Evening star., 1909-07-12
MALEVOLENT PERSONALITY
Says Blackmailers Try to Railroad
Whites Slayer to Asylum.
LETTERS TO ATTORNEY JEROME
Charges Him With Bad Faith-Says
Son Is Average Young Man With
Chivalrous Nature.

just finished writing a booklet on the case
| of her son. whose trial on habeas corpus
proceedings came up before Justice Mills
at White Plains, n. Y, this morning.
This publication is now in the hands of
the printers. and will be brought out and
placed on sale in various parts of the
| country some day this week.
1t consists of fully 5000 words and also
a picture of Mrs. Thaw. In some parts
1t is particularly bitter. and she arraigns
in strong terms men in high places who,
she claims, were in league to prevent her
SON even securing trial. but bent on
railroading him to an insane asylum.
She refers to these men as men high in
! professional life = friends of Stanford
! White. She refers to them as blackmail-
| erS. perjurers and the like.
! She cnaracterZes her son as IAN aver
| age young man with chivalrous nature
as shown by his efforts to break up dis
| reputable Places
She points out that Jerome's speech to
the jury in the last trial is vindication
of her sons efforts, and says that while
1t was pretended that ThaW had de-
lusions regarding these Infamous dens.
the places existed.
The Introduction to the pamphlet fol-
lows:
| Mrs. Thaw's Story.
Doubtless 1 will be criticised by my
friends and others for descending into
the arena to thus openly combat the
malevolent personality who has dominat-
ed my sons case since before his acquit-
tai by the jury and the commitment by
Judge Bowling.
| But exceptional conditions demand eX-
ceptional treatment and the fact that
| District Attorney Jerome has on four oc-
| casions left the quite sufficient RESPONSE
| Dilities of his own district to pursue this
case into a district within which, as he
| himself acknowledges with his own sigma
ture (see below, he has no jurisdiction,
compels this unusual procedure on my
part.
THE body of the pamphlet was intend
| ed for use should he succeed in having
another judge move the case to New
York. All know this would never be
agreed to by my son and his counsel.
| and that the motion was not made in
| good faith. Delay is all that was aimed
at. doubtless with the same hope that
Jerome expressed. when. after the first
trial. he said he would delay the second
| trial in the hope that Thaw would go
crazy in the Tombs.' l find it very diff
| cult to write dispassionately of SO palpa-
Jble crimes against justice and the con-
stitutional rights of American citizens
| Correspondence Given.
| Mrs. Thaw quotes the following:
From Mrs. Thaw's communica ton to
| the newspapers, June 49,
"'Cnless this persecution is based upon
the meanest animosity, or he is acting
| for others, Mr.. Jerome will not again
attempt to hrowbeat the judge at White
Plains tomorrow
The following two letters. on official
paper with his own signature. make it
perfectly clear that Mr.. Jerome Is labor
ing under no delusion as to his duties.
and therefore he must be actuated either
4 by malice or is catering to rich evildoers.
| THE first letter, dated June . is as
| follows:
Henry Marks. Esq. Matteawan State
| Hospital, Fishkill-on-Hudson. New
i York:
Dear Sir-I have your letter of May
80. Since your conviction l have no fur
ther jurisdiction in your case. Very truly
yours,
WILLIAM TRAvERs JEROME, Dis
trict Attorney
The second letter. dated June IA. to
John Healy. ESQ.,, Matteawan State
| Hospital, Fishkil-on-H Hudson. n. Y:
| Dear Sir-I have your letter of June
Il asking me to assist you to secure a
release. After your commitment the dis
trict attorney has no authority in your
case whatsoever Very truly yours,
WILLIAM TRAvERS JEROME Dis
trict Attorney"
'The Secret Unveiled"
Immediately following the introduction
and under the head of The Secret In
veiled,'' Mrs. Thaw continues:
| Having determined to stay near my son
until he is released from this illegal i'm
prisonment, my family and l waited hope
| fully four months for the decision of the
| appellate division, only to be bitterly dis
appointed when it came.
| Certain facts should be known that WILL
Il m a
toward my son and the yindictiye perse-
cution he has endured.
When l returned from Europe In 1906
found cowardly combination made up
OF men Of professional standing, together
with disappointed blackmailers. perjurers
and others, all working in the interests of
the very rich companions of Stanford
i White. To prevent trial. which they
feared would result in exposure, they
set to work to blacken the character Of
my son, an average young man with a
lchivalrous nature, as shown by his at
tempt to break up these disreputa BILE
places. Then, In order to diScredit any
thing said in contradiction, the family.
living and dead. was attacked by SANDER
lous falsehoods. as never before known in
any trial The influence at that time was
tremendously strong.
/ They pretend that my son has insane
delusions regarding those three n
famous dens and their uses. But. like
| Balaam, who. when hired by Balak -
curse Israel. instead ''DloSSed them altO-
| gether." So Jerome. in his speech to
| the last jury. was unexpectedly moved
| to reveal the truth. He admitted all H.
X. Thaw and Anthony Comstock had
| stated was true, and himself added
| charges in terms more severe than any
they had used. Since January / have had
a copy of the court records with these
denunciations. some of them in Ian
guage l would not care to repeat. What
/ quote is significant. and makes his
attitude since the acquittal incompre-
| hensible
For example: There were places in
I'D street and oath street main
| tanned by lot of miserable degener-
| ates. some of whom are still living to-
day in this town.
Comments on Jerome"
The next subhead is entitled Com
ments on Jerome. Under this head
Mrs. Thaw prints the remarks of the
district attorney. in which he is quoted
as saying that aliensts were 4 disgrace
10 the administration of the law.
Then follows letter written by FL. Is.
Thaw to his own alienists while Thaw
was an inmate of the MatteaWan State
Hospital. This letter Mrs. Thaw has re-
fused to make public until the pamphlet
appears. 1t was never sent to the physi-
clans. because Thaw refused to allow
the hospital authorities TO read it, and
consequently 1t would have been against
the rules of the institution to have il
mailed.
An affidavit from President Patten of
Princeton Theological Seminary. made
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