The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-26
THAW CAUSES ROW.
THE MILLIONAIRE PATIENT CREATES WILD SCENE AMONG ms
COMPANION MADMEN-1HE ROUTINE OF ms LIFE AND THE
TERRIBLE AMONG WHICH PASSED MArTEA-


MATTEAWAN, n. V February b.
Harry X. Thaw, brought here Saturday
afternoon following his acquittal in
New York of the murder of Stanford
White on the ground that he did not
know the nature Of his act OF that it
was wrong has passed two nights in
this house of 900 doors and 1000 900
voices" III luck was his portion at
the outset, as he was assigned a cot be-
side Quimbo Apo, a Chinese murderer
who slew Paul Kelly, a prize fighter,
thirty years ago, and for an hour or
two was compelled to listen to the
maudln rawlings of the Old celestial,
who imagines he is the owner OF a
hundred or two $lO,OOO,OOO hotels and
all that goes with them.
Thaw has already Been told that he
cannot smoke cigarettes, that he can
not use any money to secure privileges
within the asylum and that he will be
treated precisely as are the other 600
inmates.
When the door OF the asylum clang-
ed shut behind Harry Thaw he found
himself in a scantily furnished hall
with hardly an article of furniture 70
relieve the barrenness but spOtless
clean and white In front of HIM a
locked door barred further progress.
To the right a door opened into an
office; to his left a door opened into
the receiving room and off this latter
are the doors in which the patients are
weighed, examiner and their records
kept.
After his clothes were taken from
him, his measurements taken, an eXa-
mination made of him and his crime
recorded-fOr all the inmates of Mat
teawan are criminals, most of them
murderers-the new arrival was taken
! to bathroom and after he was bathed,
was given a suit of brown clothes, dur
able and ready made. A door in front
| of him opened-always in front of him
for there are doors everywhere-and
an attendant ushered him into another
room. Thus Thaw was taken from
room to room until he reached the dor
mitory.
Here is a cot for each patient. A
pair of heavy blankets and two sheets
are folded neatly on a mattress and a
pillow and comforter complete the
equipment On one OF these cots Harry
Thaw has slept two nights and each
morning he rolled up his mattress,
folded his blankets and sheets and left
them as he first found them.
The programme which Thaw must
follow each day is as follows:
6 a. m.-Arise, make bed and dress.
$50 a. m.-March to exercise room
and exercise for short time.
7 a. m.-March to dining table and
breakfast at a table that seats forty
Dining room has capacity Of $50 per
sons. The breakfast as usual will
consist of bread, butter, coffee. oatmeal
and milk and hash.
a. m.-He may ask permission tC
do any work that may strike his
fancy-if he fancies such work as
sweeping halls, washing windows anc
the like. 1t will be along time before
he will be trusted to cut grass-morC
than a year, anyhow Or he may steI
to the library and get from the library
= book Or he may sit down anC
write
1890 o'clock-Dinner. Thaw vii
walk to the dining room again anC
pass an hour there discussing any toplc
he likes and a menue like this: Vege
table soup. with meat bread, pudding
no coffee no tea.
1870 p m.-He may return to his
work or enter any one of the man!
recreation rooms, where he will fine
persons to play cards, checkers, ches
or any of a dozen games with him
The afternoon is his.
$50 p. m.-Once more he will si
down to a menu something like this
Bread, butter, tea, stewed prunets, cole
/. beef.
NEW YORK, February 4.-Harry K
Thaw's ungovernable temper got thu
better of him shortly after midnign
this morning and he wandered iron
his private room connecting with tn
general ward, where fifty-eight Of thu
supposed harmless patients are con
fined in the Matteawan asylum for tn
criminal insane, and created such
panic among the other inmates tina
guards had to be called and the in
mates restrained by force Thaw ha
been sulking since the visit Of his wifi
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, yesterday after
noon. Her collapse from coming il
contact with gibbering madmen ha
r reduced him to an almost similar state
When Thaw went back to the war
he was ugly and nervous. The othe
patients, many of whom believe the
- are millionaires, had been told that
real millionaire was among them an
- they began to make Thaw the butt {
their jests, The insane chatter c