Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-02-03
THAW IN MADHOUSE
Slayer of Stanford White Is Ac-
 quilted as a Lunatic.
COMMITTED TO WATERMAN.
Feels Humiiated In Asylum, but Is Confident That He Will Be Free Within the Next Few Weeks. Sleeps Near Chinese Murderer.

fine place alongside of the TOmbs," remarked Harry K. Thaw today after breakfasting at the knife and fork table in the State Hospital For the Criminal Insane, to which he was con- mitted as dangerous lunatic by Jus tice Bowling after a New York jury acquitted him of the murder of Stan ford White on the ground that he was mentally unbalanced at the time he shot and killed the noted architect.
 1haw feels confident that he will be a free man within the next few weeks. This belief was strengthened by visit paid to him at the asylum by Dr. Brit ton D. Evans of White Plains. \. J., and Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New York. Both a!ienists were employed oy the defense in both trials of Thaw, and while they evaded questions re- 2arding their presence here, it is said they came at the instigation of Mrs. William Thaw to examine her son and be prepared with evidence when habeas corpus, proceedings are brought Cp to liberate him.
 Slayer Feels Humbled.
 Ihaw is anything but pleased with his environment He feels humiliated at being compelled to sit at the knife and fork table with the fifty-four men who are allowed this privilege and to exercise under the scrutiny of the TS0 men who are confined in the institu- tionA
 IR gloomy loneliness Thaw sat most of the day. for among the inmates of the ward he was stranger. Not q friendly hand was extended to him in greeting, not a cheering word did he hear. Apart from his talks with the asylum physician and two alienists who visited him, Thaw heard only the vain chatter of men living in a state of exaltation or other men depressed be- cause of prosecutions to which they imagined they were being subjected.
 Slept Near Chinese Murderer.
 Certain of these men imagined them selves possessed of wealth that made the Pittsburger appear d pauper in their eyes. Others thought themselves great generals, owners of wonderful in ventions and rulers of the world. There were men in the ward who con- plained almost necessarily of imagi- nary pains that were being inflicted by imaginary enemies. To the chat ter of all these mental derelicts Thaw was compelled to listen. He kept aloof from them, but he had to remain in the same room, and it was impossi- ble for him to avoid hearing the ;. strange gabble. As no arrangement had been made to provide special meals for him Thaw had to eat the asylum fare and to sit with other in- mates at one of the long tables in the dining room.
 When Thaw arrived in the insane He wanted a private room and asked that his belongings be taken to the room, but he was informed he would have to sleep on a cot in dormitory. A foot away on another cot lay Quinn bo Appo. a Chinese who killed a prize fighter thirty-two years ago and has been an inmate of the institution ever since. Tn the row behind Thaw slept . negro who also had killed man.
 Baked at Going to Asylum.
 Thaw's lawyers had a difficult time to induce him to yield to the mandate of the court It was only after his chief counsel, Martin W. Littleton, told him that there was such a thing as public sentiment in New York and that it would not be wise to defy it that the murderer consented to leave the Tombs. The change was made in lees than four hours after the jury acquitted him.
 That verdict was reached when the jury had been twenty-five hours in se- cret deliberatiOn. On the first ballot four had voted for conviction. They were gradually won over by the ma jority. and the last man yielded only after the fourteenth ballot had been taken.
 When the verdict was recorded. Judge Bowling immediately commit ted Thaw to Matteawan as a danger ous maniac on the ground that the testimony of the defendants own ex- perts and other witnesses had showed that manic depressive insanity sub jected its victim to recurrent attacks. during which be is likely to commit murder or suicidr
 The order is that he he held there "until discharged by due course Of law"
 Says He's Sane.
 ca the trip up the banks O. the Hudson to Fishkill. where it was nec- cssary to leave the train and take 2 carriage for Mlsteawan. Thaw receiv. ei the newspaper men and gave out & brief statement
 Il am perfectly sana.- he ssid in his nsrvous way. but am going to Mat tcawan on the advice of my counsel to remain until necessary action can he taken to prove nc sane Ny greatest zegrpt is that I have to be separated longer from my wife and relatives
 While on the trip Thaw did not once esk any questions about the institu- rIcn in which he was alSOlt to be in- esreerated but he talked sxCitedIv with Mir. O-RpilIy and Nr Peabody about methods to obtain his release and the time when an application would be made.
 Thaw and his Party Isff their spe ssaI trala d -sIzHI Landing jus h~fo-p { o'clock. Before driving ths