The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-02-03


because I thought II did he would
shoot me-
Truly, that Is all remember of
the shooting itself. only remember
that hideousIy, hatefuIIy, leerinq face,
and after that standing in the garden
with the crowd around me and becom-
ing conscious that ! had used my
pistol.
Jerome added Thaw. with tre-
mendous earnestness as he pulled at
cigar. made great speech for me.
Truly, he did, In way he has taken
all the wind ont OF my sails Because
he has admitted that the things that
| declared about Stanford White and
his crowd were true. am no sir
Galahad myself, but White and his
crew were little less than fiends.
Expected to Die.
when | found that had killed
White | made up my mind that |
would probably suffer the death pen
atty. ] really did. ! knew little of
law. knew that IL one killed an
other he was- usually killed for II -hin--
much care. When | made up my mind
W hight III lily lllt dS ndIu DIS L COuiu
was when things were shaped to push
me into madhouse and protect from
just exposure the villainies OF the gang
of men, the vile actions OF whose
chief had driven me insane.
''The efforts to throw the cloak OF
suppression over the facts that called
for the indignation OF every decent
man, in this case. was thing which
| made up my mind to resist. | was
willing that the world should know
that these things had made me a mad
man, but did not want the world to
regard me as fool. When I went to
Comstock and Jerome and laid be-
fore them the unutterable crimes
against innocence that had come to
my knowledge, I knew what was
talking about
81 cannot understand how Jerome
declared that II is only now that he
has. come to believe that my charges
were true. All these things had been
laid open for his investigation at the
last trial, had they not? If he had
merely read the newspapers he must
have known.
"Of one thing had made up my
lllIlu. NOulu IlOt ult DtipIt the
world knew that IT was neither idiotic
notions nor mere sensual jealousy
that drove me 10 an insanity out OF
which crne the killing OF Stanford
White.
Admits He's No Saint.
"As to those hideous $tories that
were circulated about me, which Mr..
Jerome seems still to believe, | want
to say to the public that they were all
lies. am no saint. | suppose have
been somewhat wild. But let me tell
you something--in some ways the rici
are as helpless as the poor.
"Any young man OF wealth will find
himself subtly and vilely slandered by
creatures like Abe HummeI, with
Matchmaking end In View"
Thaw's attorneys today outlined the
campaign to free their client from the
asylum for the criminal insane at Mat
teawan, to which he was committed
after acquittal OF the murder charge
on the ground OF insanity.
His lawyers, mother and wife pre-
pared to visit him In the asylum to-
day, and to complete the plans for his
release. The acquitted man IS con-
stantly urging haste. and says that n
his Dresent\ counsel will not act I'm
mediately. he will obtain other adj
visers.
Hsbeas Corpus First.
The first Step VIII be TO get writ
OF kabeas corpus. This may be grant
ed by any supreme court Justice. and
Thaw will be produced In court Fol
lowing this will come as bitter a con-
test as the trials themselves. District
Attorney Jero.ae will use every force
az hts command to keep the slayer a
prisoner.
MATTEAwAN. ". v, Feb. B.
Tucked away In the observation ward
OF the asylum for the criminal insane,
tCossfsued on seventh Pagc.)
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