South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-06
Rush to CoatiCOok With HabeaS
Corpus Writ and Final Hear
ing viii be Held at Montreal
Sept. Is.
ARREST JEROME ON
A GAMBLING CHARGE
Thaw Attorneys Express Indig-
nation Over Move-Court of
Inquiry Orders ThaW Back To
New York State.

COATICOOK, Que, Sept. 6.-Harry
K. Thaw will be produced before the
full kings bench, appeal side, at
Montreal. on the morning Of Sept. 10.
Meantime he may be detained here
OF at Sherbrooke. or taken to Mon
treaI on a moments notice. at the dis
cretion OF the immigration authori-
ties. Two of his counsel. J. f. Green
shields and n. K. Lahamme, obtained
a double writ-habeas corpus and
prohibition-at Montreal Friday and
whirled in a special train into Coati-
cook where not long before the i'm
migration authorities had ordered
Thaw's deportation from the Domin
ion.
Counsel for Thaw who had re-
manned in CoaticOok had announced
that the writ was returnable forth
with and a special train was made up
10 take the prisoner 70 Montreal Fri
day night. A great crowd collected
about the station where Thaw was
confined and IL was not until o'clock
that IL became known that he might
remain here several days because the
writ is not returnable until Sept. Is.
There were cheers when the writ
arrived and more cheers whenever
Thaw appeared at the window of the
detention room. When the special /
train pulled out for Montreal with !
out Thaw aboard there were cries of
disappointment then more cheering |
when the news got abroad that for
Thaw the new move meant ten days !
delay.
Blocks Deportation.
Not only by the writ secured in
Montreal but by the action Of his at
torneys on appeal did Thaw Friday
block his deportation. In addition
hn r1p hT I'm -1af Il cres !
that his old enemy. William Travers
Jerome. had been arrested charged
with gambling.
If ever little town produced
"s4nsatiOns". COaticOok did Friday. |
First came JerOme's arrest and re-
lease on bail, on a charge that he had |
played poker Thursday on railroad |
property with some newspapermen. |
Then came word that Thaw's lawyers |
had obtained in Montreal. the writ /
demanding his production in court |
there.
Meantime the special board of in |
quiry ordered Thaw's deportation 20 !
Vermont under two clauses Of the i'm |
migration act. namely, that H. had !
entered Canada by stealth and had !
within five years been an inmate OF |
an institution for the insane From |
both these decisions Thaw's lawyers |
appealed.
Charter Special Train.
The immigration officers. headed by |
i. Blake Robertson, were pOwerless, |
and Thaw remained in the detention !
room over the Grand Trunk railway |
station. Finally the Thaw lawyers in |
Montreal. ]. y. Greenshields and y. !
X. LaFlamme, chartered a special !
train and came here with the writ /
itself. serving IL this evening.
Jerome's arrest was due 10 two !
causes. and was not prompted in any /
way by the Thaw lawyers. One and /
all they expressed indignation at the |
move and said they were ready to aid /
him. What the arrest really signihed !
was the state Of public opinion here |
as decidedly pro-Thaw and more de- |
Cidedly anti-Jerome In the second !
place there is a split in the town !
council over the action of Chief of |
Police John BoudreaU. Thaw's orig |
inal CaptOr. and subsequent petitioner |
for the writ of habeas corpus which |
forced Thaw out of jail at Sher- |
brooke into the hands OF :he immi-
grafton authorities.
Some of the aldermen contend that /
Boudreau was Influenced and acted 1
unwisely in the habeas corpus mat
ter and should resign. Among his
opponents is A. A. Hopkins. chair
man of the police committee of the
council. Hopkins employs in his grist
mill Milford Aldrich, the complain
ant against jerome. Aldr1Cn SAYS ne
acted as Jealous citizen and his
contention was sustained by ~ G..
Hanson. joint crown prosecutor. who
caused the warrant 10 he issued.
Shocked at jerome.
I'VE were shocked" said Hanson.
Ito see Mr.. Jerome playing cards for
money in public and IL was our duty
10 arrest him. Little children saw
him and were talking about il. We
have never had another arrest of its
kind here II Jerome tries 90 leave
this Jurisdiction ne viii he arrested"
Mr.. Jerome left town in his auto
mobile Friday afternoon. It was eX-
planned that he had gone for a ride"
His case is set for hearing before a
magistrate Saturday morning Pun
ishment on conviction of gam bling
on railroad property may range. at
the discretion OF the court, from a
fine, amount unspecihed. TO prison
sentence. the maximum OF which Is
one year.
In finding Thaw subject 10 dep0r-
tation-a decision which was rem
dered after O'Clock Friday after
noon-the board Of inquiry made this
announcement:
This Is 10 certify that Harry X.
Thaw OF the United States OF Amer
lea. a person who entered Canada at
the international boundary line be-
tween the state of Vermont and the
province Of quebec, on or about the
isth Of August 1919. has been ex-