The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-05

+. lowed by H. Johnston, q FARMER, VINO
drove him over the border and there
/ deserted him. and by Ben Cadieux, al
whose inn at Barford ne stopped late
/ at night.
The questioning UP 70 adjournme emf
at noon all bore on the clause involv
! ing entering Canada by stealth The
point Of insanity was not touched
upon.
Expecting a quick decision and a
dash to the Vermont border with
Thaw, William Travers Jerome paced
UP and down the station latform be-
low the immigration detention room
with his car ready to start on an in
siant's notice.
Runors few about that Thawss law
yers were planning coup by apply :
ing for another writ of prohibition. but
they were impossible of confirming
here. Tdlers swarnned about the build
ing, but only now and then could they
get a glimpse Of Thaw through the
windows.
Counsel for New York state an
nounced this afternoon that Judge
Hutchinson at Sherbrooks had refused
to grant La Flannne of Thaw's counsel,
a writ OF prohibition.
THAW BROUGHT Up POINT.
himself had brought up the point that
his case came under what is known as
the tourists laws in the immigration
act. He contended he was a tourist
passing through Canada and that un-
der section 2, paragraph 4, of the act.
he was exempt from n1olestation.
The board said it would take the
point raised by him under considera-
ton and would render decision when 1t
reconvened.
There was delay in getting the in
quiFy under way. Thaw, becoming i'm
patient. stepped close to window and
let the crowd get sight Of him. He
had on his straw hat and was smoking
a pipe Jerome passed under the
window but did not look up. -Four
dominion police blocked the entrance
to the stairway. A woman came with
flowers for Thaw and was denied adj
nlittance.
Better have your machines ready,
boys" said Jerome to the newspaper
men. I'VE will soon be in Vermont"
The board went into session at 1855.
THAW WAS EXAMINED.
Thaw was the first person examined.
He said that he boarded the train at
Rochester, N. H, and that his objective
several tickets, he said. because his
route was uncertain. He told OF hiring
two farmers to drive him here after
leaving the train. The inquiry was
still going on at IL o'clock.
The board produced its credentials
before formally going into session.
showing that it had been authorized
to deal .ssummarily with the case
THAW UP EARLY.
Harry K. Thaw was UP early today
ready to appear before special board
of inquiry authorized under the do1nin-
ions drastic immi grafton law to order
him. deported should it find that he had
been an inmate of an institution for
the insane or that he had crossed the
border s'by stealth
The scene of the secret hearing was
a tiny Office just Off the immigration
detention room where Thaw spent the
right under guard. r. Blake Robert
son, assistant superintendent of inn
migration, was the presiding officer
Doctors Guerd and Beauchamp were
on hand to examine the prisoner and
DR.. Raymond Kieb, superintendent of
the Matteawan asylum, was held in
readiness to testify as to Thaw's con-
dnement there as the insane slayer of
stanford White.
Thaw's lawyers. somewhat democrat
lied after yesterdays rapid develop
ments, spent the night, exhausted as
they were. in conference All gave it
as their client across the line. IN the
unexplained absence of J. N. Green
shields. of Montreal. recognized as
chief counsel. n. X. La Flamme of
Montreal assumed leadership of the
Thaw forces
Thaw was indignant this morning
when he learned that reports of his
breaking down under the strain had
Keen circulated Although no report
ers were allowed 30 see him, he sent
This word down by a guard, adding
that he had received early today
from his mother saying she |
was on her way here in response to his !
appeal.
William Travers Jerome. whose coup
rried Thaw out of the Sherbrooke Jail |!
where he threatened to remain until
the kings bench passed in October J
said he would not come 10 the hear
ing today unless it was necessary. He !
has with him the almost unmention-
able .Fhaw trial exhibits, together with |
transcripts of Thaw's erratic testimony
at the habeas corpus proceedings in |
New York state. If called upon he !
was ready to submit these as evidence
that Thaw was not a sane man. or if !
sane not a man who should be allowed
to enter the dominion
This morning crowds surrounded the /
Grand Trunk railway station which |
housed the immigration quarters. but /
none could get a glimpse of Thaw |
His room is on the second floor and
he SAT- well back from the barred win /
dows.
Sheriff Hornbeck of Duchess coun-
~, New York, who waited for more !
than week in vain in Sherbrooke,
joined the New York party here today !
to the seizure Of Thaw on
American soil.
II present plans do not miscarry |
Thaw will set foot in the United !
States again not far from Norton |
Mills. Vt ahzoaIt miles from here