Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28
THAW ATTORNEYS
WIN A VICTORY
Slayer's Habeas Corpus Pro-
ceedinqs Are Delayed.
BRIEF FREEDOM Is EXPECTED
Chauffeur Believed to Have Aided Es-
cape Arrested While in Court
Best Legal Talent OF Dominion
Is Reticent.

SheFbrooke, Que, Aug. 23.-Until
Wednesday OF this week, barring
unforeseen developments, Harry K.
Thaw will remain in the Sherbrooke
jail. On that day he is TO be ar
Taigned in the superior court on
writ Of habeas corpus. Between now
and that time his battery of Cana
dian lawyers hopes TO perfect plans,
not to thwart deportation but to sub
nit TO it gracefully-to a point Sc
lected by Thaw. This. in brief, is
the status Of Matteawon's fugitive,
arrested on Tuesday near Coaticook.
Quebec, and committed to jail here
on a defective warrant.
Official opinion inclines to the belief
that under the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings Thaw will be declared free
man. Immediately Thaw is released
by the court. it is understood, two i'm
migration 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 point Of deportation indicated
will be Island Pond, Vt, the nearest
border station on the Grand Trunk,
about twenty miles, south of Coati-
cook.
Thaw paced his cell while his coun-
sci succeeded in having his applica-
ton for writ of habeas corpus
granted and set for argument today.
Meanwhile friends improved the op-
portunity to engage the best legal tai
ent available for Thaw.
Charles d. White, leading barTister
of the province. had been retained by
telegraph by George Lauder Carnegie.
Thaw's brotheF-in-law.
Announcement was made that ]. n.
Greenshields, K c., of Montreal. con-
sidered one of the most able criminal
lawyers in Canada, had been retained
to lead the Thaw legal talent Mr..
Greenshields said he did not expect
any difficulty in freeing him under the
commitment on which lie is held at
present.
From among the idlers in the court
room immigration officers arrested a
man giving the name of Mitchell
Thompson" who was identified as one
of the two men with Thaw when he
was arrested near Coaticook. Al
though he denied that he had aided
Thaw IN crossing the border. main
tanning that he had met the fugitive
by chance. he was held in $500 bail
for hearing Friday.
Thaw indicated by many ways that
he is beginning to feel acutely the
strain Of his captivity and the doubt
as to the outcome. For several hours
he paced the floor, sometimes stop
ping and stamping irritably, at other
times quickening his walk around the
hospital ward almost to a run.
When seen by reporters he was sit
ting on his cot with his head buried
ln his hands.
Harry X Thaw, after two days Of
| madcap freedom is in prison again.
He made more than 500 miles in vari-
Gus ways by automobile. train, farm
ers' wagons and walking through star
| lit woods until he reached the little
| French village Of ST. Mermenegilde de
| Garford, just over the boundry from
New Hampshire.
At Coaticook, where he was lodged
in the lookup Immediately after his
arrest, Thaw engaged a local lawyer.
Two men were arrested with Thaw.
! but liberated later at Coaticook
He escaped from the state hospital
| for the criminal insane here when the
gate was opened to admit a milkman
Sunday morning, darting into a power
full machine that stood waiting out
side, and soon reached Connecticut,
/ so miles away.