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Show Ifiir 0f White Uncere-Suously Uncere-Suously Dragged jM Jail at Coati-Kk Coati-Kk and Thrust Over X Border at Nor-j Nor-j Mi Mills, Vt, by iEipration Officials. fwESLINETO V HAMPSHIRE fci by Sheriff and Mbn to Colebrook, !flfere Lawyers Are i paring for Legal lie; Governor Will low Advice of At-bv At-bv General. IOOK, N, H Sept 10 dill Thaw, fugitive from lt,tlpi on American soil to-fiJttdrf to-fiJttdrf in a hotel room here, tftie moit eicitin? days in HupMtedly over the Cana-Ik Cana-Ik nrlj today, despite the Irtm corpus domandine his i'Woro the king's bench in at Monday, ha was a frco FM hours, and during that ! in an automobile- for taillM through the .hills of i New Hampshiro. Near into the arms of a New ihriff and wis brought to ij tltte he retained counsol jtWition. Trivers Jerome, rushing L ipecial train, will assume fte ttia for New York state Uelinjj to have Thaw, as Me, returned to Mattca-jtfoeThaw Mattca-jtfoeThaw is "detained," E crime, held on no pMpinE at the handa of 0(J?yewTork) he asked for a ajjBj3 ,Bi c"of of Police tF Ia twelve special depu- SE The5" were patrolling mT" hotel tonirrht. ! tomorrow morning 'In of the supe-applications supe-applications of a of habeas J" 'ho writ was . but the judge, 1 oU,er case, said lt Thefugi-al Thefugi-al rCtUrn t0 iIat" t"!. however, and J" of New York City, tonight from i'fr.L Jinnee of "Tivcd at Coatl-,ft Coatl-,ft with Thaw ,D1 o learn Wj the ted In Thaw's UfUn?er tb Bngliah U u.! !,m"thlng r t !Sy bJt 'wTy CW Hamp- ofUabtUSc I. blul win I , w Three!) t ;; HARRY THAW DEPORTED; NOW IN NEW HAMPSHIRE (Oontinuod from Pago One.) were to hear my case. This Is Rtrong-arm Rtrong-arm work." Mr. Melrmes, himself a Cannnlan. Issued Is-sued the following statement tnnliu: "I tlrr.t received an Intlmatloir from Ottawa yesterday that Thaw would w deported secretly Thursday against the orders of the courts. My colleagues in Montreal would not bcllev the government govern-ment would to outrago the court of king's bench. But I was distrustful, and took the first train to. Coatlcook. where I found that Thaw had been taken out secretly se-cretly by automobile und shovcJ acroaa the liordcr. 1 followed his trail at once by motor to Colebrook." Outcome Uncertain. Tlie matter of Thaw's extradition from N'ew Hampshire was uncertain tonight. His lawyers contended that there first must be produced a requisition warrant from the governor of New York. James B. Tuttle. attorney general of Ncw Hampshire, Is on the scene and he doubtless doubt-less -will make a report on the case to the governor of his state. Jerome, on his two-car special, arrived ar-rived here from Greenfield, Moms., at 11:05 o'clock tonight. Ho wis accompanied by Deputy Franklin Kennedy. Crowds poured Into Colobrook tonight as If thorc was a circus In town. Thaw sent out more than fifty telegrams. Among others he has requested to come hero Is ex-Gov-ornor Stone of Pennsylvania- As a matter of form Thaw was arrested arrest-ed In his rooms shortly after 10 o'clock on a complaint sworn to by Justice Morachauser in Dutchess county, New York, who has Issued a blanket -warrant charging Thaw and those who assisted him In hlB oscnpe from Mntteawan with conspiracy. May Be Remanded. Thaw probably will be arraigned tomorrow to-morrow before a Dollco magistrate on the conspiracy complaint The ordinarv procedure pro-cedure would be to remand hlrn for several sev-eral days, pending a request from Now York on Governor Samuel D. Felker for Thaw's extradition. Before the governor acts on this, if precedent Is followed, ho will call for the nttorney general's report. Jerome, on his arrival, went Into Immediate Im-mediate consultation with Bernard Jacobs, Ja-cobs, legal adviser to Sheriff Drew. "I do not know what the next step will be," Jerome said. "I am busy tonight to-night learning Just what has happened. This came as a complete surprise to me. j-i. mo hiccjj on u ano pornaps i can say more