Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-20
ARGUMENTS MAY NOT BE
HEARD UNTIL NEXT WEEK
Matteawan Fugitive in Meantime
Remains Secluded in Hos
pital Ward Of Jail.
REFUSES TO SEE ANY ONE
Sentiment in Canadian Town Dis
tinctly in Prisoners Favor.
Mitchell Thompson Arrested.
Sheriff Hornbeck Arrives.

>HERBROOkE, Quebec. August 2O.-
Application for a writ of habeas cor
pus requiring the presence of Harry h.
Thaw In the superior court Mt Sher-
brooke was granted by Judge GIOben-
sky In his chambers this afternoon.
The writ is returnabIe at 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning.
SHERBROOkE. Quebec August 20
Application for a writ of habeas corpus
demanding the immediate release of
Harry X. Thaw, fugitive slayer of
stanford White, was submitted this
afternoon 10 Judge Globensky in the
superior court at Sherbrooke by Charles
D. White. lawyer. retained by tele-
graph overnight by the Thaw family.
This move. regarded at first as a
formality to bring Thaw into court
after his arrest yesterday as a fugitive
from Matteawan, was subsequently ex-
planned by his counsel as being more
significant They contended that he
has been detained illegally and that
through habeas corpus he should be
set free at once.
The court announced that it would
take the matter under consideration at
2:30 o'clock.
Should application be granted argu-
ments to sustain the writ could be
heard later, probably tomorrow, pos
sibly not until next week.
Remains Secluded Prisoner.
Meanwhile Thaw remained a secluded
prisoner in the Sherbrooke Jail Cau-
toned by his family, he refused to
discuss his case. Only his lawyers saw
him. From the hospital ward of the
prison. with two guards watching him,
delicacies but he refused steadfastly
to receive interviewers, even barring
''old friends who had reported his
murder trials and subsequent court
battles.
Sherbrooke takes the presence of its
notorious prisoner calmly. Perhaps oDU
persons, a score of them women, gath
cred In the courtroom awaiting the pro-
ceedings. Around the Jail was only a
handful of the curious.
Judge Sent from Montreal
Judge Globensky was sent down
here from Montreal to preside during
the so-called long vacation of the
court. He is due to return to Mon
treal tonight and should he grant ad
journment this might mean recess Of
a week.
This procedure relates solely to the
present charge against Thaw, that of
being a fugitive from Matteawan.
Other proceedings of the immigra ton
authorities We're held in abeyance
pending the outcome.
Sheriff Hornbeck of Dutchess county,
New York. where Matteawan is located
reached ahere this afternoon armed with
the warrant issued at Poughkeepsie
charging Thaw with conspiring with
Keeper Bainum and five other men to
obtain Thaws release. The ,herin said
ne would bide his time until the superior
cert had taken action.
Mitchell Thompson Arrested.
A man giving the name of Mitchell
Thompson and believed to be the
Roger Thompson implicated in Harry
Thaws escape, was arrested while
loiterins about the courthouse this aft
ernoon
The man was taken into custody by
Dominion immigration officers He is
described as one of the pair with Thaw
when he was arrested near Coaticook
yesterday.
Thompson was arraigned before
Judge Mulyena in police court and was
held in $500 bail for a hearing on
Friday. He could not furnish bail
and went back to Jail
The. supreme court, as locally desig-
mated. lie cour superieur." was well
crowded long before the proceedings were
scheduled to begin. Thaw's new chief
counsel, Charles u. White. visited the
Jail and conferred with Thaw and W. L.
cook yesterday. He then announced tina,
ne would apply for a writ of habeas
corpus requiring Thaw's presence in cour,
during the arguments for and agains,
his deportation. This new move promised
10 delay matters considerably. c. G.
Green and ID. Neville, representing the
Immigration authorities. arrived this
forenoon to follow the case.
Sentiment Favors Thaw.
Sl~
in Thaw's favor. A great crowd which
greeted him at the station when he ar
rived from Coaticook shouted: LET hin
go: set him free,' He hasn't done any
thing to US. Give him chance,"
There were by count eighteen woner
in the courtroom today: They We're wei
dressed. well hammered and quiet Th,
drag I'm the proceedings got on eyery.
body's nerves toward IL o'clock. but still
the judge had not emerged from hi.
chambers.
.Thaws attorneys In the meantime wer,
drawing up their application for the
habeas corpus writ. Thaw persistently
refuses to discuss his movements since
his escape. AS to the identity of tn,
men with him when arrested his lips ar,
sealed. The pair were allowed to e
when Thaw was detained. 1t was learned
today that they described themselves a
the time as Frank Briggan" and "Dr
Siss' They had met Thaw by chance
they said. The police here are incline,
to believe their story, and do not thinl
any of the quintet who engineered tn
escape accompanied him.
George Lauder Carnegie, his brother
in-law. wired during the night that h
was hurrying here with Thaw's sister
Margaret, and cautioned Thaw to della,
ali proceedings, if possible, pending hi
arrival.
Meantime Charles D. White, recon
mended to the Thaw family as Sher
brookes most astute lawyer, took charg
| of the case and planned to ask for ad