Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-02
Habeas Corpus Writ Hear
ing Held Before Judge
at Sherbrooke.
RULES OUT THE PUBLIC
Thousands, Drawn to City by
County Fair, Battle to See
Famed Prisoner.

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ed with visitors to the county fair.
Sherbrooke was astir early today,
ready, eager and anxious to take what
ever part it might in Harry Thaw's
second battle in the superior court in
st. Francois county.
Thaw is resisting liberation from
jail on a writ of habeas corpus obtain
ed last week after a fight with his old
enemy, William Travers Jerome. Fear:
ing a repetition of last weeks demon
stration, the court room in today's
hearing was set in the privacy of the
judges chambers. The curious, morbid
and Historically sympathetic crowd
who began troOping toward the court
house at o'clock, denied the court
proceedings, seemed determined to see
the famous prisoner. Plain clothes
detectives mingled with the throng.
John LanyOn, a private detective of
New York, clung close to Jerome.
JEROME THREATENED.
There have been repeated threats of
attempts on Jerome's life. So sure
were the New York forces apparently
of a favorable outcome that a high
powered automobile was chartered TO
rush Thaw to Coaticooke. The chauf-
/ feur was told to be at the court house
at this afternoon.
Once across the Vermont border, it
is the intention TO bundle Thaw in a
/ high power caT and head straight for
/ the New York line, This would OBJ
viate extradition proceedings. High
/ handed though this appears, it is said
| Jerome countenances it, inasmuch as
/ Lanyon has been a special attendant
at Matteawan. AS such he could take
! charge of Thaw as lunatic and take
! him home as one would a runaway
child.
REPORTERS ADMITTED.
When the judge reached his cham
! bers shortly after 9 he said he would
admit four reporters to the hearing
Ignorant that the hearing was to be
held in the chambers, crowds jammed
the superior court room corridors and
stairways, but the police kept order
Outside the courthouse there were
fully $4,000 persons. Several ran IE
to shake NAYS hand as he was about
to enter but Jailer Laforce showed
them back. Thaw looked i'll at ease
over the possibility of early deporta-
ton, which evidently worried him.
immigration authorities, allies of
New York in the struggle, conferred
during the morning as to the manner
of seizing Thaw and rushing him to
Coaticook for quick hearing in the
event of victory before Judge Hutch
+inson.
PROCEEDINGS GO on.
Over violent objection of Thaw's
counsel, Judge Hutchinson supported
the superior court today and ordered
the Thaw habeas corpus proceedings
brought by New York state should 90
on. Aime Geoffrien, representing the
prime minister and attorney general,
then announced that the attorney gen.
eral had interviewed and that this
matter must be decided at once If
he is not liberated on the writ
GeOffrien said, "other means will be
taken, as Thaw must not be harbored
in a Canadian Jail"
Thaws face fell, and his lawyers. de-
claring the writ irregular, spoke in
turn pleading for adjournment until
Friday
I'VE must go on said the court.
Il represent the attorney general" :"
said Geoffrien, "and it is of paramount
interest that justice move swiftly.
Our jails are not public boarding
houses. 1t is the attorney general S
| desire that this matter be settled in.
stantly by the liberation of Thaw.
SHOCK TO THAw SIDE.
THE appearance Of a representative
, for the attorney general is a thunder
; bolt to us said Attorney McKeown
one of the Thaw counsel. I'VE did
, not know of his presence until this
morning. We should like time to con
suit the law as to his right to appear
Il sent for him." said the court
The issues here are plain First
is the man Illegally detained; second
does Chief of Police Boudreau OF
Coaticook have the right to petition
for writ of habeas corpus. Both
Questions are points of law purely. anC
see no reason for granting an ad
o Ijournment"
L ARGUMENTS ARE BEGUN.
> Arguments TO sustain the writ ther
/ were begun by Samuel Jacobs, appear
/ ing directly for Bondreau, and indi
!, rectly for Jerome. There was such {
I crush outside that mems coats wer,
Il torn, hats smashed and collars twist
ed. In the court house yard a louC
" mouthed orator was harranguing tn,
crowd at intervals to holIer: "Thre.