tomorrow." Dragged From Jail. Thaw's ejection from Canada began with the breaking of a window pane. Aroused from his cot in the immigration detention loom at Coatlcook and told ho was to be taken across the border at once, he flew Into a rage, picked up a heavy glass tumbler and with all his might hurled it at the head of the nearest immigration immi-gration officer. The official dodged and the tumbler crashed through a window. Five minutes later Thaw was half carried, car-ried, half dragged, down the stairs, forced Into an automobile and whirled toward Norton Mills. Vt nine miles away. He protested throughout the short trip, but his guards ignored him. At S-5G he was whisked past a gray stone slab marking the boundary, and like a rabbit being released, re-leased, was set gently down on a bit of open ground. He whimpered In bewilderment, bewilder-ment, looking north, south, east and west, as if trying to docldo which wny to go. Half a doiien of the Idlers stepped tnward him, but none attempted to lay hands on hint. For perhaps a minute Thaw stood there, his hat pulled over his eyes, his hair awry, his face unshaven, his clothes rumpled. rum-pled. Then, as there was nothing else to do, he climbed Into the automobile of a newspaper correspondent and asked to iv driven away. "T:ik mo to tlie Ni-w Hampshire line," ne Implored. "Jerome has got the attorney attor-ney general ()f Vermont fixed. In New Hampshire I believe I would have a fighting fight-ing chance against extradition. Maybe we will reach a railroad somewhere and 1 H?n, ,M,.V a through ticket to Detroit." Ialking Incoherently of Detroit. hif lawyers, his mother and of writs of habeas ha-beas corpus, he was driven rnst over a winding road, a stone's throw from the boundary. At Avorill, Vt.. five miles on, the car stopped at a small hotel. Thaw had not breakfasted. Ho ordered bread and milk and gulped It down while he tried to get Montreal over the long distance dis-tance telephone to inform his Canadian counsel and his mother of his predicament. predica-ment. Wire Bad, Fugitive Excited. Cut wires were bad and Thaw was excited ex-cited and he could make no connection. He strode out on the porch only to learn that the chauffeur of the car had deserted. desert-ed. This man war, Thomas Trlhcy. a substantial sub-stantial business man of Coatlcook, and he had volunteered to assist the newspaper news-paper men but had not counted on aiding aid-ing Thaw. Besides, ho had not reported his car on crossing the boundary, as required re-quired by tho cusotms regulations, and was afraid of the consequences. Reluctantly Reluc-tantly he turned back, leaving Thaw fuming fum-ing on the porch of the little hotel. Then up came Frank Cantln, a lean French Canadian. Ca-nadian. He was driving a small, four-seated four-seated car and was ready to travel anywhere any-where for money. "8ure. I will drive you to and back," he assured the fugitive. Thaw got In and 30 did the newspaper correspondents. Thaw clung tightly to a box of cigars, all the baggage he carried. The little car jumped away. Tried to Appear Calm. Cantln evidently thought It was a race for life. Thaw tried to appear calm. His hat was swept off, dust blinded his eyes. The little car took the Vermont hills like a squirrel. "Never mind my hat," shouted the fugitive. fu-gitive. "But hold on there, driver; we don't want to break our necks." Cantln pulled his car down to twenty miles an hdur. A farm wagon hove In sight Thaw seemed frightened for a moment; then he settled back and tried to smoke. He could not talk connectedly; he could give no Idea of what he pur posed to do. After several miles the car swerved north and was back Into Canada again. Thaw grinned. "This Is familiar," he said. "I was along here coming up." Cantln gave his car more fuel and the car fairly hummed through the town of Canaan. Vt. Crosses State Line. Altead lay the Connecticut river and beyond be-yond it New Hampshire. Three minutes more and Thaw was parading about the public square