The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-08-20
Remanded to Asylum Whites
Slayer Says That He will
Try Higher Courts
HEARS VERDICT CALMLY
lie Is a Dangerous Man to the
State Says Justice Mill
His Decision

White Plains, N.Y.. Aug. 12.-
Harry G. Thaw's latest attempt to
gain his liberty met with complete
and dishartening defeat today when
Supreme Court Justice Isaac N. Mills
dismissed the writ of habeas corpus
and declared that the release of
the petitioner would be dangerous to
The public peace and safety" The
'igning of the order sending Thaw
back to MatteaWan, a formality
which is scheduled to take place to-
morrow morning in Justice Mills
chambers at Mount Vernon, is all
hat remains t cmplete the failure Of
his latest appeal to the courts.
There is no crumb of comfort for
fhaw in the 1000 word opinion
handed down by Justice Mills today.
All the contentious of his Old ad-
fersary, District Attorney Jerome
are supported and it is declared that
Thaw is still insane, still suffering
from persistent decisions and still as
much a paranoiac as on the day be
shot Stanford White. The order
tor Thaw's recommittment will be
presented to Justice Mills tomorrow
morning by Deputy Attorney Gene
raj Ezra P. Prentice and Attorney
M~orchauser will then have a chance
20 oppose it or strive for modification.
Such action, however, will, it is be-
lieved, be purely formal in view Of
mo Ha6jSiS,n nof1vn oS fhD o;o
handed down today.
Thaw, waiting in the White Plains.
Jail at the rear of the court house,
where the decision was filed, received
The news with outward calmness.
which appeared however more forced
than rel. The members of his fam
ny n his attorney seemed stunndd
by the thoroughness Of their defeat.
IhaW declined to give out any extcnd-
ed statement, %contenting himself
with the assertion hal he is not dis
heartened and would at once con-
finue Insight for liberty.
My ext effort" he said, "will
De centered upon the court of appeals
through which l expect to secure a
hearing before a jury in my effort
to have my commitment to Mattea-
van set aside
The case before the court of an
peals to which Thaw referred, is one
which has been under consideration
for sometime. 1t came before Justice
Mills last October when Thaw ap-
piled for an order setting aside his
commitment on the ground that the
court which had committed him, was
without power to issue such an or
Low spocvo ,,oh Or TIo nv 81 w. &C.,
was not on trial on a question of
sanity. At the same time, he asked
to have the question of his mental
ondition submitted to a jury. When
Justice Mills promptly denied this
application, the case was carried to
the APPELLATE division which sustained
Justice Mills. Thaw's attorney has
already made a second appeal and it
is upon this appeal that Thaw a W
us efforts will now be based.
Justice Mills in his opinion today
reaches three formal conclusions:
Thaw was insane when he killed
White; that he hasnot yet recovered
; and that the public peace and safe
ty would be endangered by the set
ting him at large. He upholds Dis
trict Attorney Jerome's contentious,
ludL 1udW sui CQoTlSuoS UcIUSlOnS
regarding the practices of Stanford
White and his associates. He char
acterizes Evelyn Thaw's tale of the
Madison Square Tower room and
similar stories about White told at
sanity hearing as wild and grossly
improbable, evidently to any moral
mind grossly exaggerated"
He asserts his belief in the testi-
inony Of Susan Merrill, regarding
'Thaw's alleged perverted practices
and points " contrast between
Thaw's %chivalrus attitude as a pro.
tector of young American woman
hood and his private life.
Justice Mills expressed deep sym
pathy for Mrs. Mary CopleyThaw,
the prisoners mother and her en-
position Of the horrors Of Mattea-
wan" on the stand evidently prompt
ed his recommendation that Thaw be.
allowed greater privileges at hat in-
stltution.