Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-08-20
Relatives With Astute Law.
yers HuFrying to Prisoners
Side to Aid in Effort
Against Extradition.
ARRANGEMENT MAY BE
POSTPONED FOR WEEK
Alleged Principal in Lunatio
Conspiracy and Friends at
Present JOckeying to Delay
the Game.
LBy I.easea WIG . Erenrne nrrald. !

lhy Aeaeed Wire To Evening Herald.
sherbr0oke. quebec, Aug. 20. --
Hairy X Thaw. caught by New
Hampshire sherin after his sensa.
tional escape from Matteawan, spent
the night IN the hospital ward In the
jail Of this little border town aud this
morning "a the urgent teleEraphlc de-
mands of his family, retained new
counsel 60 fight deportation tn the
United states.
George Lauder Carnegie. his
brother-in-law. wired during the night
that he was hurrying here with
ThaW's sister. Margaret. and caution
ed Thaw Co delay all proceedings. II
possible, pending his arrival. Mean
time Charles d. white. recommended
TO the Thaw family as sherbrooke's e
most astuto lawyer. took charge OF
the case.
Pr0iTacted conferences today be-
tween three Canadian lawyers retain
ed to oppose Thaw'a deportation 10
the United states indicated that his
preliminary arraignment in court
would be postponed at least until to-
morrow, possliIiy Tor wecs.
No announcement 10 this effect was
made, but Charles y. white. employ
ed overnight to head the Thaw legal
forces. delayed throughout the fore
noon In applying for tho writ OF
habens corpus necessary 10 produce
Thaw IN court. ana az noon an i'm.
portant crowd had wearled Of waiting
for the appearance OF stanford
Whites slayer. later In the day IL
was said Thaw's lawyers would re-
quest that the charges be put over
Decision iu this matter rested with
the supreme judge Glohensky. sent
down here from Montreal To preside
during the so-called long vacation"
OF the court tie is due To return to
Montreal tonight and should he grant
adjournment this might mean "a re-
cess Of a week
This iockeying OF procedure related
solely To the principal charge against
Thaw. that of being fugitive from
Mattcawan other proceedings OF the
immigration authorities were held In
ebeyanco pending the outcome.
sheriff Hornbock uf Dutchess
county, New York whore Matteawan
is located. reached here this afternoon
armed with tho warrant issued at
Poughkeepsie charging Thaw with
conspring with Keeper Barnum aud
iive other men 10 obtain Thaw's re-
lease. The sheriff said he would bide
his time until the superior court had
taken action
Application for writ uf habeas
corpus requiring the presence of Har-
~ X. Thaw In the court here was
granted by Judge alubensky this af-
Htaa. aHuNa "a a. a..
morrow morning.
There Was uo procedure In open
court Thaw's lawyers led by Chnries
- White. submitted the petition 10
the court, then announced that a. had
been granted. Meantime in the court
room restless crowd craned necks
and perspired. only 10 depart IN cha.
grin when the news spread that Thaw
would not appear and that the legal
battle would not hegin until tomor-
row. The Judge did not once ascend
90 the bench lie posed reluctantly
while photographers snapshotted him.
Thnw conferred IN secret with
Counsel and barred himself to Inter
viewers Urgent kilograms from his
family have warned him To keep still
and equally urgent messages 20 his
lawyers have advised them Co play n
waiting game until an outline Of
Thaw's case can be sketohed. In
this regard the pOstpOnement of the
habeas corpus proceedings was re-
garded as point IN Thaw's favor.
District Attorney Conger and sher-
iff llOrnheck of Dutchess county ~
v were In court this afternoon. with
them were several Dominion immi-
grafton officials who plan to detain
Thaw II he IA released on the present
commitment which charges him with
being fugitive from Matteawnn
Sheriff Hornheck. after close scrutiny
Of the self-siyled Mitchell Thompson
arrested today as one of the five whc
aided Thaw Ia escape from the asylum
said that without question the mar
was Roger Thompson OF New York
city