AMERICAN JUSTICE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1849, 8 September 1913, Page 7

AMERICAN JUSTICE.

THE THAW CASE. CHARGE AGAINST A STATE LAWYER, ( OARD CAME St AFTER, t By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrluht Montreal, September 5. a There hag been an extraordinary do--3 velopment iu tlio Thaw case. A warrant - has been'sworn out against tho Now a York Stato lawyer, Mr. W. T. Jerome, t accusing him of gambling in railway property. Mr. Jerome admitted that ho had engaged in a card game with news--1 paper men for trifling stakes. He was admitted to bail after being brought bc- ~ foro a magistrate. The charge, has unj doubtedly been instigated on behalf of Thaw by the latter's lawyers, with the object of preventing Mr. Jerome from participating in tlio case. UNPLEASANT PROBPECT. "HELL AT MATTEAWAN." Montreal, September 5. The prospect of being roturned to the Matteawan Home for the Criminal In- * sane has caused Thaw a nervous breakdown. He declared at-Coaticook, in a fit. of passion: "I would rather die than „ return to hell at Matteawan." ii ORDER OF DEPORTATION. Montreal, September 5. Thaiv has been ordered to be deported • on the ground that he is nil asylum inmate. s Counsel has appealed against the de--1 portation order. 1 CANADIAN LAW TO BE TESTED. HEARING NEXT MONDAY. (Reo. September 7, 5.5 p.m.) Montreal, September 6. Thaw has beon ordered to appear in the King's Bench Division on September 15, when. his appeal will bo heard. It is likely that tlio constitutionality of the Canadian immigration law will be questioned. CAUSTIC COMMENT, BY THE'LONDON PBESS. 2 Soma oaustio editorial comments on the Thaw case ana being publishod by tlio London papers. Tlio "Daily Express" f saj'3:—"lf American justice docs not suc- . coed in the capture of Thaw tlio sevorest blow yet delivered will have been.-struck c at its insecure foundations and the judi- : cial system undermined. The corruption ' and sentimentality in tlio common course 3 of American justice amazo the people of B this country, and the easo with which tlio ; rich escape its meshes strikes an Bng- . lMiinan as humiliating to tlio public 1 conscience of a great country where there 3 is a law for the rich and another for the poor. A ■millionaire with his woight of money modes tho law. Hero to would hare handed Thaw or scot him irrevoc--3 ably to Broadmoor. We make bold to say that there is no European State west > of Russia in which a scandal like this ! could littvo been perpetrated without - arousing such a shown as would destroy i 'the hierarchy of officials responsible. Had f Thaw been poor he would havo gone to t the electric chair."