The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-02-02
RELEASE MAY SOON
COME TO PRISONER
THROUGH Commission
The Verdict Is Not Pleasing To Thaw,
Who Hoped For Clear Aoaait.sl,
But the Result is Very Salts.
factory To His Faith
ful Wife.
BY LANeDcN SMITH.

ne" ork, February 1,-fSpeeiai AFTER
celebrating % hours the jury having un-
der consideration the case of Harry Tha,v.
for the killing of Stanford White brought
IN verdict Of mot guilty at / O'clock
! this afternoon
The verdict was arrived at an .n.
ground that Thaw was insane at the
time the deed was committed
Although practically cleared Of the
charge of murder. Thaw is not vet a
free man. On recommendation ef Jus-
! tiee Dowling, he was taken TO the insane
asylum at Matteaw wan, as dangerous
person and one whose malady is likely
to reeur at any moment.
Here harry Tbaw slept toaighf sur
rounded by the insane and here be WIN
remain until pronounced permanently
sane by the proper authorities. or untI
released by writ OF haheas corpus. .Ar.I
SO, after all, In fulhninent OF tlo,lsansI
prophecies the gold Of Harry Thaw VIII
eventually pave his way g. iretdo,.,
When the Neuvy doors 1t Msltsawan
eipnsed Upon him the ghost cf stanford
White was laid, AMI uats ali etei1ate
| the dead Will rest. But Harry Thaw VIII
come amYng us again with his swag ggsr
and his strut, his nillious and his manis.
Steps are now beiag taken to that END.
Had he been a poor man he would have
been shocked to death, buried ard for
gotten a year ago.
Thaw Is Not Pleased
The Thaw family was not at al pleased
with the action of Justice a,owliug Harry
| Thaw was especially bitter. He thought
in view Of the verdict Of the jury lie
should have been released. Mrs William
Thaw was also displeased
There were several conferences in
which Messrs. Llttletor. o'Reilly, Pea
body, Josiah Thaw, Harry Thaw and lis
wife took part. Thaw protested loudly.
He did not seem to realize his luck in
| escaping the chair.
| Mr. Ltteton after talk with Justice
Newburger of the supreme court an
nounced to Justice Bowling that no writ
of habeas corpus would be applied for at
this time and that Thaw would obey the
| court order.
| So it happened that Thaw toek ths
4So o'clock train for Matteawan.
| On Monday another conference will he
held, at which all Of Thaw's relatives
will be present.
Throughout the long hours OF LAST
night Thaw had lain on his back in his
cell, awaiting the verdict. Right Well
| he knew that more than one man was
battling against his life 10 the jury room.
When the dawn came he hal not slept.
At 10 o'clock his wife arrived. She
walked to the bars of his cell, small
and pitiable object. bedraggled by the wet
pavements and with the raindrops glisten-
| ing in her face.
| Her eyes were hollow and dark and ap-
peared to burn with fever.
! Faithful Wife.
| Whatever else may be said no one can
say that she has not given to the sallow-
! faced weakling she calls husband all that
a woman may give to man.
Good name, honor, truth, everything
worthy in life, she has laid at his feet.
! with only the sulI acknowledgment
with which a savage dog would receive IL
| proffered bone.
! Evelyn Thaw stood for awhile talking
through the bars to her husband. She
tried to cheer him up. but he was too
greatly excited and she went back to the
| deputy sheriffs room, where she sat
! alone.
| When Thaw was called into court this
! afternoon his face was pasty and sodden.
| He sat down by Daniel O'Reilly and be-
| gan to gnaw his finger nails He looked
| neither to the right nor left, but stared
] straight at the jurymen with a sort ot
I defiant terror in his eyes. Before him
| there was a vision of the electric chair.
| and at his side there was a vision of tho
| ghost of Stanford White.
Clerk Penny called the Jurors names.
Gentlemen of the jury" said Mr..
Penny ''have you arrived at verdict IN
this case?'
| I'VE have" replied Foreman Gremmels.
arise, gentlemen of the jury. Arise,
defendant
Harry rhaw arose, trying to look conf
dent. He sazed lAedly at Juror Holbert,
the man who was said to have favored
a verdict of inriue, in the first degree.
The juryrnen returned Thaw's gaze fix
edly.
''Not Guilty"
The foren ans voice trembled as he an
swered: We fiud the defendant not guilty
on the ground Of insanity al the time tho
deed wa- cnnlni' ted"
At the Hotel Lorraine. in the room of
the aged mother OF the defendant, a mo-
ment later the telephone bell rang sharp
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