of West Stowartatown. He wore a checked cap a newspaper man had loaned him to replace the lost straw hat, and nrde no attompt to conceal his Identity. Iden-tity. In fact, ho appeared rather proud to let it be known who he was. Being In Now Hampshire made him breathe caslor and he entered the hotel and tried again to got Montreal on tho tolophone. Everybody Every-body within fifty miles was trying to telephone, it seemed, and Thaw gave It up as a bad Job. "Come on." said Thaw to his companions, compan-ions, "I want to 6trlkc a railroad and get to Detroit." But ho could not hold to his resolve and his inability to telophono anybody seemed to gall him. Less than four miles out of S'towartatown, running south and cast, ho made tho chauffeur stop again. The farmhouse of Mrs. Martha Atherton, whose husband was away cooking for n lumber camp, stood well back from the road. Into the yard Thaw had the chauffeur drive and Into tho kitchen tramped Thaw. He had noticed a telephone tele-phone wire running Into the kitchen. Unable to Telephone. Mrs. Atherton was out at the barn, but in hor kitchen sat her aged slep-grand-mother, Mrs. Elvira Day. "I am Harry Thaw," said the stranger. Mrs. Day apparently had not read the nowspapora much of late. "Is that so?" she commented mildly. "What can I do for youV "May I telephoner' said Thaw, taking off his hat for tho first time. "You surely may, air," said the Old lady. "Wo believe In being neighborly." Thaw Bmlled and went to the telephone, and found It useloss. He himself, though he apparently did not realize It, was responsible re-sponsible for the situation. News of his liberation and wild automobile ride was bolng flashed over tne countryside. Even then some one was trying to notify William Wil-liam Travern Jerome: others were notifying notify-ing Sheriff Drew In Colcbrook, so that he might block the roadways. Thaw was cooking his own goose. He talked long with the operator, urging her to get J. N. GreenshleldH In Montreal, his erstwhile chief counsel. He spent more than twenty twen-ty minutes In tho endeavor, sitting at Intervals In-tervals In a quilted rocking chair, smoking. smok-ing. Farmer's Wife Stupefied. Mrs Atherton came In from the barn. "This Is Mr. Thaw," said Mrs. Day, in n mattcr-of-fnet sort of way. Thaw rose and bowed. Mrs. Atherton was stupefied. Apparentlv she had read the papers and she was too overcome to move or speak. Here was Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, calmly smoking a" cigar In her kitchen. She gazed at him a moment, then offered him a limp hand. As Thaw took It. she said: "Wo arc neighborly folks, Mr. Thaw, and If wo can help you In any way, we'd like to do It I'll cook you a meal or hitch up tho team, or anything you say." Thaw declined assistance with thanks. "I must bo going In a few momonts," he said. ... , He stepped to the telephone again, and when the operator told him It was out of the question to get Montreal then, he bade the two women good-bye and hailed Cantln. . 4 , i "Come on." shouted Thaw, "lets be moving.' , , "Where to? demanded Cantln. Thaw glared at him and waved to the south. ,j "Wo're going to Erml," he said, Errol was thirty miles away. Cantln drove on stolidly. Now and then Thaw cautioned him not. to go so fast. It was then nearly noon. Thaw Inquired of tho reporter with him whether he would lend him money In case of emergency. "I mov not have enough to get to Detroit," De-troit," he said. "I Ho dropped the subject abruptly. Fights the Officers. Thaw's removal from the Immigration quartora at Coatlcook was sudden and dramatic. Three mysterious men. who said they represented C. J. Dohcrty. the Dominion minister of Justice, and acting minister of the interior, appeared before S o'clock. Thaw was asleep. They woke him up. commanded him to dress and. after a struggle. In which he tried to brain one of them with a glass tumbler, took htm to the border. Thaw screamed ns they brought him down the stairs. "Don't let them kidnap me." ho