Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-06
Escaped Slayer to Have
Hearing Sept. IS at
Montreal.
CASE IS COMPLICATED
New York Lawyer Gets Con-
tinuanCe on Gambling
Charge.

Montreal, Sept. 6.-Application for
bail will be the next move by the Thaw
lawyers. The legal contingent from
Montreal handling Thaw's case, ac-
companied by Chauffeur Thompson,
who drove the rescue car from Matte
avian, returned on special train this
morning. Assistant superintendent
Roberts of the immigration depart
ment said: "Thaw will be deported.
am sure of that" LaFlamme of the
Thaw counsel said: I'VE have licked
jerome, and there will be no deporta-
ton"
Foreign lawyers, foreign sheriffs,
and foreign bailiffs have hurt the dig
nifty of the British courts in the Thaw
case" said Justice Gervais, one of the
judges who yesterday issued the writ
of habeas corpus prohibiting the i'm
migration authorities from deportlng
Thaw. The British sovereignty is
quite capable of taking care OF any
person who appeals to our sense of
justice" continued his Iordship ct
is not necessary for any lawyer sher-
if, bailiff or other foreign person to
Intervene. The Thaw case will be
threshed out according to its merits/'
Coaticook, Que. Sept. ,6.-Coati-
cook resumed normal state today.
Harry Thaw; deserted by his coun-'
eel, remained in the detention pen.
Thaw may remain a day or a week.
Not until Sept. Is is he 10 appear at
Montreal before the full kings bench
on the appeal side of the writ OF
| habeas corpus obtained by his law
| yers yesterday. 1t is optional with
the immigration authorities 10 move
him at once or keep him here until the
/ las. moment. ~
AS matters stand the cage is more
snarled up than at any time since his
! escape from Matteawan. He was or
dered deported on two reasons. enter
ing the dominion by stealth and hav-
ing been an inmate of an insane
asylum.
| The minister of the interior auto
matically stayed the proceedings.
! Then came the writ OF habeas corpus
/ Montreal. AS a matter of fact the
restraining order was issued prior to
! the time the deportation decision was
returned and it is a question whether
this does not invalidate the finding.
PRISONER SERENADED
! Tr I'll
court hearing and the matter of depor-
tation is now so complex as to make
| forecasts out of the question. Ar
| rival of the writ here last evening on
a special train was greeted with wild
cheering by the crowd around the
station. Thaw's lawyers returned to
Montrea; on the special. The Coati-
| cook band gave a concert beneath
/ Thaw's barred windows last night,
playing in conclusion God Save the
King" while the crowd shouted Three
Cheers for Thaw."
Beacon. N. Y, Sept. 6.-Thc author
tiles at Matteawan asylum have be-
gun the erection of a second fence
with a large gate at the point where
Thaw escaped by dashing out when
the gate opened for a milkman. AS
teams enter the first gate it will be
| locked, then an inner gate opened.
The fences are II feet high with slid
ing gates.
COURT SCORES JEROME.
Coaticook, Que, Sept 6.-William
Travers Jerome, arrested yesterday
charged with gambling, was bitterly
denounced by Justice Mckee in his
courtroom today. The gray bearded
magistrate was indignant when Je-
rome's counsel announced his client
could not be present today, and asked
adjournment of the hearing of the
gambling case.
Il want to say" cried Mckee, bang
ing the table with his fist, that we
intend TO prosecute Jerome to the full
extent of the law. He can't come here
and play card games before our chill.
dren. This may be a suburban town,
but we intend to enforce the laws.
The case is put over until Sept. IL"
A crowd Of 60 idlers stamped their
feet and applauded vociferously the
magistrates TRADE.
Jacob Nicoll, Sherbrooke crown
prosecutor for this district, and as
such the superior of Joint Prosecutor
Hansen, who is prosecuting the Je
rome case, appeared. strangely enough