Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-20
CAN HE BE EXTRApiTED?

Sherbrooke, Que, Aug. 19.-Harry
Thaw, whose spectacular flight from
the New York State Hospital for the
Criminal Insane at Matteawan ended,
today, with his arrest at Coatieook.
may be sent back to New York on
either of two grounds namely:
First-Through deportation proceed
ings begun under that section of the
Dominion law which reads as follows:
No immigrant shall be permitted
to land in Canada who is feeble
minded an idiot or epileptic, or who
IS insane or who has had an attack of
insanity within five years; nor shall
any immigrant be so landed who is
deaf and dumb or blind or infirm UNI
less he belongs to a family accom-
panying him or already in Canada
which gives security satisfactory to
the minister and in conformity with
the regulations in that behalf for his
permanent support if admitted to
Canada
Second-Through eXtradition proceed
ings, instituted by the state of New
York and conducted by the proper
federal authorities of the United
States on a warrant for Thaw S arrest
charging him with bribery he cannot
be extradited on the warrant already
issued in New York for his arrest on
charge of conspiracy. in the opinion
| of the authorities, because existent
treaties between the United States
| and Great Britain deal only with thai
brand of conspiracy relating to revolt
against the master of a ship on the
| high seas. A new warrant, charging
bribery, the authorities believe, woult
have TO be sworn out against him.
| There is, of course. possibility tina
| Canada will not deport him and VII
decline to honor an eXtradition reuui
sition issued by the United States TT
| these possibilities, the wealthy slayer
of Stanford White addressed his at
tention and that of his counsel. to-
night, preparatory to a hearing ia
his case set for tomorrow.
Thaw frankly admitted his identity
when first detected. yet offered to bet
the constable that he wasn't Thaw
when arrested. He told the deputy
sheriff who caused his arrest that he
was Thaw, but stubbornly resisted
the suggestion as to his identity while
in the Jail at Coaticook, only to break
down in the end, aeknowledg his
name and sending dispatches which
| riveted the already certain Identified
ton. These kilograms We're addressed
to Mrs. Mary Thaw, his mother; tc
Roger O'Mara, the Thaw family de
tective; and others who have played
leading rolls in his attempts to OBJ
tain liberty by legal means.
| Identification on Train.
The keen eye and wit of a rural deputy
| sheriff enmeshed Thaw once more in tn,
| processes of the law and while the craci
| detectives of Eastern cities We're seek
| ing the fugitive, the village constable
| here took him into custody.
| Burleigh II. Kelsea, deputy sheriff o
Coos county, New Hampshire, boarded
| Maine Central train at Lancaster, las
night, and sat down in the smoker t.
read his paper. He was well on his wa.
| to Colehrook, his home, when he hear,
| the conversation of men in the seat be
| hind him. They We're asking one anoth
| err the name of the county seat of tn
| county through which they We're passing
| None of them knew. a we'll built NAL
! of erect figure, whose dark hair wa
| slightly sprinkled with gray and int
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