Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-21
THAW GRANTED HABEAS CORPUS
HEARING, TODAY, AT SHERBROOKE.
If Sustained He Will Be Free, but Canadian Author
tiles Announce Intent to Detain and Then Deport
Hin1-Thaw Has Imposing Array of Legal
Talent--N.Y. Determined to Have Him.
THAW'S LEGAL FIGHT.

HAWS LEGAL FiGH 7.
Shefbrooke. Que, Aug. 2o.-Harry
Kendall Thaw's legal fight against de-
portation to the United States after
his dramatic escape from the Mattea-
wan State hospital for the criminal in
sane. Sunday morning. last will be-
gin the open in this Canadian from
tier town, tomorrow morning. at 10
O'Clock. He is TO be produced then be-
fore Judge GlobenskY OF the superior
court on a writ of habeas corpus OBJ
tanned by shis counsel this afternoon If
the writ is sustained he will be free
man But for how long he will be free
is problematical. Dominion > immsra-
tioE authorities, watching every move
in the case, announced, tonight, that
they stand ready to detain him.
should he he released, and then to take
steps to thrust him back across the
border as IAN undesirable alien" either
at the New Hampshire line. where he
entered the dominion, or at some point
in New York state.
Facing such a situation, Stanford
Whites cratic slayer, ordinarily To-
ouations. has shut his lips tight and
for once in his life has refused to be
interviewed He has talked vaguely
Of matters not pertaining to his ease,
but rot one word has come from him
regarding his flight from MatteaWan.
or of the inception of the plot that led
to his delivery, or of the five men who
spirited him away
OF these five. enc is believed to be in
jail in Sherbrooke. He gave the name
of Mitchell Thompson" and insisted
that he WAS a resident Of Toronto. But
both sheriff Hornbecli and District At
terney eonger Of Duchess county, y.
Y, who looked him over, today. say he
was none other than Gentleman Rog-
err. Thompson, late of New York City
| and reputed chauffeur of the black au-
| tarlobiie that whirled Thaw from Mat
| teavan AT more than 30 miles an hour
| Gentleman Rogers Arrest.
Thompson was ldllng in the supreme
court room, waiting for the Thaw case
To come up, when the immigration Of
fcerS arrested him. He was quickly
identified rs one of the two men with
Thaw when he was arrested, yesterday.
He cenied that he had aided Thaw in
crossing the border and maintained
that he had met the fugitive by chance.
Notwithstanding his protestations of
innocence, he was held in $500 bail for
hearing, Friday. Unable to furnish
the bond he was remanded to Jail.
Technically he is charged with aid
ing and abetting a lunatic to cross the
Canadian border, an offence punishable
with a $500 fine. If the authorities fail
to hold him on this charge, District At
torney Conger will seek his extradition
on a warrant charging Roger Thomp-
son with conspiring with others to de-
feat the ends of justice in lberating
Thaw.
The warrant is here and ready, but
Will not he pressed until the immi
grafton law violation has been tested.
Thompson's defence, it is undes-
stood, Will emphasize provided he
admits coming across the border with
Thaw) the contention that ThaW has
not been found insane in Canada ana
that assisting him TO enter was, there
fore not violation of the law. In
this way, the question of Thaws sam
ity will be involved in the procedure
separate from his own case.
Ahompson's arrest in the the court
room, today, was unnoticed by the
casual spectators. The prisoner dodg-
ed the camera squad While being re-
moved to Jail. Shielding his face
with handkerchief he broke into d
run. greatly to the alarm of the aged
deputy who had him in charge and
stopped only when bystanders began
hue and cry, Then, still holding
his handkerchief over his face, ne
went quietly to Jail and was lodged
! in a cell not far from Thaw.
| At the Court House