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Show HARRY K. THAW LOSES HIS F10HT Supreme Court Reverses Refusal Re-fusal of New Hampshire Federal to Extradite. MUST GO TO NEW YORK Decision Will Cause Celebrated Celebrat-ed Prisoner to Be Turned Over to State at Once. Washington, Dec. 21 Harry 1. ji Thaw lost his fight today in the su- jf preme court of the United States. against being extradited from the t state of New Hampshire to the state of New York. In a brief decision by Justice Holmes, which wjs the unanimous ji decision of the court it was held that j the celebrated prisoner should be turned over at once to the New York j authorities to answer an indictment charging conspiracy to escape from j Matteawan asylum for the criminal Insane. W hether his escape from the j asylum, while his counsel contended. I he was insane, constituted a crime aiid other questions the court dis- missed with the comment that they j coold not enter Into a habeas corpus proceeding and that they were proper prop-er questions for ttie state of New I " ork to decide Actually the cele- j I bra led Thaw c ase the killing of Stanford White was not before th3 rupreme court. Merely the question of returning Thaw on the conspiracy indictment was up for decision. What other moves. If any, srei i open to Thaw's counsel to prevent his return to ihe state where he wis twice tried and bad made many futile fu-tile efforts to be released, those fa- ' miliar with the legal procedure were I at a loss to forecast. To those who j have followed the case it seemed that '.iie fight against returning to New 1 ork was lost and that nothing remained re-mained but for the sheriff of Coos county. New Hampshire to turn Thaw over to New York officers upon the i xtraditlon granted by the governor H Nev Hampshire, but staved by tin-decision tin-decision of Justice Aldrlch, which was today reversed. On August 17. 1913. Thaw escaped from the Matteawan insane hospital In New York, where he had been i Hiiined, after two trials for the mur-der mur-der Ol Stanford White Charged with .i i onspiracy to escape, he was final-b final-b arrested in Nev.- Hampshire. He was indicted in New York on that i harge and application for his extra-ditlon extra-ditlon was made to New Hampshire. Extradition was ordered by the governor gov-ernor ot New Hampshire, but on habeas ha-beas corpus proceedings in the fed-eral fed-eral district court, Judge Aldrich hld Thaw hould be released. Justice Holmes announced the courts unanimous unan-imous decision today. He first overruled over-ruled the contention, that it was not a c ime for a man confined in an insane in-sane asylum to walk out if he coold. and that therefore a conspiracy to do so was not a crime Manchester, N H . Dec. 21 -Harry ' K Thaw received without comment j today the announcement from Wasb-(ngton Wasb-(ngton that the supreme court had r-versed r-versed the decision of the federal court In New Hampshire which refused re-fused to extradite him to New York His secretary, speaking for him. after af-ter manifesting surprise, said: lr Thaw has no comment to makcv An; statement regarding the court -action will have to come from his counsel. Philander C. Knox, in whom Mr Thaw has every confidence." Thaw received the news through a press dispatch. He has been stop-ping stop-ping in this city for the past thre 00 Washington, Dec. l'l.- President Wilson, it was understood at Ci White' House today, beliees the sen-atfl sen-atfl should reconsider its action in including a clause in its ratification of the Safety at Sea convention, which advocates of the convention be-Ueve be-Ueve practically nullifies it. It is expected that the question will be brought up in the; senate this week. Secretary Bryan today reported to the president on a conference with S t retary Redfleld, Chairman Alexan-der Alexan-der of the house merchant marine. committee, and Commissioner Cham-berlSin, Cham-berlSin, at which it was felt that the senate should reconsider its ac- Arlvocntes of the convention do not believe the other nations which sign-ed sign-ed It will agree to the senate's reser-vation reser-vation that the Cnlted States shall have the right to make further safe-iv safe-iv regulations and impose them on foreign ships coming Into American territorial waters. |