Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-20
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Ottawa, Ont, Aug. 19.-Harry K.
Thaw will be deported from Canada
under the present plans of the Cana
dian immigration department, because
within the meaning of the Canadian
immigration act he is regarded as a
Prohibited person"
If custom is followed he will be sent
back to New Hampshire, from which
state he entered the Dominion.
1t was late, this afternoon, when til,
department WAS officially notified OF
| Thaw's apprehension, and Immediately
inspectors Reynolds and Williams
were dispatched to Sherbrook, with in
struetions to watch the case and in
i stltute proceedings to the above men
! toned end.
The department wired, this after
noon. TO the chief Of police at Sher-
brooke to hold Thaw under the immi-
grafton act. The act seems plain il
regard to Thaw's case. There are GER
| tain classes who under Section 40 arr
not eligible to enter Canada or who i
they succeed in doing SO, are not per
mitted to remain. The law states tina
| idiots, imbeciles, insane people oil
erstwhile criminals, shall not enter the
country and if they do succeed in
Guiding the officers of the immigration
! department., they shall be deported
| forthwith.
There is an exception, however, ane
| ii is interesting to note that the Negro
pugilist Jack Johnson recently man
aged to pass through Canada under
ole x4rh ha n
the prohibited class who enters Cana
da, carrying with him through trans
portation to another ctLatry, may no
1 have his passage impedetf.--
Information received here, does no
say whether Thaw has taken the pre-
caution of securing such transporta
ton, though following so closely OF
the Johnson affair, 1t is difficult to SCI
| how his legal advisers could have
overlooked this contingency.
At the justice department., grave doup
| is expressed as to the power of tn
courts to grant extradition, under whicl
authority Thaw has evidently been held
In the treaty between Great Britain an,
| the United States escape from an asylum
is not mentioned as an extraditable of
fence The department, however, unhes
| itatingly expressed the opinion that tn
case comes under the immigration act.
Questions of the legality of Thaw's ar
| rest do not conflict with any action un
| der the immigration act. Deportation
| proceedings are very simple. They mere
| ly consist in arresting the object of de
| portation and If there is sufficient evi
| denee as to his identity and as to hi
| disability to enter the country under TIL
! limitations of the law, he is simply es
corted across the border to point
miles in the interior. The custom is
remove him through the port and int
the state by which he entered after tn
officers of the United States government
have been notified under reciprocit
| agreement between the United State
and Canada, in advance. 1t Is Hkel
/ that Thaw ill be sent back to Ne
! Hampshire.
Objections to deportation proceeding
have rarely succeeded as prohibited in
| migrants have not. under the act, the oil
i portunity of resisting the inspectors
the immigration department. Once Tina
is landed back over the border, it wi
i be matter of domestice concern to Il
i United States authorities as to how
will further be dealt with.