The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-23
"Up Against It." He
Threatens to Tell
All He Knows.
ADMITS THAT HE is
GENTLEMAN ROGER
Sorely in Need of Money. and
Insists That Thaws Must Come
to His Aid to Repay Him for
Sticking to Harry in
His Flight From
Matteawan.
sherbrooko. QUO. August aa.-"oen-

Sherbrooke. Quo. August 22.-''oen-
tleman Roger Thompson, tho New
York chauffeur. held under tho Do
minion immigration laws as having
aided Harry X. Thaw, legally a lu-
natic, to cross the Canadian frontier.
announced from his cell tonight that
he was up against it." and that II
the Thaw family didn't como to his
rescue. he would perhaps. In justice
knows about Thaw's escape from Mat
teawan and thus complicate the pro-
ceedings under which Thaw's lawyers
hope to obtain his release on a writ
of habeas corpus next Wednesday.
Tonight Thompson removed tho
smoked eyeglasses he has worn since
his arrest and openly admitted that the
name Mitchell Thompson" he had
given the authorities was fictitious,
and that in reality he Is Roger Thomp-
son, car salesman and daredevil chauf-
feur, who drove the black machine
which whisked Stanford Whites slay-
er away from Matteawan.
Up to the Thnws.
Sure. I'm Roger Thompson" he said.
Il need money and help now, and it
Is up to the Thaws. was framed
up In getting in this case. and they
ought to stand by me now. I haven't
a cent, and If they admitted me to
bail L couldn't raise the money. Even
II l could, / would be arrested IL 1
crossed the New York State line. It's
rough stuff. The other four fellows
mixed up In the game made their get
away. But l stuck to Thaw to the
finish. and I'm the goat. That's pretty
hard"
What about the details of the es-
cape? he was asked.
Don't ask me-" said Thomp.on ct
hat
Thaw, in cell above "Gentlenen
Roger refused even to admit he had
ever seen him. "Oh. that man?"' he ex-
Claimed. You know, 1 can't talk about
him"
Counsel has been emnIoved +o-
thompson by the Thaw family and n
was through their efforts that hia
raisnment to-day as a violator OF the
immigration laws was postponed until
Friday next His lawyer is I,ouis e.
laurent. OF Quebec. 1t was admitted
py the chauffeur that the Thaws had
e.aineu 81. laurent. and that they ex-
pected him (Thompson) to keen hi,
trap shut" ''
He added grimly that he thought
they ought to do more than give him a
lawyer. ''i'i' q
All they want" he said, "is to keen
iS ease separate from Thaws I wish
hadn't mixed up In it,"
Qunrrels With Attorneys.
Ihaw had quarrel with his attor-
neys to-day. They had warned him to
issue no statements. but he insisted
on talking about what lie described as
an omission on the part Of the news
papers in Canada and the United state.
In not printing in full recent state
ment or his lawyers quoting w. T.
Jerome as saying Thaw was sane.
This omission has outraged the Brit
ism .:,f idea OF fair play" said Thaw.
They believe in a square deal" H.
fidgeted as he spoke. bit his nails to
the quick. and rumpled up a pile of
letters and kilograms on the pine table
In MS cell. On the window sill stood
q oouquet or wild flowers sent him by
an anonymous woman sympathizer.
over the pine table sprawled the rem
nants or meal served by "A local hotel
Ihaw's appetite apparently is good. for
only bits of food remained But T
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