Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-09-05
THAW LAWYERS
WIN FIRST FIGHT
Habeas Corpus Dropped and
Slayer Stays in Jail
SPECTATORS REPRIMkHDED
When New York Forces Were Ruieo
Out of Case Thousands Cheereo
Thaw and Pandemonium Reigned.

Harry Kendall Thaw, the MatteaWan
fugitive, who is fighting deportation
from Canada, was a decided Victory
in Sherbrooke when Judge Glo5ensky
granted the plea of Thaw's lawyers LUZ
a continuance oil the habeas corpus
writ anu remanded him to Jail linden
nitely, to be dealt with according 10
the law"
The court ruled that Canadian coun-
sci representing New York state could
take no part in the proceedings. An
effort on the part of the New fork
forces later 10 persuade Magistrate
Dupuis, OF Coaticook, who originally
held Tnaw for court, 10 consider mo-
lions to quash the charge on Whlch
Thaw was held were met with failure,
the ma gistrate declining TO act. ThaW
will . obably come up for trial by jury
on Oct. II.
Every nook and corner of the court
room, Jury box and the aisles were
iamracl. Women, most of them we'll
dressed. made UP at least third or
~. ,nrong At the back Of the room
they we're ranged in tiers, standing on
chairs. Entrances and exits were al
most impassaDle.
Thaw sat beside Louis st. Laurent,
counsel for gentleman Roger"
Thompson, the chauffeur who drove
the black car in the MatteaWan del1V-
cry. The prisoner laughed and joked
with st. Laurent and paid not the
slightest attention to the spectators.
Judge Globensky, taking his seat,
denounced the forenoon outbreak as
the most disgraceful scene" he had
ever witnessed and threatened a jail
sentence to any one repeating such
demonstration. He made this an
nouncement first in French, then in
English. Almost Immediately after
ward he granted the plea for discon-
tinuance of the habeas corpus writ and
remanded Thaw to Jail. This was
complete victory for the ThaW law
yers.
Defeated in their first court Skin
mish, the New York forces, through
counsel, endeavored to persuade Mag
istrate Dupuis, of Coaticook, who had
originally held Thaw, to hold court and
consider motions to quash the charge
on which TAaw is held. This would
ring Thaw within the grasp Of the
immigration authorities. Duplus de-
clined and would not count enance an
other magistrate sitting in his place.
Judge G'obensky's refusal to enter
tain the objections of Hector Verret,
representing New York, was greeted
with wild outburgt Of cheering by a
thousand Canadian spectators. ThaW,
rising, bowed in acknowledge ent.
"Hooray for the British flag! Hoofa
for Harry Thaw!" shrieked men an
women, standing on chairs, wav:p
handkerchiefs, parasols and has.
Thaw bowed three tin:e9, Ike
stage star taking a curtain call eefn'
a sympathetic audience. His cher
were distendedhis; ,gtaociu eta IL
were flushed and his biz Lro"n cYr
shone, but he maintained his c,.:n.,-
sure.
During this scene in the court r@o
men and women. struggling o WA
over chairs and benches II shake
hand CT Thaw,. swept aside roHrf
tendants anJ uniformed Dom:nirn II
lice, and swarmed up to The Judge
bench. But Thaw eludcd them ali
slipped into an ante.room used as l.
press headquarters. Ten minutes late;
he was on his way back to tho She"
brooke jail 4 great crowd on the cour
house steps cheered again as he de.
scended.