Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-05
ThaW Makes a
 Good Witness
BUT RESENTS QUESTIONS AS
 TO HIS SANITY
CASE NOT COMPLETED
Inquiry will be Resumed Today-8e- lief that He will be Deported Today Loses in Two Partculare.

Coaticook, Que, Sept 4-Harry K Thaw was not "railroaded'' across the border by the immigration authorities l today as his counsel had predicted. A special board of inquiry sat on his case from ten o'clock in the morning until nearly 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon, then adjourned until half past nine o'clock tomorrow morning, when the prisoner will be recalled.
 ThaW was on the statnd most of the day and made a good witness. Toward the close of the afternoon session his 1nqu1SitOTS gradually worked into the question of his sanity and, though his counsel violently objected, 1t was of no avail and this line of Interrogation will be taken ap again tomorrow Thaw Loses on Two Points. Though staying off deportation for the day. Thaw lost in two particulars. His lawyers were denied writ of prohibition by Superior Judge Mat thew Hutchinson at Sherbrooke, the same judge who sustained the writ of habeaS corpus which Cast ThaW out of the SherbreOlle jail yesterday and he failed to establish before the board the contention that he had entered Canada as a tourist and like Jack Johnson, should be allowed to continue to his destination. He could produce no through ticket to anNs point outside l Canada There was in his possession a ticket to Detroit, but unfortunately for Thaw, it had been purchased at Coaticook.
 The Possibilities. Unable to show that he had come into the Dominion at any recognized port of entry, Thaw was practically convicted of entering by stealth and on this charge alone he can be de- ported But on this charge he could appeal to the minister of the interior, while no appeal would lie should he be found insane at the present time or to have been in an insane asylum within five years. If found of un- sound mind now it is within the dis cretion of the board to deport Thaw direct to the New York state line, possibly to Rouse's Point This would mean swift and certain return to Mat teawan. Conviction on either of the other two charges would mean depor- tation to Vermont.
 Resented Queries as to Sanity. William TraYers Jerome spent an impatient day waiting for something to happen AS chief of the New York forces he hoped to have Thaw across stood all day near the Grand Trunk railroad station in the second story of which ThaW. is held and all day Jerome strode up and down the station plat form. Twenty other automobiles were panting for the dash for the line, nine miles away.
 Thaw resented keenly the questions as to his sanity If this were to be taken up, he contended, he should be allowed to have alienists present Two physicians for the immigration author ities, Dr. Gurd and Dr. Beauchamp. were present.
 Thaw Quotes AIienists.
 
 sane or insane when he killed Stanford White Thaw quoted with remarkable show of memory, from the conflicting opinions of the many a1ienistS iden- t1f1ed with his case and laconically suggested that the board take it's choice. He bridled when asked about his mothers condition, just prior to his birth, and said that perhaps she was better qualified to answer Mrs. Thaw though it had been reported that she had left Pittsburgh on her way here, had not arrived tonight
 The Thaw lawyers despairing of de- feating deportation. have at last be- gun to make plans for resisting extra dition in Vermont. Counsel have been retained there, it is understood, and unless ThaW is sent or "llidnapped' to the New York state line, the lawyers hope to fight on in the states
 May Be Deported Today.
 l. R. E. Mclnne5 or ottawa, one of the fathers of the immigration law. joined the group of Thaw lawyers to- day. From now on he will seek to find a loophole in the statute he helped to create. It was the general belief tonight that Thaw would be deported tomorrow.
 D. L. Marechall counsel for the in1- migration board. insisted there would be no strong arm work" and that ThaW would be escorted to the border in g d1gnihed manner.
 Besides Thaw the witnesses today were Henry Johnston, q farmer who drove Tha'w across the border: Octave Nadeau. farmer who drove him, to the inn of Ben Cadieux at Barford where Thaw was arrested and the inn keeper himself. Their testimony was adduced to support the entering by stealth" charge.
 Statement by Thaw.
 Thaw issued the following statement tonight:
 Being informed that one motive be- hind this Illegal pursuit is a suspicion in small but influential quarter that if put on trial in any court outside New York state we might uncover those names that were protected in 1907. we are forced to state we have no intention of ever uncovering those names that were left in blank"