Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-23
Harry Tbaw's Mother IS
sues a Pamphlet
Asserting That District Attorney
Hounds Her Son.
Also AssaEIs justice Dowllng.-.She
Quotes Court Records.

New York, July 22.-The love Mary
Copley Thaw bears for her son. marry
Kendall Thaw, has caused her to pub
lish in a little pamphlet, entitled THE
Secret Unveiled" one of the bitterest
attacks on William Travers Jerome,
district attorney of New York county,
since his incumbency in office Mrs.
Thaw also assaiis Supreme Court JUS
tice Bowling. In her pamphlet she
quotes from Jeromes summing up for
the prosecution at the last trial of Har-
nv ,rhaw, when he bitterly denounced
Stamford White and his associates,
and says:
What / quote is significant and
makes his attitude since the acqujttal
incomprehensible unless he is influence
ed" The commitment of Thaw by JUS
tice bowling is called "tyrannical"
doubtless" Mrs. Thaw says. in
brief introduction to the pamphlet. Il
shall be criticised by my friends and
others for descending into the arena to
H. thus zOpenly combat the malevolent per-
~ nneltyg who has dominated my sons
case since before his acquittal by the
fury, and the commitment by Judge
Bowling.
"But exceptional conditions demand
exceptional treatment, and the fact
that Jerome has, on four occasions, left
- tbes quite sufficient responsibilities of
= At5vDwn district to pursue this case in
t6 one in Which, as he himself ac
NJ nayfSdges over his own signature, he
R4shaH no jurisdiction, Compels this I'M
~ usual procedure on my part"
Tie introduction is dated July Z, 1909
Z Mpt White Plains, and concerning it Mrs
'T'i1aw says:
"The body of the pamphlet was in
tended for use should Jerome succeed
in having another judge move the case
to New York. All know this would
never he agreed to by my son and his
counsel and that the motion was not
made in good faith. Delay is what was
aimed at, doubtless with the same hope
the district attorney 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.''
Mrs. Thaw sets forth two letters
signed by Jerome and addressed to-
Henry Marks and John Healy. who
had been committed to the Mattewan
State hospital. In these letters Jerome
tells them ne cannot assist in securing
their release. as he has no authority
in the cases. Mrs. Thaw comments
that although he has no jurisdiction in
these eases he asserts he has jurisdic-
tion In the case of Harry Thaw.
II ehaH reveal" Mrs Thaw says.
fSfsse&Ctain facts that will in measure
81 explain the vindictiveness shown my
81 son before and since his trial and ac-
quittal.
when / returned from Europe in
July, 1906, / found cowardly combi-
nation made up of men of professional
standing, together with disappointed
biackmailers, perjurers and others, all
working in the interests of the rich
ompanions of Stanford White. To pre-
vent trial which they feared would
result i'm exposure they set to work to
blacken the reputation of my son. an
average young man with a chivalrous
nature, as shown by his attempt to
break up these disreputable places
Then, something never before known
in any trial, the entire family living
and dead, was attacked by slanderous
falschoods. The influence at that time
was tremendously strong.
They pretended my son had delu-
sions regarding those three infamous
dens used by Stanford White and his
companions for disgusting orgies and
by White himself for secret assaults
on innocent little girls, whose bodies
and souls he ruined with the selfish
ness of the foul fiend himself
young girls were enticed into these
dens by the persons whom Jerome
terms these miserable degenerates.'
White searched for victims untouched
by viciousness-and for the Nervousness
of his crimes was that a pure girl or
child whose confidence he had won I'M
der the pretext of parental interest,
was. as rule, hopelessly lost BY vio-
lence, If necessary, they were doomed
to infamy in, this life and to eternal
perdition.
Like Baalam, who when hired by
Baak to curse Israel, instead Blessed
them altogether SO jerome, in his
speech to the last jury, was unex-
pectedly moved to reveal the truth.
He admitted all II. X. Thaw and An
thony Comstock had stated was true,
and himself added charges in terms
more severe than any they had used.
i have copy of the court record
with these denunciations, some of them
In language l would not care to repeat.
what ] quote is significant and makes
his attitude since the acquittal incoln-
prehensble. unless he is influenced"
Here Mrs. Tlpaw quotes at length
from Mr.. Jeromes summing up speech,
when he said that there was such a
place in 22d and gath streets as she
(Evelyn Nesbit Thaw) had described, Is
as true as you sit there and l stand
j here" and ending, even though Stan
ford White is Dead it never becomes
S, me, or any one else, to say one word
g In his defence
Mrs. Thaw republshes in her pam
phlet the arguments made by Colonel
franklin Bartlett, now dead, when
arguing Thaw's case before the APP
pelfaJe division of the supreme court.
Colonel Bartlett contended the commit
ment OF Thaw after his acquittal was
thing that would not have been to,-
Grated in England and America had it
happened in Russia to Russian j j.
Soner