration inspectors will take him
into custody as an undesirable under
the immigration act and rush the flu
gitive to Coaticook, near where he
was arrested.
The deportation formalities ended
Thaw will be taken on board Grand
Trunk train and conveyed to the bor-
der. where the inspectors will hand
him over to the American authorities.
The point of deportation indicated will
be Island Pond. Vermont, the nearest
border station on the Grand Trunk.
about 20 miles south OF Coaticook.
The through ticket" to Detroit
which Thaw has, immigration officials
have learned. was purchased In Coati'
cook. and reads from that point to
hotr II 10 n
from one American station, via Can
ada, to another foreign point, and does
not qualify as through" transporta-
ton.
Thaw paced his cell while his coun-
sci succeeded in having his applica-
tion for writ of habeas corpus
granted and set for argument. Mean
while friends improved the opportu-
nifty to engage the best legal talent
available for Thaw.
Justice Globensky's decision was
rendered in private, while perhaps 800
persons were assembled in the court
room hoping to witness the proceed
ings. From among these idlers i'm
migrant officers arrested man Civ.
ing the name,of Mitchell Thompson"
who was identified as one Of the two
men with Thaw when he was arrest
ed near Coaticook.
Thompson insisted he was resi-
dent of Toronto, but both Sheriff
Hornbeck and District Attorney Con-
ger of Duchess county. New York,
who looked him over, said he was
none other than Gentleman Roger"
Thompson, late of New York city,
and reputed chauffeur of the black
automobile that whirled Thaw away
from Matteawan at more than GO
miles an hour.
Thaw's escape was one of the most
dramatic affairs of the kind ever re-
corded After knocking down gate
man, who was admitting milkman to
the Matteawan asylum grounds. he
leaped into a taxicab standing just
outside the wall. This was headed
for tho Connecticut state line and
the moment Thaw entered the chauf-
feur put on full speed and dashed
away. Before a half mile had been
covered by the taxicab II overlook a
six-cylinder touring car that had been
moving slowly, also toward the Con-
necticut line. The taxicab slackened
sped and Thaw leaped out as the
smaller machine drew alongside the
touring car. The door Of the latter
was open, and Thaw leaped aboard.
AS the door slammed the touring car
spee6ed away at a rate of so miles an
hour. The machine dashed through
asylum, without any diminution of
speed, and. according to late reports.
received by the asylum authorities.
crossed the Connecticut line in the
vicinity of New Canaan, Conn.