The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-11
THAW CASE
is ADJOURNED
TO TOMORROW
Now Charged With
Consplring Escape
From MatteaWan
Jerome, Failing In This Count,
VIII Contend That Harry
Is Insane

| 10 lII0QisG
| Colebrook, n. H, Sept. 1.-THE case
| of Harry K. Thaw, fugitive from Mat
teawan, free agent for three hours,
yesterday, prisoner, today, of Sheriff
Drew, of Coos County, n. H. assun-
ed, this afternoon, the familiar as
pect of uncertainty and delay. The
| counsel working for and against his
| return to the asylum agreed not to
arraign him before a police magis-
trate until p. m. and then to ad-
journ the case until tomorrow. He is
charged with conspiring with others
to bring about his escape from Mat
| teawan and it is upon this charge that
William Travers Jerome will seek his
return to New York
Failing in this, Jerome will contend
that Thaw is insane and should be
turned over to an attendant from
Matteawan. Followed by crowds who
neither cheered nor hooted, Thaw went
about the village, today, accompanied
by Sheriff Drew, apparently content
ed and hopeful.
Co1ebrook, N H, Sept Hilary
Kendall Thaw, thrown out of the Do
mfnion of Canada, yesterday, and ar
rested near here after a so mile flight
IN an automo bile, spent the night in
a hotel room here under guard. The
lawyers kept him up until a late hour,
laying plans to resist extradition to
New York. In another part ofs,the ho-
tel William Travers Jerome, deputfz-
ed by the State to get the fugitive
back to Matteawan, conferred with
Thaw's most recent captor, Sheriff
Holman Drew, over the court pro-
cedure to be followed, today.
Mr.. Jerome, accompanied by Deputy
Attorney General Franklin Kennedy,
of New York, reached town, last night,
on special train and while they ate
in the kitchen of the Monadnock
House. they discussed the situation.
At first merely detained, Thaw was
subsequently, arrested on complaint
charging him with conspiracy in con-
nection with his escape from the asy-
1um and it was upon this charge that
he was to be arraigned, today, before
Judge James T. Carr in police court
he be remanded pending the receipt
of a requisition warrant
The Thaw- lawyers, yesterday took
preliminary steps to swear out writ
Of habeas corpus in the prisoners be-
half. It was said, this morning that
they might not press this further and
that, like the Canadian counsel who
tried hard to keep Thaw in the Sher-
brooke jail, they considered their client
safer a prisoner than at large If
freed again, Thaw might be seized by
John Lanyon, a private detective who
has been working with Jerome, and
hustled across the New York state line
as lunatic. Both Messrs. Jerome and
Kennedy were indignant at the action
of the Canadian authorities who put
Thaw over the border, yesterday.
I'VE had no ink1ing of it," said
Jerome, today. ITO say the least it
was a high handed piece of work. 1t
was neither fair to Thaw, 1unatic,
nor to the state of New York. More
over, it upsets the principles of justice
4 - - ~
not doubt that it will result in more
| or less of a scandal in Canada"
Mr.. Kennedy was more emphatic.
1T was contemplate and cowardly,''
| he said. eff those who put Thaw
across the line thought they were Civ
| ing him an even break in setting him
down with no. American officers in
sight they failed to look at the other
| side of the case. Here was Thaw, a
1unatic, turned loose with only the
clothes on his back, short of funds and
| with no means of transportatio save
a newspa perman. Thatw is not a sane
| man. That has been proven time and
| time again. This made it the more
i pitiabIe. It was a terrible thing
Thaw retired before midnight and
| far from objecting to the presence of
Deputy Sheriff Burleigh KeIsea, insist
ed that other guards too, sit near the
| door. Two armed deputies dozed in
rocking chairs just outside the room.
the door was left ajar and a light
was kept burning in the hall all night.
| Thaw was fearful of what he called
strong arm work. After his experience
at Coaticook, yesterday, nothing would
| surprise him.
Jerome's presence filled him with
| terror The unwelcome taste of lib
| erty, yesterday, with it's incident
thrills and responsibilities, left him
trusting entirely to counsel and max
| ing few suggestions. Thaw himself
| does not know except in one case, the
| identity of the three men who caused
| him to be set down over the line at
| Norton Mills. The man he does know
| is Agent Parkinson, chief of the Do
! nninion Secret Service, and it was at
Parkirson's head Thaw hurled the
! heavy glass tunb1er. The hotel cor
| ridors here had the appearance of a
convention time, this forenoon. The
! Monadnock House accommodations
| were crowded
A crowd followed Thaw to the bar
| bershop and pressed their noses against
the shop windows while he was being
shaved, this morning. Sheriff Drew
stood beside him. Thaw was in gay
| humor and spoke 1aughing1y of his
trip yesterday
u Thaw's arraignment in police court
was delayed. Jerome was waiting for
II his detective aide, aLanyon Justice
Carr came to the hotel shortly after g
| o'clock and said it was ready to pre-
side at any time the complaint against
| ,Fhaw desired 1t looked then as If
the hearing would not get under way
before IL o'clock.
| After being shaved, Thaw returned
to his room and talked with his law
yers-