Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-12
THAW, IF FREED,
PLANS TO STAY IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Says He'll Visit Many Friends
There if Bail Is
Allowed.
WON'T AFFECT MAIN
ISSUE, ASSERTS JEROME
Gives Slayer Opportunity to
Flee or Commit Another MUIR
der, He Says.

CONCORD, y. H. Jan. 1s-Bellev-
ing that his early release on bail IL
practically assured by the report NJ =
federal court commission that :.
"oulo not be menace to public
safety Harry Kendall Thaw today
began making plans for visiting
friends within the State.
Ihaw. elated by the commiaS,onsz
repoIt 1as. .lat his release on bail would
not endanger public safety. rerna5,,s6
in his apartments in . local r..ssl's1 bo+s1 -.
graduation. u eoi.-
BY direction of counsel ,,aith.~
IhaW nor his mother would eonmerf
on the hnding of the Commission aI-
lnough the eountenances of hofh IN
olcated their jubilation. Thaw said
that II the court should admit him ia
pan ne would not leave the State for
the present. e 1o1'
Plans Many visits.
since his detention here he has mad.
many acquaintances. some If 1--,,r,--,
nave invited him to visit thern Ne
Is planning. he said. to make his tiref
VISIT al the home of one of his c,,sso-
qlans, Sheriff Holman P. Drew az
berhn. Drew is the official who ar
Iesteu MIN near Colebrook after his
deportation from Canada.
Thaws tentative ARRANGEMENTS nro-
vide for a trip covering nearly every
section of the State.
After the lawyers have had sum
clent time to study the report Of fhe
commission. United States Judge Ed
gar Aldrich will give another hearing
on Thawis petition for admission 10
bail. The date has not been fixed.
The next move in the case will be
the f1ling by Thaw's counsel of a petit
tlon asking that the amount of bail
be fixed, and date for hearing on
the question will be set by the court.
Thaw and his attorneys are still at
work preparing a brief ordered by
Judge Aldrich last month in the mat
ter of extradition, and to which Will
lam T. Jerome, special deputy attor-
ney-general of New York. will reply
before the final court hearing Is held.
Several attorneys conversant with
federal court procedure agreed today
that Thaw, If released under bonds.
would be immune in every part of rh4
federal jurisdiction from arrest BY
State authorities IN connection with
the murder Of StTnford Write or his
escape fcorn Aatteawan, pending The
final disposition of the habeas corpiis
proceedings in the federal court X
was suggested by one of the lawyers
that it might be advisable for the
prisoner to keep out of New York. as
ne might be detained there on soTns
technicality. though he probably
would be able later to obtain his re-
lease by a writ of habeas corpus.
Jerome Optimistic.
By order of Judge Aldrich. copies Of
the commissions report were for
warded to counsel in the case today.
NEW YORK, Jan. william
Travers Jerome special attorney for
New York State in its efforts to bring
Harry K. Thaw back to Matteawan.
said today that the action of the New
Hampshire commission in finding
Thaw sane would not affect the main
issue. Except that it may afford
Thaw the opportunity OF reaching
some foreign country from which he
cannot be extradited. or of killing
some man." said Jerome, the report
of the commission is of no corse-
quence.
THE only question involved in the
proceeding before Judge Aidrich is
whether the governor of New Hamp-
shire acted legally when he granted
the extraditicn. Whatever this ques-
ton is deeiLed. it will go to the
United States Supreme Court. I am
sure We would appeal il reversed,
and certainly the other side would
continue the fight"
IF the Supreme Court upholds
Governor Felker in extraditing
Thaw," Jerome continued. "Thaw
will be brought back TO New York
and tried on the conspiracy charges
preferred against him following his
escape from Matteawan. and ulti-
mately will be lodged back in ths
asylum whence he fed"