HARRY THAW.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 90, 20 August 1913, Page 6

HARRY THAW.

CAPTURED IN QUEBEC. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press (Association.] (Received noon.) Ottawa, August 19. The Montreal police report the arr«et of Harry Thaw while hiding in a, little village of Coaticook, in Quebec Province. TO BE DEPORTED. (Received 12.40 p.m.) i* Ottawa, August 19. Tho Canadian immigration authorities have ordered Thaw’s deportation. The Thaw fee has been' before the American public on'innumerable occasions since June, 1906, when Thaw killed Stanford White, a well-known architect, whom he accused of immorality Tf^a}y., H ,, The,, i ca.se was one of the most unsavoury on record, even in America. Thaw was placed on trial in January, 1907, and the jury disagreed in April. The second trial began eight months later, and in February of 1908 Thaw was acquitted on tho ground of insanity and sent to Matteaivan Asylum. Jle had been there only a few weeks when he obtained a writ of habeas corpus, and. a long hearing resulted in his being sent back to the asylum. A few weeks later another writ was obtained, and another long hearing would have followed if Thaw’s counsel had not decided that an attempt to obtain the removal of his client to Pennsylvania in bankruptcy proceedings offered better hope of success. On that attempt failing, another writ was applied for and granted. But the Judge’s decision to send the case for hearing to New York County did not meet the wishes of counsel, who accordingly after a short interval obtained a new writ. result was a further hearing, which ended in the Judge finding that Thaw was suffering from the form of insanity known as paranoia. The hearing had all tho detail and circumstance of a criminal trial. Witness followed witness; alienists were marshalled on either side; the testimony of previous trials was read, and there were numerous exhibits.