The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-26
OFFICIALS BRING
HOME EMPTY BAG
DR.. G. Thompson Back in
September, Symmonds
and Pabst Declare.
is PLAYING FOR TIME
Physician Is Represented by
a Former Supreme
Court Judge.

Officials of Kenosha county arrived
home yesterday, bringing with them
large fur-lined bag-empty. DR..
George Thompson, former city physi-
clan, who refused to be lured within
its confines, is still in North Dakota.
But despite the fact-.that the doctor
won the first trick by springing writ
of habeas corpus after extradition pro-
ceedings had gone against him, Dis
trict Attorney Frank S. Symmonds said
that he had looked through the rest
of the deck and found that it is stack
ed against the physician.
Thompson Back in Month.
Fred Pabst, sheriff of Kenosha
county, who also returned yesterday,
concurs with the district attorney in
the opinion that sit will be a matter
of a month at most before DR..
Thompson will be back here to face
q charge of deserving his wife and
six small children.
Here the district attorney takes up
the story. eve have practically won
our battle to get DR.. Thompson back
within the jurisdiction of the local
courts, and he will be here in less
than month at most. We would
have brought him back with us, if it
were not that the mills of the gods
grind slow and the wheels of justice
move ponderously.
Brilliant Talent Defends Physician.
Upon our arrival at Bismark, North
Dakota, we discovered that the doctor
was represented by the most brilliant
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former Judge of the supreme court, was
representing him. However, we ap
peared before the governor, and won
the extradition hearing. The COVER
nor ordered DR.. Thompson turned over
to Sheriff Pabst.
eve went to get him Immediately,
only to discover that habeas corpus
proceedings had been started, which
were not returnable until July %. We
later found that the judge who issued
the writ was not familiar with all
angles of the case. Upon our threat
to get an order to show cause why the
writ should not be returnabIe imme-
diately, Burke arranged for a hearing
on Saturday at $3.50 in the evening.
Under the North Dakota law the
Judge has the right to take the
matter under advisement for a five
day period. This he did. That won
them their delay.
Playing for Time.
"The decision will undoubtedly be
against the doctor, because we pre-
scented several North Dakota cases in
point which favored us. They will take
the matter to the supreme court,
however, if the hearing goes against
them. But at most it will only win for
them a month in their play for time.
"Meanwhile DR.. Thompson is in the
custody of the sheriff of Burleigh
county. A request made by them to
have the doctor released pending the
hearing was promptly denied. This
will keep him where we know where
he is, eliminating the possibility of
again having to hunt him up.
"The financing of DR.. Thompson's
battle to remain in North Dakota, it
seems was done by twelve of the lead
ing business men of Cathay, where he
is in practice. A pool was made up,
and the best legal talent obtained
for him. They needed physician in
the town, they said. There is no dis
putting the fact hiatt the doctor knows
medicine and that he can make him
self most agreeable, for he is man
Of personality"