Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-26
.THAW MAY escape
TRIAL FOR MURDER
SLAYER OF STANFORD WHITE
SAID TO BE SLATED FOR
INSANE ASYLUM.
FRIENDS OF DEAD MAN
WOULD HIDE SCANDAL
No Written Report Made by Alienists
Retained by Alcott.-Mother May
Ask for Guardian for Son-Ex-
Ambassador Wants Early Trial.

New York, July 21.-"There is a
strong probability that Harry X. Thaw
Will escape trial for the murder of
Stanford White. He will declared In.
sane and sent to an asylum"
This statement was made by an at
tache of the district attorneys office
an assistant prosecutor who Is work.
ing on the case.
The friends and relatives Of White,
1t is understood, have withdrawn their
objections to the proposed insanity
plea, because a trial would bare too
many scandals.
Mother May Cause Insanity Test.
The efforts of Thaws counsel, Cliff
ford w. Hartridge, to obtain all the
papers In the case from former Judge
Olcott, whose law firm was dismissed
by Thaw because it was the purpose
to enter an insanity plea as his de-
tense, has brought it out that the
alienists who were retained by Olcott
made no written report. Should JUS
tiee Mclean order Olcott to turn over
all the papers to Hartridge there will
be no records from the alienists. No
secret Is made of the fact DR.. Allan
McLane Hamilton and DR.. Charles N.
Dane, alienists, told Olcott that Thaw
was insane. Olcott has announced
that as those two alienists are under
retainer by Mrs. William Thaw their
written reports will not pass out of
his possession.
II Thaw's mother fails to persuade
her son that 1t is for his best interest
to accept the opinion that an insanity
defense is the only one to have him
from the electric chair her lawyers
will then appear before a supreme
court justice, armed with the reports
OF the alienists and ask for the ap-
pointment Of commission.
1t may be that prior to this pro-
ceeding she will go before the court
and seek appointment as guardian of
her sons person on the ground that
he is mentally incompetent and with
out funds.
Should the courts appoint her as
guardian she would be in position to
ask for the appointment of a sanity
commission.
Mrs. Stanford White will leave for
Europe early in August 1t is under
stood she will remain abroad until
after the Thaw case has been dis.
posed Of
Ex-Ambassador Urges Trial.
Ithaca, N. Y, July 21.-Andrew d.
White, former president of Cornell
university, declares the time has come
when technical appeals in criminal
cases should no longer be allowed.
Speaking of District Attorney Jerome
DR.. White said:
ION him more than on any other
man thinking people throughout the
state and nation are pinning their
hopes that sundry cases of high crime
now attracting notice may not become
lasting disgrace to New York courts
and American justice.
One Of the worst results of these
cases is the growing opinion among
the people at large that men with
money can so delay justice by every
sort of chicanery that there Is vir-
tual immunity from punishment for
the highest crimes. favor prevent
ing appeals based on mere technical
matters and upon errors of trial
judges in trifling matters Of proce-
dures and the like which have really
nothing to do with the question of
guilt or innocence"