The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-08-27
THAW SAYS HE'S
WITHOUT FEAR
.alaIieawan Holds No To.
TOrs For PittSburg
mas MAPPED OUT LEGAL PLAN
Possible That Prisoner Will Be Fiqht
ing For Freedom in Canada Fol
Long Time--Vermont May Get Him.

Behind an iron grilled window o.
The Sherbrooke (Quebec) Jail Harry
Thaw fretted and fumed and talked err
ratically. He is still confident in him.
self and exclaimed more than once:
81 am not afraid of Matteawan.
have braved the death chair twice.
There is nothing to fear"
Thaw is absolutely certain of his
sanity. He remembered the word
reasonable" and used it a hundred
times.
1t was reasonable, he thought to
map out campaign of publicity. In
doing so he spent several hours.
There remains now no doubt as to
the legal course that Thaw is going
to follow. The habeas corpus writ
will be argued Wednesday and ac-
cording to opinion he will be delivered
over to the Canadian immigration
authorities. An inquiry board of the
immigration department will decide
whether he is guilty of the charge that
he is an escaped lunatic and entered
Canada by stealth.
Should that board decide to keep
him his attorneys will appeal to the
minister of the interior. This appeal
would probably result in prolonged
investigation into the claims of free
dom in Canada.
In the end if he is put across the
border in any state outside of New
York there will follow the fight
against extradition to New York. But
the immigration inquiry will probably
take time.
There is cnly the remotest chance
that Thaw will be shipped to Vermont
on short notice. 1t is to prevent just
this that some of the best lawyers in
Canada have been retained for him.
Thaw has outlined his case and has
a very clear grip of it. He has in.
structed his lawyers to keep him in
Canada as long as possible and to OBJ.
tain freedom for him here if they can.
He is convinced that public opinion
is going to be powerful factor in his
fate whether in Vermont or Canada
and has set out to create sympathy
for himself and convey the impression
that he has been the victim of his
enemies.
He was much concerned lest the
people should think he is not person
ally in charge of his case. at must
be made clear" he asserted, that |
have been in charge of it all along 1t
must be understood as well that my
lawyers are in accord with me-"
George Lauder Carnegie, Thaws
brother-in-law, explained in a lengthy
interview just what the family attitude
toward Harry is. The family is going
to stick by him.
"My brother-in-law escaped from
Matteawan so that he could get back
to Pittsburg, not South America or
any place outside the United States"
said Mr.. Carnegie.
He declared that Harry could not
get a square deal in New York.
I'VE are all delighted" he con.
tinued, that he made his escape A
break for liberty was the only re.
source left to him. He knew it; we
knew it; everybody knew it."
Someone asked: "Will Thaw stick
by the five men who escaped?"
"Yes," and he spoke emphaticaliy.
What is more the family will stick
by them in so far as possible. We
don't consider that they did anything
wrong in giving liberty to a man who
has every right to it.
"But you must remember that
Harry, if his sanity is proved, will
have plenty of money. 1t won't be
necessary for his family to give aid.
We are ready to, however, and don't
hesitate to say it.
"There is one thing want thorough.
ly understood. Harry Thaw's family
was not cOgnizant of his intention to
escape. Perhaps some of us had come
to hope that he would engineer the
thing. | won't say that is not true,
but shall say that no one ever talked
about such matter with him"
Does the Thaw family really think
that Thaw is sane?"
"That question is absurd, sir. Don't
you know that we would be the last
people to want him to get out of Mat
teawan or any other asylum il we
thought him insane? Do you think
That we would take the chance OF
Harry doing an act of violence and
the family to go through an
other seven years Ike the last have
been? Let the public think of that.
'I'm going back to New York and
Mrs. Carnegie is going with me. Harry
is to take entire charge of his own
case here in Canada. Isn't that a
proof of his family's belief in his
sanity?"
1t leaked out that Thaws coming
to Canada was all a trick of fate and
not at all according to the planned
fight. BY some underground channel
Thaw had been in secret communica.
tion with the leader Of the men who
aided him in his escape for months &C.
cording to one of Thaws attorneys.
Shortly b,fore the date set for the
dash and b, ore the route to be fol
lowed had teen clearly determined
then that !, was to end at Pittsburg
Vhaw'S cnb--el of communication was
shut on. so the day came last sun