The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-07
TnAWCONFIDENT
'OF HIS RELEASE
Testimony Taking at Sanity
r. Hearing Closed.
LAWYERS ARGUE CASE

Mrs. Mary CopIey Thaw Creates Ora.
matte Situation by Bitter penun-
clation Of District Attorney Jerome
For Alleged Persecution Of Her
son--Reads List Of Society People
Who Attended Dinner In His Hon.
or at New York-Alienlsts drilled.
White Plains, N. Y. Aug. IT,
Harry X. Thaw's latest struggle to
regain his freedom will end today.
The submission Of testimony in his
hearing before Justice Isaac n. Mills
has closed. and all that remains is
the final arguments of the attorneys.
Justice Mills will file his decision
with the county clerk here on the
morning of Thursday. Aug. IL.
Several possibilities confront Thaw.
The court may grant his plea and
make him absolutely free. II may de-
eide that he has not established his
sanity and refuse to interfere, in
which case the state authorities will
probably send him back to Mattea-
wan hospital for the criminal insane.
But Justice Mills has further discre-
tionary powers. He may feel that
the young mans mental condition is
still In doubt and for that reason de-.
lay final order, meanwhile paroling
Thaw In the custody of some officer
nncQfh1N htu
the care of his family. Or he may
declare Thaw insane, but, moved by
his mothers complaint regarding his
surroundings at Matteawan, send him
to some other hospital not peopled
by criminals.
Thaw left the courtroom with
jaunty step. The strain of the last
four weeks, during which he has sub
mitted personally to four hours of
cross-examination, was not apparent
either In his face or his bearing. AT
no time during the proceedings has
he expressed anything but satisfac-
ton with the result and confidence in
the success Of his cause. 81 am
sure" he said that I shall be free"
The evidence presented in behalf
OF Thaw closed with a dramatic out
burst by his mother, Mrs. Mary Cop
ley Thaw. who was the final witness
Her last words were a denunclation
OF District Attorney Jerome. Earlier
in the day she had read list of
names distinguished in New York So
ciety. They were guests, she said, at
a dinner she gave In New York which
Harry attended before his marriage.
In concluding her testimony, she re-
ferred to this list of names. Z,
81 brought in the names of those
who attended that dinner to my son."
she said, because OF a statement OF
Mr.. Jerome regarding the company
Harry was accustomed to keep. lido
not have any special enmity toward
Mr.. Jerome, but he certainly has not
behaved In this matter In gentle.
manly way, nor In Christian way.
Mr.. jerome always talked about Har.
ry's being frequenter of the tender.
loin, waen he knows. as well as any
one, that my hoy never went to the
until he met certain per
son who dropped him down"
That" said Attorney Morschauser,
ENDS our case"
On the stand Mrs. Thaw's testi. /
mony was again frequently interrupt
ed by sobbing. as she described Har-
ry's surroundings at Matteawan.
That place seemed to me like the
vestibule to the Internal regions"
she said solemnly.
The principal new witness was
Roger O'Mara, formerly chief OF po-
lice of Pittsburg, and recently en-
ployed by the Thaws as detective
IN Harry's case. He testified In cor