Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-07
THAW'S FIGHT
TO REGAIN Ills
LIBERTY ENDS
SUBMISSION OF TESTIMONY IN
CASE CLOSES
ARGUMENTS OF ATTORNEY TO
BE GIVEN TODAY
Court Has Several Ways by Which
He Can Dispose of Future of
Slayer of Stanford
White
GBy Associated Press.l

White
LBy Associated Pressl
WHITE PLAINS, n. Y, Aug. g.
Harry X. ThaW's latest struggle TO re-
gain his freedom will end tomorrow,
The submission of testimony in his
hearing before Justice Mills closed to-
day, and all that remains is the final
arguments of the attorneys. Justice
Mills will file his decision with the
county clerk Thursday, August II.
Several possibilities confront Thaw.
The court may grant his plea and make
him absolutely free. 1t may decide he
has not established his sanity and re-
fuse TO Interfere, in which case the
state authorities probably will send him
back to MatteaWan hospital for the
criminal insane.
But Justice Mills has further discre-
tionary powers. He may feel that
Thaw's mental condition is still in
doubt and for that reason delay tinal
order, meanwhile paroling ThaW in the
custody of some officer or possibly on
his own recognizanCe in the care of his
family. Or, he may declare Thaw in
sane, but moved by his mothers COM
plant regarding his surroundings al
Matteawan. send him to some othel
state hospital not peopled with Grim
inals,
Thaw Optimistic
Thaw left the courtroom with jaunty
step. The strain of the past four weeks
during which he has submitted person
ally to fourteen hours of -eXamin-
alton was not apparent At no time
has he expressed anything but satisfac-
ton with the results and confidence
in the success of his case.
The evidence presented in behalf OF
Thaw closed with a dramatic outburst
by his mother, Mrs. Mary Copley ThaW
Her last words were a denunclatior
of District Attorney jerome. Earlier
in the day she had read list of names
distinguished in New York society
They were guests, she said, at a dinner
she gave in New York which Harry at
tended before his marriage.
I brought in the names of those who
attended that dinner to my son. she
said, because Of the statements of Mr.
Jerome regarding the company Harry
was accustomed to keep. | do not have
any especial enmity toward Mr.. jerome
but he certainly has not behaved in this
matter in a gentlemanly way or in a
Christian way Mr.. Jerome always
talked about Harrys being a frequenter
of the Tenderloin, when he knows as
well as anyone that my boy never went
to the Tenderloin until he met GER
tain person.
Gives Way to Tears
Mrs. Thaws testimony was frequent
ly interrupted by sobbing, as she de
scribed Harry's Surroundings at Mattea-
wan.
THAT place seemed to me like the
vestibule to the Internal regions she
said.
u,ba rriDciraI ,aUy witness todav was
Roger O'Mara, formerly chief of police
of Pittsburg He corroborated the
stories about Stanford White.
The greater part of the day was de-
voted to a examination of ThaW's
alienists. Jerome attacked the experts
with every device of the skilled cross
examiner. He reused the ire of Dr..
Rritton d. Evans by asking if he was
the subject of the denunciation of med
ical expert witnesses delivered yester-
day by Governor Franklin Fort of New
Jersey. DR.. Evans is superintendent
of the New Jersey state insane hospital
al Morris Plains.
The witness replied that he declined
to go into personalities.
DR.. Isham G. Harris Of the Pough-
keepsie state asylum also received a
grilling Both alenists stuck TO their
assertion that whatever ThaW's mental
condition might have been when he
shot Stanford White, he was now sane.
They left the stand mistaken.
District Attorney jerome asked De-
tectiye O'Mara If he had ever, before
the trial heard stories regarding i'm
moral practices by Thaw. Mr., O'Mara
said he had not.
Women Write Thaw
The detective said he had read many
letters from women TO ThaW's attor-
neys.
Cd by wanting some money, and l
would tear them up and throw them
away
Il did not get enough to pay my eX-
penses. | was not in ii for money. |
knew Mr. Thaw as boy and l came
down here Of my own accord TO DO
what l could
But how much did you get?' per
sisted jerome.
was here eleven weeks during the fust
trial and during part of the second
Were vou ever called on to settle
any matters in Pittsburg in which
Harry Thaw was involved?'
Never"
or elscwhere?"
mo, sir"
Did this story Of an actress, expert
enced in the ways of New York, that
one of the most prominent men in New
York tried to wrong her in a room IN
Madison Square garden tower, seem
true to your sophisticated mind?'
yes, I thought it was probable
O'Mara was excused and Mr.. Mors-
chauser called Mrs. Mary Copley IhaW
10 the stand. She was asked to eN-
plain Detective O'Mara's position.
EuIoeizes o'Mara
"Mr. OMara came into this case" ="
she said. because he said he wanted
TO do all he could for Mr. IhaWs boy
think his position in this case was
like millions of1ansels and sne QUOT
ed. "'They also serve who only stand
and wait" ,,....-
oO8 members of the family, including
every descendant of the prisoners
great erandfa ther The paper was
offered in evidence. She named two
cousins of Harry, William and Har-
riet Thaw. brother and sister-and said
these were the only cases of insanity
she had ever known in the family.
And they" she said, got their IN
sanity from their mother
Two members Of the Copley family
she said were epiIeptcs.
The witness explained Harry's alleged
wild actions at the wedding of his sis
ter Alice, to the Earl Of Yarmouth
She denied that her son had thrown
a loving cup out Of the window. The
cup was thrown by someone else, she
said i'm pursuance Of an English we'd
ding custom. Harry was very busy
that day she said, looking after the
luggage.
Stories Are Distorted
That's one of the thousands Of
stories that were built up out of dis
torted facts,