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Show BROWED MUST FACE TILIIEWW Philadelphia Judge Declares City Wants Very Little of Thaw Case. PHILADELPHIA. .Tan. 15. Judgo J. M. Patterson, in common pleas court, to.iay decided that Oliver A. Brower. charged with conspiracy to kidnap Frederick Gump, Jr.. of Kansas City, who accused Harry K. Thaw of boating him, must be returned to New York. Henry J. . Scott, Brower' s attorney, enumerated several reasons why his client should be released, but Judge Patterson Pat-terson rulsd that the, question of identification identifi-cation w:js tho only point in the case with w hir-h the local courts were concerned, con-cerned, whereupon Scott quickly ended the proceedings bv admitting that Brower was the man named in the indictment and that he was in New York on January Jan-uary 6, the time of the alleged conspiracy con-spiracy with Thav to induce Gump to go to New York. Asslsta nt District Attorney Attor-ney Blank of New York contended that It was the Intention of Thaw and Brower to prevent Gump from testifying to the alleged attack by Thaw in a New York hotel on Christmas day. Judge Patterson prefaced his ruling with the comment tha t "the Th' case had left a trail of shame and that Philadelphia wanted little erf it." Mr. Black argued that copies of telegrams tele-grams under date of January 6. which Thaw is said to have sent to Long Beach, Cab, inquiring about the whereabouts where-abouts of the Gump boy. and of the "dear master" letter which Thaw is alleged to have dictated to Gump, forcing him to describe the effects of the flogging, were found on Brower at the time of his arrest ar-rest here and were conclusive evidence of the alleged conspiiary. frank P. Walsh of Kansas City, former chairman of the federal commission on industrial relations and counsel for Gump, was present at the hearing. He said he knew of no contempla ted action by the Gump family to sue Thaw for a quarter of a million dollars after the, disposal of the present charges, as has been reported. re-ported. Thaw's mother, who is staying at the hospital where Thaw is recovering from an a t tempt at suicide, was at her son's bedside for nearly four hours today, comforting com-forting an consoling him. She would not disclose what legal moves were to be made in Thaw's behalf when his condition permits per-mits his removal from the hospital. Thaw-has Thaw-has an array of attorneys here from New York and Pittsburg, however, and loial officials rocard this mobilization of legal talent as the preliminary lo a serious effort ef-fort to keep him within the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania courts. |