The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-20
WILL FIGHT
EXTRAD|TION
Harry Thaw is Being Held by
Canadian Authorities ut
SherbrO0ke
MAY BE SENT BACK
TO NEW HAMPSHIRE
Prisoner Claims He Was Merely Pass
ing Through Canada on His Way to
Detroit-Two Men Arrested with
ThaW Were Liberated.

S'pSN%
Thaw Were Liberated
SIIERBROOKE, Quebec, August 20
Harry X. Thaw, halted in his flight
from the state hospital for the criminal
insane at Matteawan, y. Y, by arrest
yesterday 1T the village Of St Hermen-
igilde de Garford, just over the inter
national line in Canada from New
Hampshire, prepared in his cell in the
county jail in this city last
night to fight against being sent back
to the United States. Thaw faces de-
portatiom on the ground that he is an
undesirable alien, and extradition on
warrant charging him with bribery.
The warrant already issued in New
York state for has arrest on charge
OF conspiracy viii not suffice to extra
dite him, Ia the opinion Of Sherbfooke
authorities. These authorities received
word last night that the district attor-
neN Of HUtehesS county. i'm which Mat
teaWan IL located, was en- his way to
Sherbrooke prepared to swear TO
warrant charging ThaW with bribery
an cXtraditablc offenSe-if necessary
In his own defense Thaw claims that
he was merely passing through Canada
on his way to Detroit when his pas
sage was interrupted by arrest lie ex-
hibitcd what he claimed to be trauspor-
tation TO Detroit in support Of his
claim, and cited tho case Of Jack John
son to bear out his contention that ne
cannot be sent back to the Uuited
States by the Canadian authorities so
long as he is simply passing through
the country and intends to 20 beyond
its borders.
District Attorney Conger of Dutchcss
county, y. Y, it is understood mt Sher-
brooke, wants Thaw ordered dcported.
lie wants Thaw r>turned to the United
States over that part Of the interna-
tlouai line touched by the state of New
York. Thaw came into the Dominion
from New Hampshire, however. and if
custom is followed, he would 90 back
to New Hampshire. The Canadian inn
migration department at Ottawa wired
the Sherbrooke chief of police yester-
day afternoon to hold Thaw under the
immigration act. indicating that steps
VIII be taken to deport him. This
the information that the department
had sent two inspectors to Sherbrooke
with instructions to watch the case ana
institute proceedings to deport Thaw
back under the clause. OF the act deal
ing with prohibited persons.
At Coaticook, where Thaw was Iodg-
ed in the lookup Immediately after his
arrest, he engaged a local lawyer. Thaw
=
Peace Dupuis The Justice read to him
an indictment charging him with hay
ing uulawfully escaped from Mattea-
wan and without permitting a plea re
manded him to the Jail at Sherbrooke
for a hearing this morning. Two men
were arrested with Thaw, but liberated
later at Coaticook. They are believed
to be a party Of five confederates who
manned the two automobiles used by
Thaw in his escape from Matteawan.
The two men refused to give their
names or say anything about them
selves. They followed Thaw to Sher-
brooke from CoatiCook, and remained
in town over night.
w l.. Shurtletf, the Coaticook lawyer
| retained by Thaw, denounced the hear
ing before Justice Dupuis as unfair
and said that he would apply this
morning for a writ of habcas corpus for
| Thaw prior to the hearing before the
cxtradition commissioner. Should the
writ be refused, Mr. Shurtlcff said he
would ask for an appeal from the jus
tice s decision. There is every indica-
/ tion that Thaw intends to write into
the Jurisprudence of the Dominion a
record of a bitterly contested fight
against eXtradition, deportation or
/ both.
From his cell in the county Jail last
night Thaw sent out to the newspaper
men statement under this caption,
/ typewritten in capitals: & No one has
contcnded that for two years nearly
| that Thaw has been in the Tombs he
has been insane. There is no evidence
Of delusion in the slightest degree on
his part. Is it anything crazy to take
a pistol to defend himself against a
man who calls you and
threatens to kill you before morning.? -
The statement itself was a printed
synopsis of District Attorney Jerome s
speech-or purpoted to be such-to the
80, 1908, for the murder of Stanford
White. At the end of the printed syn
opsis was a statement by Mr.. ShurtleH.
1t read as follows: = Mr.. Thaw has re-
quested me to thank the people for
their kindness and strong feeling of
fair play The remarks of Attorney
jerome, the prosecuting attorney, who