Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-26
THAW SHUT OFF
FROM PUBLIC BY
LAWYERS ORDERS
Arrange With SherbrOOke
Sheriff for Witnesses at
All Interviews.
JEROME EXPECTS
POSSIBLE DELAY
Admits Long Siege May Occur
Before Case Is Final
Iy Settled.

SHERBROOKE, Quebec, Aug. rs.
Harry K. Thaw's many lawyers,
fearful lest he hurt his case with the
erratic conduct of his self-planned
press campaign, shut him off from all
interviewers today. They obtained
from the sheriff an order to the Gov
ernor of Sherbrooke Jail that no one
should see Thaw except in the pres
ence of some one of his counsel.
The order serves two purposes.
First, it prevents Thaw from giving
out more rambling interviews, except
surreptitiously, by messengers; sec
ond, it would circumvent any secret
attempt to obtain from him a state
ment in which he might inadvertently
reveal something about the plot re-
sulting in his release from Mattea
wan.
A cold rain kept the army of law
yerS. newspaper men and others
brought here by the Thaw case, with
in doors today, where Zoe and friend
swapped theories and predictions, and
mutually agreed that even now, ten
days after Thaw's break for liberty,
legal moves for and against his re-
turn were in q state of chaos.
Although Thaw's counsel insist that
they will produce Thaw in the Su
perior Court tomorrow morning on
the writ of habeaS corpus and argue
that his detention in Sherbrooke on
the present commitment is illegal, it
would not surprise those who have
followed the ramifications of the case
IL they should abandon the writ and
leave Thaw in his cell without fur
ther move until the opposition dis
closed its hand
Two captains of the Salvation Army
arrived here today from Montreal.
They said they had been sent here
to offer Thaw spiritual consolation"
Jerome Expects Delay.
The possibility of a long-drawn-out
fight in the courts over the constitu-
tionality of Canada's drastic immi-
grafton act, under which it is pro-
posed to deport Harry K. Thaw. was
the favorite theme today Of both fac
tions gethered at Sherbrooke.
Going over the situation informally,
William 7. Jerome and District At
torney Conger, of Duchess county,
New York, sat by roaring wood fire
In the Magog House, the storm CEN
tre, since Thaw's arrival of nearly all
conferences about him.
II cannot express an opinion on
avery theoretical defense suggested
by Thaw's lawyers" said Jerome.
"We hope to get him back to Mat
teawan, where he belongs. but 1T does
look as though we were in for
siege"
Thaw continued to show little inter
est in anything except his publicity
plans. He is mailing and telegraph
Ing statements to papers in Vermont,
MT hcf n pdiner oil tho fhan-
ries of court delay here he apparently
expects to be deported. He also in
sisted again today that in view of
Jerome's presence here he wanted his
lawyers to reissue a statement quot
Ing Jerome as saying in NV York in
1908 that Thaw was sane.
No Test of Immi grafton Act.
r. b. Williams. of the Dominion i'm
migration department, was quoted to-
day as saying he placed no faith in
Thaw's chances of testing the immi-
grafton act in the courts.
I'VE believe Harry Thaw will be
promptly deported," he said, "and we
do not put much faith in this story
that he can make an international
affair of his case Our duty is simple.
We will give Thaw a hearing. AS
soon as he is turned down by the min
lister of the interior, as | have every
reason to believe he will be, then we
will take Thaw to Vermont and turn
him loose. That will settle our end of
the affair What happens in Vermont
is none of our affair."
Gentleman Roger" Thompson sent
a message last night to his widowed
mother in New York, telling her not
to worry. His case on a charge of
aiding a lunatic to cross the border,
will come up before police judge
here on Friday.
Thompson has not receded from his
determination not to squeal' and tell
all about his driving Thaw from Mat
teawan in the black car. His threat
last week to tell all resulted in the
Immediate employment of counsel for
him by the Thaw family, and in other
ways Roger has been made so COM
Portable for the time being that he
prefers to say nothing.