The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-15
COMES BACK TO
DEFEND HER SON
Arrival of Harry K. Thaw's
Mother, Who Cut Short
Visit Abroad.
PRISONER SHOWS TEMPER
LAWYER SAID TO HAVE BEEN
DISCHARGED.

New York, July 14-Mrs. William Thaw,
mother of Harry X. Thaw. accused of the
murder of Stanford White, returned to
New York on the steamer Kaiserin Au-
susie Victoria. The passengers did not
land until nearly 3 o'clock this after
noon, and 1t was then too late for Mrs.
Thaw to visit her son in the Tombs.
tomorrow being Sunday, no visitors are
allowed in the city prison, excepting with
a special permit So far the young mans
VIE has been unable to secure this spe-
clal privilege from the commissioner of
corrections. Whether the mother will at
tempt to reach the Tombs tomorrow is
not known. She may be compelled to
wait until Monday before seeing the boy
upon whom she lavished SSO00e a year
from her own income
Realizing that she would perhaps ar
rive too late TO see the prisoner today,
Mrs. Thaw sent ahead a wireless tele-
gram, which was delivered to Thaw early
in the day. The message seemed TO cheer
him greatly.
Mrs Thaw was said today to be in fair
health, having stood the voyage home re-
markedly well.
New Counsel Employed.
j. B. Gleason. of counsel for Thaw,
and Chaplain Wade of the prison. went
came up the bay on the KaiSerine with
Mrs. Thaw 1t was said tonight that Har-
~ Thaw has dismissed the law firm of
Black, Olcott Gruber and Bonynge in a
fit of anger, and that the firm of which
former Governor Frank s. Black is the
head will not defend the young Pitts
burger in his trial for the killing of White.
The dismissal, it is said, is the culmina-
ton of number of arguments Thaw has
had with various members of the law
firm over the question of defense Judge
OlcOtt, who has been active member of
the firm in connection with the case, all
- to- Nl.@
chief point in the defense, it is believed,
while Thaw insisted with equal if not
greater emphasis that he would not stand
for the insanity plea.
Thaw Got Angry.
While there have been numerous argu-
ments between Thaw and Olcott on this
question, there was no open break, it IS
said. until Friday afternoon, when, ac-
cOrding to the authority upon which the
story is based. Thaw, during a verbal
combat with Judge OlcOtt in the TOmbs.
became enTaged and wound up a TRADE
by telling his lawyer flatly that the firm
of Black OlcOtU, GTuber and B0nynge no
longer were his counsel.
II am the boss" Thaw is declared to
have said, after Judge OlcOtt had given
il as an ultimatum that ThaW should
place himself absolutely in the hands of
his counsel as a patient in the hands of
his physician and submit entirely to the
judgment of the law firm as to the best
manner of conducting the defense. land |
will not stand for the insanity plea" the
prisoner added.
Judge OlcOtt then left the prison. it is
said and today received a letter, ac-
cordng to the story, from Thaw, in which
the Young man put in writing his dis
missal of the firm.
Lawyers Statement.
A member of Judge Olcott's firm, when
questioned about the matter tonight, said;
Our firm was not engaged by Harry
ThaW. but by the law firm of Delafield
& Longfellow, who are counsel for Harry
ThaW's mother and were counsel for
Thaw's father during the elder Thaw's
lifetime They retained US to take charge
Of the criminal end of the case. We have
been obliged in making our plans for the
defense of young Thaw to go along lines
in defiance of his wishes. Further than
that | do not care to talk just now"
1t is said another cause for the dis
agreement between ThaW and his counsel
arose out of the payment of certain bills
Thaw contracted in the Tombs after his
arrival there is a prisoner. A noticeable
disagreement between Thaw and OlcOtt S
firm came one day last week, when Thaw
issued a statement to the newspapers,
with Judge OlcottS consent denying that
he was insane and declaring that that
would not be the defense when his case
came to trial. Judge Olcott, in speaking
of this statement said:
Yes. / permitted Harry to make the
statement; he pestered me so much that
l had to-