The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-09-05
Spent an Hour Behind the Bars After
Being Arrested for Playtss
Poker in an Au-
tomobIle.
AND HE LOST 50 CENTS
Was Caught In the Act by Citizen Who
Filed the information
Against the
Lawyer.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
COATICoOK, Que, Sept. 5.-Wm.
Traverse Jerome, former district at
torney and Nemisis OF Harry x. Thaw
was arrested today by a Canadian po-
liceman on charge Of gambling alfs
was placed in jail incommunicato.
The special deputy attorney general
sent to Canada by New York state to
regain possession of Thaw was led
through the streets with hostile,
hooting, yelling, jeering mob of men
and boys at his heels and was locked
up in the same cell that Thaw occu-
pied when he was arrested on Can
adian soil. While Jerome paced up
and down his cell, not allowed to re-
ceive visitors or to talk to newspaper
men, Dr.. Kieb. superintendent of the
asylum at Matteawan from which
Thaw escaped almost three weeks ago.
was on the long distance telephone in
communication with U. s. Consul Dan
iels at Sherbrooke in an effort to
bring about Jerome's release. In the
meantime the board of inquiry was sit
ting on Thaw's deportation case. but
nobody outside the lawyers and Thaw
was paying the slightest attention to
it.
! While waiting with their high pow,
cred automobiles yesterday hoping to
be able to start home with Ihaw, the
/ New York state officials and some
newspaper men started game o.
poker in Jerome's gray car. They
played openly and made no attempt te
conceal their actions. A crown o1
Coaticook men and boys gathered
about and many of them Nere openly
hostile to the New Yorkers. The towr
is almost wholly in sympathy witt
4 Thaw
Milford Aldridge, citizen, went t.
the police and told them that the play
ers were gambling, playing poker 70,
money. He said he saw money passed
and Aldridge willingly swore to tht
complaint and early today Policeman
John Andrews walked into the Coaki
cook house where Jerome was in th'
lobby, surrounded by newsps - p,rn
The policemen presented warrant Il
/ Jerome and the New Yorker read |
through Without wo1N OF commen
/ and betraying neither surprise or an
ger, Jerome told the policemen he wa
ready to go with him and they starte'
4 from the hotel Like wild fire th
news spread that Jerome was unde
arrest. A crowd quickly surrounde'
officer and prisoner, laughing an
jeering at him. The former district al
torney rushed after the crowd an
begged the officer to allow Jerome t
give bail but the policeman was power
less to do anything but take the ma
to the lookup. During the march t
Jail Jerome did not say word. He re
fused to comment on his arrest or t
say whether or not he played poke
for money. After he was locked~lp i
Thaws' former cell, he wss not allow
ed to talk.
After Jerome was in jail almost a
hour, his friends found Magistrate M
Kee, who admitted Jerome to bail. A
torney verrett, assisting the Me-
York state authorities said that tn
case doubtless would be adjourned t
give Jerome an opportunity to fulif
his mission to Canada should the In
migration officials depors Thaw.
Jerome and Thaw were not in th
: same Jail at the same time as TEay
now held as an immigrant, was m tn
detention room at the railway static
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