cried. "Save me for God s Jaj "few minutes after S o'clock he was on his way to the bordor. InBtead of a protracted legal battle in tho Canadian courts, his case, as far as Canada was concerned, was over In n twinkling. , 4. , , , Thaw's appeal against the order pr deportation de-portation returned hero !nst week has not been heard and writ or no writ Utn- i ad-i was to be rid of him at once Back I on American soil Thaw hardly knew what to do with his new found liberty. In absence of tho guiding counsel he has grown accustomed to in the last five rears, he followed an erratic Journey put or Vermont and into New Hnmpshlrc. which Tended with his detention tonight TtSttSS after Thaw had been hurried from Coatlcook toward the Vermont border by the Canadian imml- ration authorities, the Associated Pross representative, accompanied by a representative repre-sentative of Hie Montreal Star, followed In another automobile, The immigration officers' car was goon overtaken and when Thaw wus set free the two newspaper men were his only companions. Thaw asked to ride In the Associated Press cur. The request was granted and Thaw was permitted to dictate the route traveled. The Montreal newspaper man left the party al West Stcwartson. N. II. Thaw's indignation at the action of the Canadian authorities In deporting him while the habeas corpus proceedings were pending. was frequently manifested throughout his trip. Arrested by Sheriff. A quarter of a mile down the road was a cloud of dust and under the cloud of dust was a big automobile. Thaw grew panicky. Somehow, even at that distance, the car had for him a sinister look. "Hadn't we better turn back?" he asked: yet he didn't order the chauffeur to stop. The big car stopped. Three men Jumped out and strung themselves across the road and as the little car drew up one man held up Ms hand. "Stop," he cried. "I'm the sheriff off Coos county." Thaw loaned forward and looked in the shorlff's face. In his heart he must have felt relieved, his face showed It. He was a prisoner again and the responsibility responsi-bility of being free and not knowing what to do was lifted, lie shook the sheriff's hand cordially and ellmcd Into the sheriff's big machine. Under his arm he bore his cigars. "Give me a square deal, sheriff," he asked. "They did me dirt In Canada and 1 hope for better treatment In New Hampshire." The scene of the arrest was near Stewarlstown hollow, seven miles from Colcbrook. Secures Lawyer. The sheriff's car started almost lmme-mcdlatcly lmme-mcdlatcly for Colcbrook. No news of Thaw's arrest had preceded him and the town was swept off Its feel when Thaw, now thoroughly romposod. stopped beside the Colcbrook National Bank building. Over the bank arc the offices of Thomas i F. Johnson, one of the town's leading lawyers. Thaw was taken Into the offices of-fices and Immediately retained Johnson as local counsel. Also he retained Mcr-rlam Mcr-rlam Shurtloff. Cieorge Morris and 12ti Oaks. He sought to retain J. N. Drew, a brother of the sheriff, hut Drew is In Europe. After a brief conference with counsel Thaw was taken to a hotel for dinner. He ate heartily, then was shaved In a Main street barber shop, while a great crowd watched through the window every stroke of tho razor. The remainder of the afternoon Thaw spent with his lawyers and In telephoning telephon-ing relatives and counsel In New York and In Canada In an attempt to map out a campaign to resist nxtradltlon. Tonight he was put In room No, ii at the Monad-nock Monad-nock house, whero counsel continued their parleys. Hurler H. Kelson, "tho Cole-brook Cole-brook deputy sheriff who followed Tlmw acroso the border on August 10, and caused his arrest, had charge of him tonight. Commenting today on his removal from Coatlcook, Thaw said: "They don't seem to gle a for the law. Five Judges wei-fi to have hcarri arguments ar-guments on my writ of habeas corpus In Montreal on Monday. This move is beyond be-yond me. It seems that there Is no law In Canada." |