Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-02-08
7HAW is ACQUITTED
JURY RETURNS VERDICT AFTER
Is HOURS DELIBERATION.
Noted Murder Case Ends by the Ac-
cused Man Being Declared Danger.
ousIy Insane at Time of Crime and
Must Be Confined in Asylum as Such
Harry Created Scene.

New York, Feb. 3.-Adjudged not
guilty of the murder of Stanford White
by reason of insanity at the time the
fatal shots were fired. Harry Kendall
Thaw Saturday was held by the court
to be dangerous lunatic and was
whirled away to the state hospital for
the criminal insane at Matteawan.
1t was a quick transition from the
dingy little cell in the Tombs which
had been the young mans home for
more than Is months to the white |
bedded wards of the big asylum tucked |
away on the snow covered, steep |
banks of the Hudson river, so miles |
above the city.
The verdict came after % hours of
waiting, and when every one connect
ed with the case had abandoned all
hope of an agreement ever being
reached in this or any other trial. Four
hours after the foreman's lips had
framed the words mot guilty with
the accompanying insanity clause,
Thaw, protesting he was sane, was on
J his way to Matteawan. A little after
nightfall he had been received in the
institution under commitment papers
which directed his detention until
: discharged by due course of law"
e No more unwilling patient ever
o made a journey to a state institution.
IS Thaw's train on, its way to Fishkill
p landing, where a carriage was taken
d to Matteawan, passed beneath the
k walls of grim Sing Sing, but at no
y time since his arrest on the night of
1t June 25, 1906, had the young Pitts
II burger millionaire ever held the
lie thought that he would see the inside
y. of that famous prison, and he needed
it not
The first thrill of the words of &C
~ quittal brought Thaw to his feet II
- the courtroom, and with that lack Of
grace of action which always has
- characterized his movements, he awk
a. wardly, almost haltingly, bowed his
. acknowledgment to the IL jurors a.
they were discharged by the court. A
smile played about his pale features
-. and there was every reason to believe
that he was entirely pleased with tin
outcome. 1t was after he had hear'
TX the words of Justice Bowling commit
j. ting him to Matteawan, on the groun'
ne that his release, in the opinion of tn
elr court, would endanger the public safe
Xix ty, and after the citation of the verde
nd had died away, that Thaw rebelled.
of Justice Bowling, it is said, had bee
n; consulted in the matter before he ha
nd signed his order of commitment, an
is informally had advised Thaw's counst
&C. against making immediate contes
The prisoners consent was not wo
until after a lively scene with hi
counsel and his wife, the latter plea,
fol- ing with him for more than an hour
o. be content for a time at least wit
g. what fate had given him.
iyu On his way to Matteawan, Thaw di
sc- tated the following authorized stat
W. ment to a representative of the ASS
%. ciated Press:
~ Il am perfectly sane now, but
.ct am going to Matteawan on the adviC
tie. of my counsel, who thought it unwis
to sue for a writ of habeas corpus ;
this time. Counsel will proceed in til
matter of my release just as soon {
'n they can get together the proofs the
oo will present that l am at present san
w. l am confident that my stay at Ma
''u teawan will be for a short period
time only"
-, Brief History.
,et April %, 1905-Thaw and Evely
all Nesbit married in Pittsburg.
ac- June %, 1906-Thaw killed White.
1E. January %, 1907-First trial begs
I. before Justice Fitzgerald.
February 2, 1907-Jury complete.
February Z, 1907-Evelyn Thaw tel
ner jury of wrongs by White.
ON March 26, 1907-Lunacy commissiC
OF appointed.