The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-01-27
THAW At CLIMAX
IN HIS BATTLE
FOR FREEDOM
Matteawan Fugitive Believes lie
Will Triumph This Week
Over Arch Enemy.
SUPREME ARGUMENT IN
EXTRADITION COMPLETE
Appeal Will Be Taken From judge
Aldrich By Either Side Set.
tlement Distant.

Concord, N. H., Jan. 26.-Harry
X. Thaw believes he will triumph
this wesk over his bitter enemy, Viii
Liam Travers Jerome, and the State
OF New York. The final, supreme 81.
gument of the fugitive's counsel.
sskins Judge Aldrich Of the United
States District Court of New Hamp.
shire to deny New York States de.
mand for the extradition of THAI
iT complete. s
Today was the time limit set y,
the court for the filing of brief foi
the" prisoner. This document is
about 1000 words long. 1t va;
completed ana printed last Saturda,
preparatory to mailing it or handins
ii to Judge Aldrich today.
do Not Worry"
DO not worry. Everything will BE-
alright"
That is what Thaw has been writ
ing in his daily letters to his moth
c..
When Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw !efj
here for her Pittsburg home, Harr,
assured her that he would win i.
the cad, His letters home breathe
the same reassuring confidence.
Today marks the expiration of tn,
EXTENDED time for filing briefs.
A hearing on the bail question wa.
expected January % or 80 Bu
Judge Aldrichs order meant that thu
whole question was postponed unit
the hearing on the main habeas coz,
pus question. The latest date in th,
!abeas corpus schedule was the new
time limit for filing the Thaw rie
today.
Appeal is Assured.
If the whole Thaw question wer,
10 be settled at the habeas CORPUS
hearing the bail question would seen
to be needless. But it is well under
stood that, whatever decision i.
made by Judge Aldrich on the ha.
Goas corpus and eXtradition matter
the case will be appealed by which
ever side loses. And Judge Aldricl
has intimated, also, that he will sent
the case up to the Appellate Court OF
some questions of law.
So the habcas corpus and extradi
t!on matters will still be pending
end bail for Thaw will still be a ne
tinent question. Judge Aldrich will
listen to the bail argument then.
Lawyers declare it is certain tha
Thaw could not be returned to Mat
teawan before the fall of 1915. 70
no matter what Judge Aldrich's de-
cision may be, an appeal taken te
the Supreme Court, by either Thav
ci Jerome would put the case in 1t,
regular place on the calendar, wher,
it could not be reached before late il
la15-or perhaps early the follow
ing year.
The question of possible action h,
the Department of Justice was put
NJ to officers of the department il
Washington and Attorney Genera
McReynolds replied:
New York State is tho interested
party, not the government of tn,
United States"
Hands OFF Policy.
Assistant Attorney General Adkin,
said.
THE department is without juris
diction in the Thaw case"
From other sources at the deDart
ment it was learned that if former
District Attorney Jerome has any in
tention of threatening Judge Aldfict
by seeking pressure from the depart
ment % influence the judges consid
Grafton or Reconsideration of tn,
good intentions of the State of New
York in respect to the extradit;or
of Thaw, the department has n,
knowledge of it; nor would il be
come a party to such proposition
Attorneys of the department dc
clare il would be absurd for Jerom.
to do so. because, they say. ANY iaw
yer knows that the Department q
Justice has no jurisdiction over an,
case after it has been placed befor,
the court for adjudication"
The only thing Jerome can do. ih.
pepar of Justice holds. is n