The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
Thaw'S Lawyers Start Habeas
Corpus Proceedings.
On Ground That He Is Being
Illegally Held.
WAS BROKE when ARRESTED
Heir to Millions Had Only a
Few Cents.
He BOrrOWs Enough to Buy a
New Necktie.

Sherbrookc. Aug. 2O.-ApplicatiOn
for IL writ of habcas corpus requiring
the presence of Harry x. Thaw in the
superior court at Sherbrooke was
granted by Judge Globensky in MS
chambers this afternoon. The writ Is
PeturnabIe tomorrow.
Sherbrooke. Aug. 2O.-Application
for writ of habeas corpus demanding
the immediate release of Harry II.
Thaw. fugitive slayer of Stanford
White. was submitted this afternoon
to Judge Globensky in the superior
court at Upperbrook by Charles D.
White. a lawyer retained by telegraph
over night by the Thaw family This
move. regarded at first as d formality
to bring Thaw into court after his ar
rest yesterday as a fugitive from Mat
teawan. was subsequently explained
bv his counsel as being more signifi-
cant. They cOntended he has been de
tained illegally and through habeaS
corpus should be set free at once.
Meanwhile Thaw remained a Sc
cluded prisoner in the SherbrOoke jail
Cautioned by his family, he refused to
discuss his case. Only his lawyer saw
him. From the hospital ward of the
prison, with two guards watching hlm,
he sent out Tor CIGARS lTeSn 1liISh anu
delicacies, but he refused steadfastly
to receive interviewers.
Sherbrooke takes the presence of its
notorious prisoner calmly Perhaps
200 persons, a score of them women,
gathered in the courtroom awaiting
the proceedings. Around the Jail was
only d handful of the curious.
Citizens Are for Him.
Sentiment in Sherbrooke is distinctly
in Thaw's favor. A great crowd which
greeted him at the station when he ar
rived from Coaticook shouted, Let him
go, set him free, he has not done any
thing to US. Give him a chance
There were by count eighteen women
in the court room today. They Were
we'll dressed well hammered and quiet.
The drag in the proceedings got on ev-
rybody's nerves toward IL O'Clock, but
still the judge had not emerged from
his chambers. Thaw's lawyers in the |
meantime We're drawing up their appli- !
ca ton for the habeas corpus writ. !
Thaw persistentIy refuses to discuss his |
since his escape. AS to the
identity of the men with him when ar
rested his lips were sealed. The pair |
We're allowed to go when Thaw was de- |
tanned. 1t was learned today that they |
described themselves at the time as |
Frank Briggen' and DR. Siss." They |
had met Thaw by chance. they said. |
The police here are inclined to believe |
quintet who engineered the escape ac- !
him.
Court Room Crowded.
The supreme court, or, as locally des-
ignated, lie Cour Superieur' was well |
crowded long before the proceedings |
began Thaw's new chief counsel /
Charles D. White, visited the jail ana !
conferred with Thaw and W. L. Shurt-
left the attorney retained at Coaticook j
yesterday. He then announced he /
would apply for writ of habeas cor
pus requiring Thaw's presence in court |
during the arguments for and against !
his deportation. This new move prom
ised to delay matters considerably |
e. Green and d. Neville, representing |
the immigration authorities, arrived J
this forenoon to follow the case
\ man giving the name of Mitchell !
Thompson and believed to be the Roger
Thompson implicated in TAav's escape
was arrested while lettering about the
court house this afternoon.
The man was taken into custody by
Dominion Immigration officers. He is
described as one of the pair with Thaw
when he was arrested near Coaticook /
Hires New Counsel.
Sherbrooke, Aug. 20-Harry K. /
Thaw. fugitive slayer of Stanford |
White, caught by a New Hampshire I
sheriff after his sensational escape /
from Matteawan. spent the night in
the hospital ward in the Jail of this
little border town and this morning
at the urgent telegraphic demands of
his family, retained new counsel to
fight deportation to the United States.
George Lauder Carnegie, his broth
er-in-law, wired during the night that
he was hurrying with Thaw's sister
Margar6e and cautioned Thaw to DELAY
all proceedings if possible pending his
arrival. Meantime Charles D. White
to the Thaw family as
most aStute lawyer,
took charge of the case and at Thaw's
arraignment before a commissioner
this forenoon planned to ask for ad-
journment of the proceedings. An
army of old acquaintances as it were
newspaper men who reported the
the recurring sanity proceed
ings-clamored about Thaw's prison
cell today. One glance was enough.
was Harry Thaw. Thaw-like, he
talked of statements he purposed to is
sue. though for the time he declined
to be interviewed.
He said briefly that he had slept
well.
No Question of Sanity.
The question of insanity was not
in the commitment which
brings Thaw before the immigration
authorities here. He is held merely
as a fugitive from the penitentiary at
Matteawan, where he was confined on
1 criminal charge for life. Thaw
himself was quick to see the chances
'or Eghting deportation on such
ground. for at Matteawan he was
charged with nothing, being held as
unatic, acquitted of the White muir
ier. Along such lines it was expected
lis lawyers would seek to bar depor-
alton to New York state. The immi-
sra ton officials, it was said, were
aware of this loophole in the commit