The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-30
Of Thaw in stuffy Prison Cell
is Great, Intense Heat Pre-
venting Sleep ~ Pampered
Millionaire Suffers Greatly.
MORNING SUN MADE
HEAT UNBEATABLE
Faithful Wife Earliest Caller to Un.
happy Han-Array of Counsel
for Defense is Brilliant.

Associated Press to TAe ,Evenins Tiaes.
New York, June SO-Harry Thaw
passed an uncomfortable night in his
cell on account of the oppressive heat.
The prison Is close and stuffy, even
under ordinary conditions OF weather,
and last night 1t was almost unbear-
able. Toward morning the tempera-
ture dropped slightly and the prisoner
succeeded in getting to sleep. Scarce
" more than an hour later, however,
the sun came pouring through the
barred window Of his cell and his rest
was ended. Mrs. Thaw was the earli-
est visitor at prison today. She ar
rived at the beginning of the four
hour period during which visitors are
permitted to enter the Tombs. The
streets around the prison were de-
serted when she arrived today.
Counsel for Thaw.
A caller Thaw received at. the
Tombs was a man who said he was
Clifford w. Harbridge. He is q Pitts
burg lawyer and will also act for
Thaw. With the retaining Of the Arm
OF Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bonynge,
Thaw has an array Of legal talent to
defend him that is considered excep-
tional. There are Ex-Governor Frank
S. Black, ex-Judge William M. X. Oh
colt, Lewis l.. Delafield, AF'rederick p.
Delafield, Clifford w. Harbridge, of
Pittsburg; Daniel O'Reilly and George
=. Gordon Of Pittsburg, the counsel for
the Thaw family.
y Insanity n Family.
So far as known, there has been
only one case of insanity In the Thaw
family. That was the case Of Harriet
Thaw, an aunt of Harry Kendall
Thaw's who was found In cellar In a
mouse In Philadelphia during the win
ter of 1904. She was living alone in
the cellar, In direst poverty, with only
rats as her companions. Her condition
was pitiful, and a great sensation was
created when 1t became known that
she was related to the wealthy and
charitable Thaw family of Pittsburg.
Mrs. Harriet Thaw was taken from
the cellar to a private sanitorium, but
she died soon after she reached there,
raving maniac.
Thaw Denies Having Talked.
Previous to being arraigned before
Magistrate Barlow Thaw was taken
into the room of Sergeant Casey,
where he was allowed to talk a few
minutes with Daniel O'Reilly, his tenn
porary counsel. O'Reilly cautioned
Thaw not to talk about his case to
any one, and the prisoner assented.
O'Reilly then asked him IL he had
said to reporter at the police station
on Monday night:
Thaw told the lawyer he never had
said anything of the sort to anyone.
Woman Writes Letter.
Thaw received only one letter at
the Tombs Wednesday. 1t was evident
ly written by woman and the hand
writing was disguised. The letter was
in plain envelope and the address
was In printed and not written let
ters. But the printed letters were
easily discernable to be those writ
ten by woman. The IN" of "Mr."
was the conventional IN" of a wom-
ans handwriting, although almost
printed. The writer had also evil
dently tried to show flliteracy, as the
word "Tombs" was spelt "Toombs."
The letter lay, on the desk in the hall
way of the Tombs for some hours
and was finally sent up to Thaw.