The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-23
THAW RESTLESS
AND EXC|TABLE
Actions So Erratic That Cover
nor of Jail Pronounces
Him Queer"
WANTS TO AID BARNUM
Exonerates Aged Matteawan
Guard of Completely in
His Escape.
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Sherprooke. Que. August 22.-"Tell
them to release Barnum. He is inno-
cent OF any attempt to aid me to es-
cape. i wouldn't have harm come to
that poor old fellow for anything in the
world"
Ihis was the message sent out by
marry Thaw to-day when he learned
mat Howard II. Barnum, guardian of
the gate through which the slayer of
STANFORD White made his dash for lib
erty iast Sunday morning, is in tight
position because of the charge brought
against him of conniving at his escap pe
nave wired to my attorney at
Newburgh, Mr.. Van AIMEE. to defend
Mr. Barnum and do everything possible
Tor nm. said Thaw. Then he added
excitedly:
He is innocent. He knew nothing
OF my plans. 1t is a criminal conspiracy
70 seek thus to ruin his reputation"
Thaw was so excitable and restless
to-day that Governor LaForce. jailer in
the picturesque little county detention
ary' who had steadily maintained a be-
ilef in Thaw's sanity, shook his head
and remarked in French:
He Is certainly queer. He has spells
that make him unlike other people,"
Sends Frantic Calls.
dozen times during the day the
prisoner sent frantic calls for various
newspaper men whom he has known in
the past. They drove up the hill to
jail in the picturesque fiacres which the
townspeople use to transact every bit
OF business, and when they arrived
Ihaw would either send down word
that he had nothing to say or see them
and ask them to lay particular stress
upon some new legal point which he
had mulled out
Thaws hair stood on end; his clothes
were disheveled, his eyes were glarine
ana his manner nervous. He has de-
cided that the real story of his present
rredicament cannot be told until Je-
rome's address to the jury in the 1906
trial is printed in full. When told that
this is not OF news value he pounds
upon the table with his fist, begins to
swear and then begs his auditors par
DON
He summoned his attorneys to the
jail upon every preteXt, and also de-
livered many messages to two agents
who have arrived He made volumi-
nous notes upon his case and at
tempted to instruct his counsel. all of
whom are eminent advocates upon
points of Canadian Jurisprudence. AS
result Of Thaw's actions, one of his
counsel is said tonight to be on the
point Of withdrawing from the case
Il am fully conversant with every
possibility of the situation" said Thaw
to the correspondent. Il shall go free
eventually, though 1t may take some
time. l do~not consider that II will be
defeat that 1 am deported into New
Hampshire or Vermont, but hope first
to force the immigration and New York
state authorities to prove that / am
insane"
DeIvinR Into StatuteH.
Thaws counsel are spending sixteen
hours day delving into the Canadian
statutes to secure some peg upon which
they might hang their contention that
he must be proven insane in Canada.
In the Canadian imm igration act 1t Is
declared that idiots, imbeciles. feeble
minded persons and persons who have
been insane within five years previous
are subject to deportation 1t Is not
specifically stated that persons that
have been inmates of insane asylums
arc subject to deportation. 1t will be
the contention OF Thaw's lawyers that
and that anywhere else in the world
it must be proven that he is insane.
IF Thaw is deported to New York
State tho immigration act will have
been stretched to impinge upon the ex-
tradition treaty" said one OF Thaw's
lawyers Tonight. THE immigration
laws were enacted for the protection
of Canada--the extradition laws to pro-
tect other countries.
Tho New York authorities did not
come here to protect Canada. but to
take Thaw hack to New York State
to serve n sentence in,poscd upon him
by a Supreme Court. justice OF the
State Of New York.
THE attitude OF the New York au-
thorities In seeking to use the extra
dition treaty to aid them In deporta-
tion has turned sentiment in Canada
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