The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-05
Fugitive Fails in Endeavor to
Prove He Entered Canada
as a Tourist, and Insanity
Question Comes Up.
LAWYERS MAKING
HOPELESS FIGHT
Belief Is General in Coaticook
That Slayer of Stanford
White Will Be Escorted
to the Border Today.

COATICOOK, Que, Sept. 4.-Harry
K. Thaw was not "railroadedO across
the border by the immigration authori-
ties today as his counsel had predicted.
A special board of inquiry sat on his
case from 10 clock in the morning un-
til late this afternoon, and then ad.
journed until half past nine clock to-
morrow morning, when the prisoner will
be recalled.
Thaw was on the stand most Of the
day and made a. good witness. Toward
the close of the afternoon session his
lnquisitors gradually worked into the
question of his sanity, and though his
counsel violently objected it was of no
avail and this line of interrogation will
be taken up again tomorrow.
Loses Two Points.
Though staving off deportation for
the day, Thaw lost in two particulars.
His lawyers were denied writ of pro.
hibition by Superior Judge Matthew
Hutchinson at Sherbrooke, the same
Judge who sustained the writ of habeas
corpus which cast Thaw out Of the
Sherbrooke Jail yesterday, and he fail.
ed to establish before the board the
contention that he had entered Canada
as tourist, and like "Jack' johnson
should be allowed to continue to his
destination. He could produce no
through ticket to any point outside Can,
ada. There was in his possession a
ticket to Detroit, but unfortunately for
Thaw it had been purchased at Coat
cook.
Unable to show that he had come into
the Dominion at any recognized port
Of entry, Thaw practically was convict
ed of entering by stealth, and on this
charge alone can he be deported.
No Appeal From Insanity.
But on this charge could he apepal to
| the minister Of the interior, while no
appeal would lie should he be found in
sane at the present time or to have been
| in an insane asylum within five years.
| If found Of unsound mind now it is
within the discretion of the board to
deport Thaw direct to the New York
state line, possibly to Rouse IS point,
This would mean swift and certain re-
| turn to Natteawan. Conviction on eth
er of the other two charges would mean
deportation to Vermont.
William Travers Jerome spent an
impatient day waiting for something
to happen. AS chief Of the New
York forces he hoped to have Thaw
across the border tonight. His auto
mobile stood all day near the Grand
Trunk railway station, i'll the second
story of which Thaw is held, and all
| day Jerome strode up and down the
station platform. Twenty other auto
mobiles were ready for the dash to the
line, nine miles away.
Resents Questions.
Thaw resented keenly the questions
taken up, he contended, he should be
allowed to have alienists present. Two
physicians for the immigration authori
ties, Beaugard and Beauchamp, were
present,
When asked point blank if he was
sane or insane when he killed Stan
ford White, Thaw quoted, with a re-
markable show of memory. from the
conflicting opinions Of the many
alienists identified with his case, and
laconicalv suggested that the board
take its choice. He bridled when
asked about his mothers condition
lust prior to his birth. and said that
perhaps she was better qualified &c
answer.
Thaw's lawyers, despairing of de
fenting deportation, have begun tt
make plans for resisting extraditior
in Vermont Counsel have been re
tained there, it is understood and un
less Thnw Is sent to the New York
state line the lawyers hope to fight or
in the states
Looking for Loophole.
IT. r. F.. McIunes of Ottawa, one OF
the fathers of the immigration law
ioinod the group of Thaw lawyers to
day From now OH he will seek Z,
6nd a loophole in the law he hclpe,
to create.
The belief was general tonight thai
Thaw would be deported tomorrow. !.
r. lie Marechel, counsel for the immi
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