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Show THAW CASE BECOMES MORE COMPLICATED While White's Slayer Is Under Order of Deportation De-portation By the Immigration Officials, the Court of Appeals Grants Application For Habeas Corpus and Directs Thaw's Appearance Appear-ance Before the Court Immediately CANADIAN JUSTICE SCORES AMERICANS Declares That Foreign Lawyers and Sheriffs Have Hurt the Dignity of the British Courts Thaw's Attorneys Will Ask For Bail Jerome Fails to Appear For Trial and Justice of Peace Bitterly Denounces Him Jerome Remains on the American Side of the Border Coaticook Band Gives Concert For Thaw's Benefit While a Great Mob Cheers the Hero Montreal. Sept. 6. An application for bail will be the next move by the lawyers for Harry K Thaw, who yesterday succeeded In securing from Justices Cross and Gervals ;i writ ol habeas corpus returnable in Montreal on September 15. and an order pre M uting the immigration officials from deporting Thaw. "Foreign lawyers, foreign sheriffs and foreign bailiffs have hurt the di-nit di-nit of the British courts of law In the Thaw case." said Justice tlervais, one of the judges who yesterday issued is-sued the writ of habeas corpus and order prohibiting (he Imm'.Rration an thorities from deporting Harrv K Thaw British sovereignty is quite capa ble of taking care of any person who appeals to our sense of justice." continued con-tinued his lordship "If iy not necefl sary for any lawyer, sheriff, bailiff or nny other foreign person to Inter vene in such a matter " o .ire quite capable of looking after af-ter any stranger that is within our midst Mr Thaw will uppear before the full bench of the court of appeals and his case will be threshed out there, according to its merits. ' TIk- legal conthl'genl from Montreal handling Thaw's case accompanied by iionueman i inuiipnon me chauffeur, who drove the rescue car from Mntteawan. returned on a spe-Clal spe-Clal train this morning. While the Thaw lawyers declined 'o commit themselves, it is thought thai they will quietly appear in the covt of king's bench either today or Mon-da Mon-da and make their appeal for ball. In legal circles here tue belief Is held that the Thaw case Is now safely safe-ly launched on Its long trip to the privy pri-vy council. E Blake Robertson, assistant superintendent super-intendent of the Dominion Immigration Immigra-tion department, who passed through Montreal on his way home to Ottawa, said : "Thaw will be deported, be sure of that." Tressed for a statement. Mr. La Flarame of the Thaw counsel, said v ifcked Jerome and there win be no deportation. That s enough for the present." Thaw's Wealth Dazzles Canadians. Coaticook, Quebec. Sept Harry K Thaw's lawyers having thrown .i wrench Into the machinery lo deport him add William Travers Jerome hav ing motored quietly away to Norton ? Mills Vt., after his arrest yesterday and release on $500 bail on a charge of gambling, Coaticook resumed its normal state today Thaw remained, deserted by counsel, in the immigration immigra-tion detention pen over the Grand Trunk railway station. Jerome's preliminary hearing was set for this morning before Magis trate McKee, but his counsel were to .isk to have the hearing continued Thaw may remain here a day or a I week Not until September lf Is tio to appear at Montreal before the full kmc s bench, appeal side, on the writ of habeas corpus As matters stand, the case of the fugitive slayer 's more snarled up than at anv time since his escape from Matteawan Ordered deported for two reasons entering the Dominion Domin-ion by stealth and having been an inmate of an insane asylum within five years his appeal io the minister of the interior automata ally stayed proceedings Then came the writ Of habeas cor i pus and the restraining order grunted at Montreal. As a matter of fact fibres! fib-res! raining order was issued prior to the time the deportation dec ision was returned and It i a question whether thlb does not invalidate the findings In any event Thaw will have hts court hearing The arrival of the writ here last evening on a special train was greeted greet-ed with wild cheering by the croud around the railroad station Thaw, himself thought it was returnable ii on 8 and had prepared to ko to RJon treat on a special train For an hour the crowd waited, then the special whirled away but Thaw was not on It. It carried only his victorious law vers, headed by .T. N". Greenshields and N K. La Flamme K Hlake Robertson, who presided as chairman of the special board that found Thaw- subject to deportatlo.i has gone to Montreal, leaving Agent Williams In charge. Thaw's guards said he slept well last iiIkI'1 In spite of Mr- azcltemenl of yesterday He retired after the Coaticook band had given a concert beneath hU b.irred windows, playing in conclusion ' Ood Save the King, while the throng shouted "three cheers for Thaw." Ordluarily the band plays lu the park, but the mem bers could not resist the chance of playing for Thaw before a sympathetic sympa-thetic populai e Justice Denounces Jerome. Coaticook. Quebec, Sept 8 Willi am Travers Jerome, arrested lu Coat- icook yesterday on a charge of gambling, gam-bling, was bitterly denounced by Jus tlce of the Peace James McKee in his court room today. The gray-bearded magistrate was very indignant when Jerome's t ounsel announced that the New York law er could not be present today and asked an adjournment of the hearing of his gambling case "I want to say." said McKee. banking bank-ing the table with his fist, "that w; intend to persecute Mr. Jerome to the full extent of the law He can't come here and play his card games before our children This may be a suburii town, but we intend to enforce the laws. Our relations with the American Ameri-can bar are cordial, but justice must be meted out In this case." The court then suggested that Jerome's Je-rome's ball be forfeited "That would only hit two of our citizens who went on it.' said Mr Hanson, the prosecutor. The justice said he would lei the bail stand and put the case over until September 1 There was a crowd of about sixty persons in the court who stamped their foot and applauded vociferously when the Justice denounced Jerome Jerome meantime was nt Norton Mills. Vt where he went yesterday by automobile after being admitted to hail He was considering the next moif to be made in the Thaw case and for this reason did not deem it best to return to Coaticook. where feeling against him has run high. Jerome Over the Border Norton Mills, Vt, Sept. fi William Travers Jerome probably will not appear ap-pear in Coaticook Quebec, today to answer to the charge of gambling on which he was arrested yesterda) He was still here this morning and announced an-nounced he would not leave until afternoon. af-ternoon. "Then," he said. ' I don I know which way I shall go" |