The Detroit times., 1908-01-15
CRUCIFIxlOh OF TAAM'S
SElF-ESTEEM A PICTURE
PITIFUL AND DEPRESSING
n, uoRoTHy DIX.

A RI.ACK day IN Harry Thaw's life
n MAS yesterday All day long ne
sat amidst the dust and ashes OF NJ
initiation. his pride and VANITY s LAY
! tered 10 atoms about him. All DAY iohs
/ ne listened as his lawyer lterateu anu
! reitei ated that he MAS m1ntaliN 1th-
! ct.rn and proved by witness after wa (,
ness that he had always been regarde
as abnormal Irrational, ihpeollS' a."
| object OF pity about him -,
IL was ordeal--the crC 'inNion OF ser
love and Harry Thaw ninched hetore ~
as IL every word had been a blow OF a
hammer driving In the nails that las,
tened him TO his cross: HIS PaLilu
skin turned 20 a gray WhHe. fls Aae
could not stop the trembling OF his
long upper iip, AS he set * aBainSt
its fellow. tits restless hAnds th.'t
are never still for q single nlhN.e
picked aimlessly at his coat. his hair
his papers upon the table. His-tt tFi
broodiag eyes sank upon the hoor as II
ne could never raise them aEalh. A.
most IL seemed as II he would rather
have died for his crime than 20 nave
purchased his freedom at such price
Torture Unspeakabie.
Probably not even the most modest
and Intelligent among as could Dear
with equanimity TO near what our az
Thaw, with his inflated SELF esteem,
with MIS- exaggerated sense OF ms own
abilities and power and position IL was
hear the ugly naked truth about him.
self and his, and 10 know that with al
his money he had not been 50 much
envicd as pitIed.
witnesses pieced together, bit by bit,
OF family cursed By the talnt OF III
sanity and a boy c6f7Tirfy fff-o tfie world
10 inherit the good with the eNil or MS
forbears. the piled up millions OF old
VIM Thaw, and along with them the
shattered nerves and disordered brain
and melancholtc temperament that
both his mothers ana his Iathors peo-
pie bequeathed him, -
There was no installing the attor-
neys intention. From the nrst time
Harry Thaw had no chance TO escape.
He brought here from Pennsylvania
and Virginia the physicians who ha
tended the members or the Copley ana
Thaw families who were insane, or I'M
beetle
Most OF these mems testimony was
not allowed 10 be given under the rule
which prevents a physician from re-
patient without that patients con-
sent, but after all, jury is only hui
man and the jury sensed the full trag-
edy OF the men and women who had
gone before Harry Thaw and some OF
whom had spent 80 and 40 years locked
up in a madhouse and had died there
without recovering their reason.
Same In HES Youth.
The one notable thing In the testi-
mony OF all those who knew Thaw in
his youth and nursed and doctored him
I'm his illnesses was the constant ref
erence 10 his staring eyes. his mirthless
smile and his twitching face. These
have not changed. YoD may see the
same staring haunted eyes. the same
mirthless smile today In the court
room on his face as his teacher and his
sick nurse and his old friends saw in
his boyhood They are wild eyes now
as they were Wild eyes then. for IL
Harry Thaw was demented in his youth
he is demented now and has not found
the herb. or remedy that can cure HIM.
Those eyes are wells OF melancholy
sad as death and deep as human dread
can fathom. for in them is fear be-
yond that OF what man can do To him
the fear OF being found OUT To be
mad That 10 the secret OF Thaws