The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-02-02
ThAW IS ACQUITTED

| fromed the institution Oh Sunday.
Daniel o'Reilly announced at Fish.
kill Landing tonight that when a wri
of habeas corpus Is sued out in Thaw
behalf. If such action shall be decides
| upon in the near future, application
probably win be made at Poughx eep-
| sic. the county seat of Duchess County
in which Matteawan is located.
Thaw was cheered by a crowd of sew
eral hundred persons as he was whirleJ
away from the Tombs in his wife au-
tomobile. II he heard he paid no heed
The machine was so filled with deputies
and members OF his counsel thaI Meth
er Thaw nor his wife was visit
BILE to the waiting throngs. 1t was at
first planned to have Thaw enter the
automobile from the Criminal Courts
building, but the crowd in White Street
became so dense, the chauffeur was d.
rected to drive into the Tombs yard.
The party then crossed the Bridge of
Signs leading to the prison and entered
the waiting vehicle. without trouble.
Few people at the Grand Central sta
ton know of Thaw's coming and the
party was little noticed in tho rush of
the weekend throngs bound for the
suburbs. A special car was attached to
the regular 4:29 p. m express over the
New York Central, but there was a If
teen minute delav in the departure of
the train. Thaw smoked and talked
with his counsel throughout the jour-
neY. From the moment that word came
from the jury room at 1910 .. m, that
report was about to be made, the clos
ing events of the famous case moved
almost with cyclonic rapidity.
Jury Worked Quietly.
For q day and night there has been
absolute silence on the part Of the jury
Not q suggestion nor quest Of any sort
had come to the court and when Justice
Bowling came down to his chambers
late In the morning he announced that
he would not send for the jury until
then sent for him. The report OF last
night that the jury stood to- for ac-
Quittal on the ground of insanity per.
sisted up to the very time 1t announced
its intention of coming into court, and
all concerned with the case had aband-
oned hope of a definite conclusion OF
the second trial.
Few spectators were allowed In the
room and an incipient demonstration
was stopped by the officers when they
arrested Theodore Roosevelt Pell, the
well known amateur tennis player for
a burst of applause. Pell was fined $25
by Justice Bowling for contempt of
court. He had only a blank check book
with him and was held in custody until
friends could be summoned.
mIS. I1NGIyn AndW 4tl0 OOSAoh Aho"
were the only members of the prison
er's family in court when the verdict
was announced.
The young woman thanked individu-
| ally each member of the jury and fol-
| lowed Mr.. Littletop's example in shak-
ing hands with them. All Of the de-
| PENDANTS counsel was elated with the
verdict and declared 1t was just what
| they had hoped for. District Attorney
/ TaFnVOa almost a we'll nleASed
himself. He had contended from the
first that Thaw was medically If NOT
legally insane and his efforts this year
| had plainly not been directed toward
| verdict of murder in the first de-
gree.
The jurymen expressed their thanks
| to the Judge for his kindly interest in
all matters affecting their comfort. and
declared it had been a pleasure to
serve under such a fair-minded, just
and considerable jurlst.
Mrs. William Thaw. 1t was said to-
| night, had confidently expected that
| her son would be committed to some
private institution and it was to eff
feet this end that she insisted upon
habeas corpus proceedings being i'm
mediately begun. So far as lies within
his power District Attorney Jerome
will resist any effort to have Thaw
liberated at any time in the near
! future. Neither will he willingly con-
sent to his transfer to a sanitarium.
The verdict of insanity returned by
| the jury lent striking interest to let
| ter written some years ago by stan
| ford White to Howard Nesbit. a
! brother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and
! given out at the criminal court S
/ building today.
In this letter, the architect declared
Mrs. Nesbit the mother of the girl in
the case. should not worry over stories
| Thaw had told. He is not worth it.
| declared White. He still continues to
circulate the most terrible ones about
me. but where there is no foundation
| for them. silence Is the best answer
to such a crazy person. for he surely
must be that"
/ Word From Jury.
1t was l2;40 o clock this evening. just
twenty-five hours after the jury had
retired that the first word came from
their ROOM An officer was dispatched
to Justice bowling in his chamber
that the twelve men were ready to
| report. District Attorney jerome and
counsel for the defense quickly as
sembled and young Mrs. Thaw rushed
to her chair in the court room. Jus
| tice Bowling took his seat on the bench
at 1912 p. M. and IT was about five
| minutes later that the verdict was
announced. The Jurors as they took
their places in the hoX gave no hint
OF their conclusion. In fact it was
| generally believed that a disagreement
would be stated up to that time.
Jurors look upon the defendant. de-
PENDANT look upon the jurors" called
| Clerk Penny.
Gentlemen of the jury have you
/ agreed upon a verdict"
I'VE have" said foreman Gremmels
what say you. Is the defendant
| guilty or not guilty?"
Not guilty on the ground that he