Arizona republican., 1913-09-04
Harry Thaw Glvem Un1Ounted Freedom
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ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcHl

l ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH l COMTICOOK, Sept. 3-Harry Ken dan Thaw, pried out of Sherbrooke
 jail by a writ of habeas corpus, ob- i tained by a coup by William Travers l Jerome, enjoyed three minutes of Iib- i erty this afternoon and was then seized by the Dominion immigration authorities and hustled by automobile to this little town, where tonight he paced the floor of the immigrati ton detention room. Tomorrow morning a special board of inquiry will sit in his case. and by night he may be thrust across tbe Vermont border as an un- desirable alien.
 His lawyers have planned no proced- ure to resist eXtradition to New York, and the belief is current tonight that before many hours Thaw win be back in MatteaWan asylum for the crim- inal insane, from which he escaped on Sunday, August r.
 The beginning of the end of Thaw's refuge in Canada came with dra- matic sWiftness. The writ of habeas corpus. sued out last Saturday at the direction of Jerome, with John BOr- dreau. chief of police of this village as petitioner, was sustained at 2:45
 
 Hutchinson, superior judge of the dis trict of St Francis, sitting in cham bers in Sherbrooke- Stolid, pallid and numb. Thaw sat not five feet from the judge as he read his decision. When, in the very last paragraph. the court declared him a free man, whether he desired his liberty or not. ThaW seemed to crumple up on the lounge where he sat. A cigar stump fell from his left hand and scattered the ashes on the floor, and from his right hand fluttered two gay bits of ribbon child had given him.
 But he did not rise, and w. K. Me Keown, of his counsel. leaned over and batting him on the shoulder, whispered. Thaw raised his big, star ing eyes and stood up. The immigra- tion officers in the room, headed by E. Blake Robertson, assistant superin- | tendent moved near him; then Thaw l began slowly to move to the door
 At the threshold Robertson said: 1 Come with us, Mir. Thaw.'
 Without word except a hoarse l good bye to the reporters, Thaw 1 obeyed. Five minutes later a gray | roadster streaked away from the court 1 house Tn the back seat was Thaw l He had not been given time to pack | his scanty belongings and voluminous | correspondence in his cell. In an hour | he was in Comticook. None but his | counsel are allowed to see him.
 w. L. ShurtIeff, the first of Thaw's l counsel to arrive a CoaticOok, issued | statement. If they have doctors 1 ready to pronounce Thaw insane, as am informed they have, there is lit !! tie hope of preventing his immediate ryx frra Ia1i will find way to get the case into court | and will have good chance to prove l that the immigration act is uncon- i stitutiOnal on the ground that it is i inconsistent with the Ashburton 1 treaty. But if the authorities at l Ottawa are determined to send Thaw | back, as they seem to be, I doubt l very much whether they will pay any l attention to any writ of prohibition i I might obtain"
 Late tonight Thaw's counsel issued | the following statement: There | seems to be disposition at the | present time to invoke all the clauses | of the immigration act against Thaw 1 It was understood at the beginning | that he would be deported, if at an | on account of having entered Canada l by stealth But now it is under 1 stood that the matter of his mental 1 condition will be inquired into. If | this is done very likely they will | take away from him the right of 1 appeal which it has been considered 1 up to the present time. he had. In | this case, the end will come sudden | ly. and he will be deported at Once."
 Thaw's chief counsel, J. N. Green | shields a Montreal millionaire, was | not present when the writ was sus | tained Tonight it is said, he is hur rying here to make a last desperate | stand.
 Charles D. White, already here, is 1 discouraged and pessimistic. Tt looks l as if they were going to railroad l him." he said. Those higher up have apparently made up their minds"
 Jerome had not a word to say. 1 As if divinirg in advance that Thaw l would be forced out of Sherbroolle l jail, Jerome preceded him here and 1 was gazing down the roadway when | the car bearing Thaw, hove in sight.
 the team again a pennant winner | was demonstrated today when he | contracted with Carrigan to continue |