The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-08-08
STANFORD WHITE
ARRA| GNED BY
HARRY THAW
DOROTHY DIX FINDS THAW A
NEW MAN, THOUGH STILL BIT
TER TOWARD THE MAN HE
SHOT TO DEATH.
BY DOROTHY DIX.


NEW YORK, Aug. S.-There Is q
new Harry Thaw. Out OF the travail
or the soul, In the long drawn out
agony OF the two trials in which he
fought inch by inch for his life: out
of the weary. lonely months OF i'm
prisonment with only his sad thoughts
Tor company new man has been
born.
II is as If one had seen enacted
before their eyes the old miracle OF
was cast out OF the young man, and
he arose whole, and healed. and in his
right mind.
During both OF the Thaw trials |
watched the prisoner at the bar day
after day. | noted his haggard face,
his ever-restless hands, his wild, dis
traught look and the dead eyes that
never smiled, and | most honestly be-
lieved his mind unbalanced.
For two hours talked with the new
Harry Thaw In the jail at Poughkeep-
sic, and | saw a man in the pink of
condition, with steady nerves. and
with eyes that met every point in the
conversation with quick challenge of
intelligence. All of the old listless-
ness, the old dullness, was gone, SUI
perseded by a quaint humor, and a
gentleness and an understanding
sympathy that explained why the
women OF his family loved him with
a love that never faltered when they
were called on to tread his Geth-
semane with him.
He talked not only well, but most
entertainingly on wide variety OF
topics, that ranged from his reading
and the way he filled in the long hours
OF solitary confinement to reminis.
cences of his trials and the people
concerned in them, and what struck
me most was the absolutely sane view
the broad, unprejudiced view that he
took of every subject that was breach
ed. Whatever he may have been In
the past, certainly Harry Thaw's mind
seems lucid az crystal today.
| had gone up TO Poughkeepsie to
ask him about the report that he was
to buy a once-fashionable summer re-
sort and turn II into home for Grip
pied children, but when ! mentioned
the matter TO him he threw up his
hands in gesture of negation.
II wish that 1t was true,' he said
II would like to do thing OF that
kind, but | can't afford 1t. | have
made an assignment In bankruptcy
and haven't any more money TO do
with as | please at present"
Spends His Time Reading.
| asked him how he spent his time.
and he answered:
Reading, mostly read a great
deal OF history. and just now l am
reading the 'Maxims OF Epictus.' l
keep five or six books going all the
time so | won't wear myself out on
any one subject. You know when
you have nothing to do but read you
have TO be careful not to overdo II,
SO that you lose your appetite for IL.
| never read the six best sellers un-
til they are four years old. BY that
time they have demonstrated whether
they were worth reading or not"
Then we turned, as was inevitable,
to the great crucial event OF his life.
the one thing that must forever dwarf
other interests Ia his mind-the trial
During the trial." he said, and
speaking without particle or bitter
ness, 1.-The newspapers didn't give me
or my family a fair SHOW. | don't
blame them, for our lawyers wouldn't
let us speak and set things straight
but a lot was published that did us In
Justice. For instance, | was continu
ally represented as being dope fiend.
when never took dose or dope In
my life. | was also pictured as going
on sprees, when was lost to the
world for days together. whereas l
never was on a spree in my life.
II don't say" continued Mr.. Thaw,
calculating the true inwardness OF
spree. that | haven't drunk too much
of a night. but was always all right
by morning. and didn't even have to
pick It up, and that, In my opinion,
doesn't constitute spree"
Mr. Thaw." | asked, do you think
that the influence OF n great fortune
such as yours is beneficial or baneful
on a young man."
He smiled whimsically as he answer