Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-23
MRS. THAW GIVES
HISTORY OF CASE
MOTHER OF STANFORD WHITES
SLAYER ISSUES PAMPHLET DE-
NOUNCING PROCEDURE.
Charges That Whites Friends Were in
League to Prevent Fair Trial
of Her Son.
sCATHES JUSTICE DowLING's ACT

NEW YORK, July 22.-Mrs. Mary.
Jopley Thaw, mother of Harry Thaw,
aow in the White Plains Jail awaiting
he trial to determine his present sanity,
las issued a little booklet in which she
gives a resume Of the different pro-
ceedings in court in which her son has
oeen involved. She makes an attack
III District Attorney Jerome, criticises
insanity experts and calls Justice Dow
ing Il tyrant.
Blackmail Is Charged.
The booklet is printed on heavy white
paper. On the first page are these words:
The secret unveiled. \ pamphlet by
Mary Copley Thaw. Copyrighted by
Mary c. Thaw, July, 1909"
The following are some of the inter
asting extracts from the document:
The secret unveiled | shall reveal
certain facts that will in measure eX-
plain the vindicCiveneSs shown my son
before and since his trial and acquittal.
When L returned from Europe i'll July,
1906, l found a cOwardly combination
made up of professional men standing
together with disappointed blackmailerS,
W
interests of the very rich companions of
Stanford White to prevent a trial, which
they feared would result in exposure.
Whole Family Attacked.
''They set to work to blacken the repu-
tation of my son, an average young man
with a chivalrous nature, as shown by
his attempt to break up these disrepu-
table places. Then something never be-
fore known in any trial; the entire fam
ily-living and dead-was attacked by
slanderous falsehoOds. The influence at
that time was tremendously strong. They
pretended that my son had decisions re
garding Stanford White and his compan-
ions and the places he called dens.
Young girls were lured by their orien-
tai magnifcence into these dens. White
searched for victims untouched by vicious
ness, and the Nervousness of his crimes
was that a child whose confidence he
had won under preteXt of parental inter
est was, as a rule, hOpelessly lost"
Scathing for Bowling.
Mrs. Thaw then quotes from the late
Col. Franklin Bartlett's argument before
the appellate division in reference TO JUS
tee DOWling's commitment of Thaw to
MatteaWan asylum for the safety of the
public.
The opinion of Judge Bowling was
based on the testimony of one of the
most unreliable witnesses in the case,
whose testimony was afterward riddled
by the testimony of Rev. Prof Christ
of the Western Theological seminary at
Pittsburg.
"What an cutlery such a sentence
would create throughout civilized Eu-
rope There could be no denunciatiOn
too severe for Russian judge who pro-
nounceG it. There could be found no
newspaper in the whole of the United
States or in the whole of Europe, out
side of Russia. which would dare ven
ture to approve or sustain sentence so
unjust and cruel and so violative of ev-
cry constitutional safeguard.
Ruling Tyranrlcal.
"Wen do l recall that gloomy after
noon of February /, 1908, when, i'll in
my hotel, l and my daughter waited
with tense anxiety for the verdict 1t
is not necessary to describe our feeling,
nor is it possible for anyone to con-
ceive of the horrible shock when, less
than an hour after we were telephOne1
of his acquittal and while we were OK
pecting him TO enter the apartment ut
any moment, came the fateful message
OF this tyrannical procedure by the trial
Judge. SO summary We're the proceed
ings that my son was not permitted to
return to his cell or gather up his papers
nor was any time allowed him to see
his family.
Every doctor who has examined my
son-seventeen in all-during three years
agrees with the decision of that eminent
and able commission which. in April,
1907, said that Thaw was and is
sane "